Tag: IDC
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What people use sovereign cloud for, and why
IDC survey data on sovereign cloud: more than half of organizations already use it, 72% say their interest has risen in the past six months, and 42% are now running AI workloads on sovereign infrastructure. Here’s what they’re using it for, what’s driving adoption, and where current offerings still fall short.
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Claude market penetration in enterprises still low
Enterprises, IDC says, remain largely unsold on Anthropic’s Claude models, with only 19 percent using them extensively and 25 percent actively evaluating them. OpenAI and Google are better represented in enterprises, with about 42 percent and 38 percent of organizations” This means there’s lots of “headspace” to grow revenue, or disappointing and incomprehensible ROI, i.e.,…
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Large enterprises continue to run a hybrid model for the foreseeable future. After more than 15 years of cloud migration, just over 54% of production workloads have been moved to the public cloud.” IDC, November 2025 survey 🔗 Enterprises Continue to Leverage Both Private and Public Cloud as Data Grows
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Relevant to your interests, Monday
I’m at cfgmgmtcamp today and tomorrow, in Ghent. Later today, I have a talk, and then a live Software Defined Interviews recording, with returning guest Andrew Clay Shafer. Americans can expect to live longer than ever, per the latest CDC data – ”newborn Americans in 2024 could expect to live to 79 on average” CIOs…
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Virtual machines still run the world
The above is from a recent IDC white paper. Container use is growing. Even then, VMs still run everything. Most of those containers run in VMs: IDC forecasts that 85% of containers will run in VMs in 2028. Meanwhile, there is a huge installed base of traditional applications in VMs that will be around for…
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There’s probably around 50 million developers world-wide, and 20.5m professional developers. That’s what I’d start saying after seeing a chart from IDC’s September 2025 developer study update. They forecast it to be ~59 million in 2029. If you want to be very precise, a breakdown of the survey puts “professional developers” at around 20.8m in…
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The platform that needs a platform
How big is the Kubernetes market? Here’s an estimate from a recent IDC PDF: The rapid growth of cloud-native applications, driven by DevOps, containers, and microservices, has made container orchestration a critical capability because containers are challenging to manage at scale without an orchestration layer. This trend is driving significant market growth, with IDC forecasting…
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New tech requires new governance
IDC predicts that by 2027, half of all AI-enabled enterprise applications will require new oversight positions dedicated to governance, risk, and accountability. Predictions are mostly (only) valuable to see what someone is thinking and hoping to be true – their in-head-vibes. Here, you can see what one of the IT thought-leaders will be thought-leadering in…
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“Come on down and chum some of this shit.”
Everyone needs to stop thinking about enterprise AI as a way to fire people and think about how to use AI to make people more productive: Forrester’s analysis found that using AI for financially driven layoffs can backfire: 55 percent of employers regret laying off workers because of AI. More people in charge of AI…
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getting enterprise eyeballs is difficult
“According to IDC research, 72% of tech marketers say creating original, differentiated thought leadership is a top challenge. Even more cite difficulty connecting that content to real business outcomes. 37% of CMOs say creating a unified, omnichannel customer experience will have the greatest influence on their marketing strategy over the next 12 to 18 months.”…
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Invisible to the robots
In my searches/research, analysts like Gartner, IDC, and Forrester are invisible to ChatGTP, Claude, etc. The robots will find the reports licensed by vendors – I’m guessing only if they don’t require leadgen. The analysts should probably start publishing some juicy abstracts with just enough numbers, analysis, and advice to get into the training data…
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Can you add AI to existing application – it’s unsatisfying…so far
If you program enterprise apps, it’s likely in Java. And if you Java, you probably use the Spring Framework. Come to the Spring conference by the Spring people, SpringOne, August 25th to 28th in sunny Las Vegas, Nevada. There’s several sessions posted now: you can see there’s stuff from foundational Spring stuff, AI and MCP,…
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Broadcom’s answer to VMware pricing outrage: You’re using it wrong – IDC’s EMEA senior research director, Andrew Buss: “All our surveys in EMEA in the past five years have shown a majority preference to run workloads in private IT foremost, with around a third of organizations being quite balanced between making use of both public…
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A New Look, A Clear Path – New IDC branding, logo, etc.
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IDC Publishes New, Actionable AI Research at Annual ‘Directions’ Event – “Currently, 51% of businesses are taking an opportunistic approach to AI, but there’s a significant trend toward more structured and strategic adoption. The research highlights how organizations are increasingly viewing AI as a fundamental transformation of business, operating, and organizational models. Governance, knowledge, and…
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For enterprise AI, avoid repeating the wasted DIY year
You’re about to waste at least a year and millions of dollars on enterprise AI projects. Here’s how to avoid it. Here’s a new article on enterprise AI from me and a co-worker. As with most maturity models, it’s 2/3 prescriptive and 1/3 “here’s some ideas that might help.” A bit of map and territory.…
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IDG to divest Foundry, what’s next for IDC? – Forester and IDC merging would be awesome. They’re have great qualitative and quantitative coverage. And if they breathed new life into the Wave, maybe by adding in IDC’s market estimates, that’d be interesting.
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That which never moved can never move back
The Cloud Equilibrium As you know, I enjoy the impossible chase to track down the elusive chart that shows how many workloads are running on private cloud1 versus public cloud. I last rounded up my findings in July, 2024. Of particular interest is the IDC CloudPulse report. I don’t have access to the most recent…
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IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Cloud 2024 Predictions – “Application modernization has been a nagging problem for decades but has recently emerged as a critical concern for enterprises, with around 62% of organizations worldwide considering it a high or top priority today, and over 70% expecting it to be a high or top priority in the next…
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IDC #US52372824 (June 2024). Source: IDC DevOps Survey, – “79.1% of respondents are extending, using, or piloting Wardley Mapping to diagram the value chain and application components, demonstrating the value it can add to strategic application planning.” IDC #US52372824 (June 2024). Source: IDC DevOps Survey, November 2023, n = 311. // I never would have…
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