According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, the server market reached a record $112.4 billion dollars in revenue during the third quarter of the year. This quarter showed another high double digit-growth rate by reaching a year-over-year (YoY) increase of 61% in vendor revenue compared to the same quarter of 2024. Revenue generated from x86 servers increased 32.8% in 2025Q3 to $76.3 billion while Non-x86 servers increased 192.7% YoY to $36.2 billion.

As AI-driven technologies propel global digital advertising revenue toward a projected $900bn in 2025, hyperscale cloud service providers are emerging as the critical infrastructure powering this growth. In this analysis, Omdia explores how cloud vendors are becoming indispensable partners for social media, retail media, and streaming platforms, enabling the advanced campaign optimization and personalization strategies that are reshaping the industry.

AI is poised to deliver a massive employment surge, with the global economy projected to create 170 million new roles by 2030, a net gain of 78 million jobs, according to the World Economic Forum (WEF). However, this historic jobs boom faces a critical systemic failure: the Skills Gap. Public data confirms the crisis is immediate: 63% of employers report skills shortages are blocking growth, and workers with proven AI skills already command a 56% wage premium, more than double last year’s figure. The real story isn't job creation, but the race to upskill nearly 60% of the global workforce to fill these new roles before automation makes the old ones obsolete.

A Gartner survey of 1,576 U.S. citizens found that despite this being the top identified concern, net citizen trust in the government’s handling of personal data is at 41%.

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker, the external OEM enterprise storage systems (ESS) market grew 2.1% year-over-year (YoY) in the third quarter of 2025 reaching $8.0 billion in vendor revenue. From the historical perspective, this level of growth is solid for the mature ESS market but still is eclipsed by the high double-digit growth in the server market, which is driven by investments in accelerated server infrastructure.

The survey of 1,074 investment professionals across 26 countries and territories found that technology was expected to be two to three times as likely to attract the most investment than the next three sectors. Asset and wealth management came in next at 25%, followed by power and utilities (24%) and banking and capital markets (19%).

Gartner predicts that only a handful of automotive companies will maintain ambitious AI initiatives after the next five years. Organizations with strong software foundations, tech-savvy leadership, and a consistent very long-term focus on AI will pull ahead from the rest, creating a competitive AI divide.

The ISG Buyers Guide™ for Revenue Performance Management (RPM), produced by ISG Software Research, provides rankings and ratings of 15 software providers and their products to support comprehensive revenue management across multiple channels. The research also examines incentive compensation management and sales performance management software. It finds that revenue performance systems are integrating all aspects of revenue operations, including managing territories, quotas, incentives and planning, to enable better decision-making and more consistent business growth. The ISG Buyers Guide™ for Sales Performance Management Emerging Providers, published in conjunction with the RPM guide, rates and ranks seven providers that address the core needs of sales organizations in innovative ways through AI, automation and advanced user experiences.

India’s traditional PC market—including desktops, notebooks, and workstations—recorded a strong 10.1% year-over-year (YoY) growth in Q3 2025, with shipments reaching 4.9 million units. This marks the market’s highest-ever quarterly performance, surpassing the previous record of 4.5 million units shipped in Q3 2024, according to data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker.

Worldwide PC shipments totaled more than 69 million units in the third quarter of 2025, an 8.2% increase from the third quarter of 2024, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company.

The ISG Buyers Guide for DataOps, produced by ISG Software Research, provides the rankings and ratings of more than 30 software providers and their products for the application of agile development, DevOps and lean manufacturing by data engineering professionals in support of data production. The ISG Buyers Guide™ for DataOps also addresses the development, testing, deployment and orchestration of data pipelines. The research finds that through 2027, more than half of enterprises will have adopted agile and collaborative data operations practices to be more responsive, avoid repetitive tasks and accelerate AI programs.

According to IDC’s Asia/Pacific Datacenter Deployment Model and Spend Forecast, 2025–2029, the Asia/Pacific datacenter market is on track for strong growth between 2024 and 2029. Total installed IT power capacity is expected to reach 142,600 MW by 2029, supported by a 22% CAGR. Demand for AI, cloud, and other digital services is rising fast, pushing hyperscalers, cloud providers, and digital service operators to expand at record speed.

In 2026, 116 million electric vehicles (EVs) – cars, buses, vans and heavy trucks – are forecast to be on the road, according to Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company.

Organizations in Europe are prioritizing adaptable business partnerships with strong governance frameworks to help them leverage AI and meet the data governance and compliance requirements set forth under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the EU AI Act, say experts from global AI-centered technology research and advisory firm Information Services Group (ISG).

Worldwide smartphone shipments are forecast to grow 1.5% year-on-year (YoY) in 2025 to 1.25 billion units, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. This is an increase from 1% growth in prior forecast, primarily driven by accelerated performance from Apple in the holiday quarter, rapid growth in key emerging markets and stabilization in China. Apple’s shipments are forecast to grow 6.1% YoY in 2025, up sharply from 3.9% in the last cycle.

Ninety percent of non-executive directors (NEDs) lack a measure of confidence in cybersecurity value, according to a new survey from Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company.

India’s tablet market shipped 1.33 million units in Q3 2025, a 19.7% year-over-year (YoY) decline, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. The market includes both detachable and slate tablets. Detachables grew 7.3% YoY, but this was offset by a sharp 29.4% YoY drop in slate tablets. The overall decline was driven mainly by a steep 53.5% fall in commercial shipments, even as the consumer segment delivered strong 13.5% YoY growth—its best performance in more than a decade.

The intelligence community is confronting an operational paradox: threats are multiplying, data is exploding, but budgets and headcount remain largely fixed. The result is a widening gap between the volume of information agencies must process and their capacity to process it while addressing ethical issues and classification rules, among many other considerations.

As artificial intelligence systems reshape the global security landscape, intelligence agencies and law enforcement organizations are confronting more data, more complexity, and more scrutiny, without corresponding increases in budget or personnel. For many in the field, the question is no longer whether artificial intelligence (AI) will be incorporated into intelligence workflows, but how to do so in a way that improves accuracy, increases speed, and maintains public trust.

AI-optimized infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is emerging as the next disruptive growth engine for AI infrastructure. As a result, end-user spending is projected to grow 146% by the end of 2025, according to Gartner, Inc. a business and technology insights company.