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.

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.

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.

According to an IDC report, AI-Optimized Cloud Infrastructure in Asia/Pacific: The Rise of AI-Native Providers, IDC expects that global investment in AI inference infrastructure will surpass training infrastructure by the end of 2025, underscoring the growing strategic importance of AI-native cloud providers in enabling enterprise-grade Generative AI (GenAI).

The survey, which interviewed 3,887 business and tech executives from across 72 countries and territories, also finds that only around half of security and operations leaders say their organisation is ‘very capable’ of withstanding cyber-attacks, with only 6% say they’re ‘very capable’ across all areas surveyed, even as new and emerging technologies including AI and quantum computing transform the cyber risk landscape.

The Gartner survey found 79% of HR leaders believe HR should focus on enabling and motivating employees to leverage technology in ways that promote organizational growth. As CHROs continue to heavily prioritize leader and manager effectiveness, it’s imperative that they help managers build necessary AI skills and capabilities and improve their effectiveness.