International Data Corporation (IDC) recently published a new forecast for the Worldwide Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) markets, which includes revenue segmentation across IDC's 18 enterprise workload categories. The combined Public Cloud IaaS and PaaS market is forecast to have revenues of $400 billion in 2025 with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 28.8% during the 2021-2025 forecast period.

The manufacturing process is fully automated in a lights-out environment, with minimal human intervention required to run day-to-day operations. Rapidly falling price of robots and continually increasing labor costs will accelerate manufacturers’ shift toward a lights-out setting in the upcoming years.

Driven by significant chip shortages, up to 1 billion payment cards are at risk of not being issued over an 18-month timeframe, with 347 million at risk in 2021 and up to 740 million in 2022. Supply cannot currently keep up with increasing demand and the payment cards industry is by no means immune from this situation.

A consensus has developed among global leading communications service providers (CSPs) that the B2B market is a major growth opportunity for 5G and many have been actively trialing 5G B2B services with a focus on vertical industrial applications.

Large organizations that have deployed SAP to underpin their most strategic operations are in the process of evaluating how this critical enterprise application will support accelerated technology modernization and business transformation initiatives. With the expiration date for support for ECC 6.0 now set for 2027, many executives have elected to pull the trigger on moving to S/4HANA, according to analysts at IDC.

A new analysis by ABI Research examines how the antenna market is evolving to address challenges specific to IoT. Increased radio complexity, device miniaturization, lower power consumption, and a complex certification landscape are among many factors making integration of antennas more difficult

Four new trends in cloud computing are continuing to expand the breadth of cloud offerings and capabilities, accelerating growth across all segments in the public cloud services market, according to Gartner, Inc. The cloud has proven itself during times of uncertainty with its resiliency, scalability, flexibility, and speed. Hybrid, multi-cloud, and edge environments are growing and setting the stage for new distributed cloud models.

According to IDC, over 40% of the global population turned to remote work models in 2020. With the ebb and flow of the global pandemic in 2021, hybrid work models are enabling some people to return to on-site work while others continue to work remotely or move between remote and on-site work.

The Ray, a Georgia-based collaborative project focused on connected-vehicle infrastructure development along an 18-mile stretch of Interstate 85, recently added an OEM partner that will help with the second phase of rollout. Dubbed a “green highway of the future,” The Ray is a partnership between state agencies, a family foundation and private companies that aims to advance autonomous vehicle testing.

India is expected to aggressively push toward electrification in the near future. Mega Trends such as rapid urbanization, rising fuel costs, traffic congestion, pollution, emerging economic growth, and energy security will drive EV adoption in the country in the next few years.

Attacks on OT – hardware and software that monitors or controls equipment, assets and processes – have become more common. By 2025, cyber attackers will have weaponized operational technology (OT) environments to successfully harm or kill humans, according to Gartner, Inc.

Hyperscale public cloud providers have experienced growth rates exceeding 30% for the past few years, and their appetite for enterprise IT spend remains insatiable. Everest Group predicts hyperscalers—namely Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure—will seize more of enterprise IT spend as the cloud services market accelerates to 24% compound annual growth rate through 2024.

Content creation has transformed thanks to the spread of distribution platforms that can spread its media, like social media and other forums. But within the last few years, certain areas of the content-creation market have set off exceptional ripples even for the larger digital revolution. For manufacturers of audio or video equipment, the question isn’t what they should expect these markets to do—it is how they should expect these markets to grow, and because of whom.

As organizations accelerate the implementation of business transformation and technology modernization initiatives, business leaders are exploring the impact these changes will have on enterprise content management and its associated workflows. A growing number of organizations are exploring the role that collaboration platforms can play in streamlining content management.

Confidence that quantum computers will solve major problems that are beyond the reach of traditional computers—a milestone known as quantum advantage—has grown fast in the past twelve months, according to a new report by BCG. Investors are moving aggressively to increase the amount they allocate to quantum computing, with two-thirds of all equity investments in the field coming since 2018.

The mobile computing market is in full recovery after several years of shipment and revenue declines. Hybrid work environments will become more prevalent as many employees report tangible benefits from remote work and are increasingly demanding more flexible work environments. The Windows 11 / post-pandemic refresh cycle will push the market to new highs of $241 billion in revenue in 2025 from $197 billion in 2020.

IDP vendors are expected to offer more out-of-the-box, pre-trained IDP solutions to meet the demand for faster ROI and quicker deployment. Cost impact is now the key driver for IDP adoption as enterprises seek to realize tangible benefits from the technology, closely followed by improving operational efficiency and productivity.

COVID-19 has put healthcare systems across the globe under tremendous pressure and underscored the urgent need to advance to a smart healthcare system. Transformative technologies such as 5G connectivity, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Augmented Reality, and Virtual reality (AR/VR), are at the forefront of a digitized health care system. There is an urgent need for a communication infrastructure that unites the currently very fragmented technology landscape.

As businesses explore their SAP modernization options, the best way forward for many organizations may lie in hybrid installations of SAP S/4HANA that allow IT teams to maintain their current infrastructure. Most established companies often have application estates that are inflexible, monolithic, and outdated. When it comes to SAP modernization, challenges and opportunities are in the eye of the beholder.

A new IDC report provides an overview of Indian organizations’ skill development plans in the near future. This report provides insights into organizations' skill development goals, the importance of technology skills in digital transformation goals, the overall business impact arising from lack of skills, how organizations plan to acquire or develop critical skills within their businesses in the next six months.