The global public cloud services revenue reached $669.2 billion in 2023, a 19.9% increase from the previous year. Software as a Service – Applications accounted for nearly 45% of the market, followed by Infrastructure as a Service at 19.9%. Platform as a Service and Software as a Service – System Infrastructure Software contributed 18.4% and 17.0% of the total revenue, respectively, with PaaS and SaaS – SIS showing the fastest year-over-year growth.

IDC projects public cloud services will reach $219.3 billion by 2027, with the Asia/Pacific region experiencing significant growth in public cloud services and software investments, investing heavily in cloud-based software, data analytics tools, and AI platforms to optimize operations, enhance customer experiences, and gain valuable insights.

In a recent FutureScape report, IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Developer and DevOps 2024 Predictions — Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Implications, IDC predicts that by 2028, GenAI-based tools will be capable of writing 70% of software tests, decreasing the need for manual testing, resulting in improvements to test coverage, software usability and code quality.

Worldwide smart TV shipments are on track to decline 5.5% year over year in 2023, according to IDC. However, the market is expected to recover with a flat growth forecast in 2024, followed by slow growth in the following years. With high inflation and long refresh cycles, much of the growth in the smart TV market is relegated to emerging markets.

In a recent report, IDC predicts that by 2027, 60% of APAC firms will allocate 35% of their CX budget on emerging products and skills as GenAI improves. This shift shows that companies are starting to prioritize GenAI for customer-facing applications, hoping to improve customer satisfaction, service, and retention.

Organizations across the globe prioritize digital transformation (DX) to become digital businesses that can create value through the use of technology for processes, products, services, and experiences. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Digital Transformation Spending Guide, global DX spending is forecast to reach nearly $3.9 trillion in 2027 with a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16.1%. The United States accounts for 35.8% of DX spending, followed by Asia/Pacific (33.5%) and EMEA (26.8%).

The downward spiral for PC shipments continued during the third quarter of 2023 (3Q23) as global volumes declined 7.6% year over year with 68.2 million PCs shipped, according to IDC. Though demand and the global economy remain subdued, PC shipments have increased in the last two quarters, slowing the annual decline rate and indicating that the market has moved past the bottom of the trough.

Spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud deployments increased 7.9% year over year in 2Q23 to $24.6 billion. Spending on cloud infrastructure continues to outgrow the non-cloud segment, with the latter declining 8.3% in 2Q23 to $14.4 billion. The cloud infrastructure segment experienced a decline of 23.2% in unit demand with an increase in average selling prices, mostly related to higher-than-usual GPU server shipments to hyperscalers.

The worldwide Ethernet switch market grew revenues 38.4% year-over-year in the second quarter of 2023 (2Q23) to $11.8 billion. The total worldwide enterprise and service provider router market recorded $4.6 billion in revenue in 2Q23, a 9.4% year-over-year increase. A major driver of growth in the market continues to be the easing of supply chain issues that began during the global pandemic. This trend is particularly relevant in the non-datacenter segment of the Ethernet switching market, where revenues grew 52.5% year over year in 2Q23, while port shipments rose 16.6%.

According to a new IDC forecast, worldwide revenue for enterprise applications will reach $483.1 billion in 2027 with a five-year CAGR of 9.6%. Nearly all this growth will come from ongoing investments in public cloud software, which is expected to represent more than two-thirds of all enterprise applications revenue in 2027.

Worldwide revenue for the public cloud services market totaled $545.8 billion in 2022, an increase of 22.9% over 2021. SaaS applications remained the largest public cloud services revenue source, accounting for more than 45% of the total in 2022. IaaS was the second largest revenue category, with 21.2% of the total. In comparison, PaaS and Software as a Service – System Infrastructure Software (SaaS – SIS) delivered 17.0% and 16.7% of overall revenue, respectively, according to new data from IDC.

According to a recent IDC report, about 32% of the Asia/Pacific organizations surveyed expressed their commitment to invest in generative AI technologies, with 38% exploring use cases to implement Generative AI. These digital-first enterprises are looking to apply generative AI as a key lever to elevate enterprise intelligence and drive internal efficiencies.

Worldwide spending on Telecom Services and Pay TV Services reached $1,478 billion in 2022, increasing by 2.2% year over year. IDC expects Worldwide spending on Telecom and Pay TV services will increase by 2.0% next year and reach a total of $1,541 billion. The latest forecast is slightly more optimistic compared to last year, as it assumes a 0.3 percentage point higher growth in 2023. IDC believes this acceleration is a consequence of the increase in tariffs on telecommunication services fueled by inflation.

The EMEA external storage systems market value was up 4.5% year on year in dollars but down 4.3% in euros in 2021Q1, according to International Data Corporation's (IDC) EMEA Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker. Once again, the exchange rate played a key role in making the year-on-year comparison more favorable when looking at it in dollars rather than euros.

According to a new forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker, shipments of PCs are expected to grow 18.1% in 2021 with shipments of just over 357 million units. While IDC still expects PC growth to drop slightly in 2022 (-2.9%), the overall five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) remains positive at 3%

According to research by International Data Corporation (IDC), shipments of traditional PCs (a combination of desktops, notebooks, and workstations) in EMEA will total 96.4 million in 2021. Continuing lockdowns will result in maintained demand for devices that enable work/study/play-from-home use cases throughout the first half of 2021, with the strongest growth on record in 2021Q1 (39.1% YoY).

Worldwide revenues for the artificial intelligence (AI) market, including software, hardware, and services, are forecast to grow 16.4% year over year in 2021 to $327.5 billion, according to the latest release from IDC. By 2024, the market is expected to break the $500 billion mark with a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17.5% and total revenues reaching an impressive $554.3 billion.

Increased use of data protection as a service and economic constraints caused by the pandemic have affected the EMEA purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) market, which declined 4.5% in value year on year to $310.9 million in the third quarter of 2020.