rssservices

Worldwide Server Market Summary and Outlook, 3Q25

Kuba Stolarski — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation offers an overview of the worldwide server market, related trends, and forecasts for the third quarter of 2025. Detailed results were released on December 11, 2025, in IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker and on December 18, 2025, in IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker Forecast. This presentation provides insights into the regional, vendor, and market-level performance as well as details on key developments and trends in the market, including accelerated servers (i.e., GPUs and other accelerators), offering advice to suppliers on how to navigate various issues present in the current market and developing over the next five years.

Datacenters as Grid Assets: Regulatory Turning Point and the Nuclear Pivot

Olga Yashkova — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note explores the latest developments in the relations between datacenters and the utility grid, coupled with the latest related regulations in the United States and their impact on the datacenter market. Surging AI-driven datacenter energy demand is outpacing grid capacity, prompting a regulatory shift that repositions datacenters as active grid assets. Federal and state initiatives, including the DOE's emergency orders and Texas SB 6, now require datacenters to support grid reliability. The government's "nuclear + compute" strategy, fast-tracked by EO 14301, is accelerating modular nuclear deployment to provide scalable, carbon-neutral power but introduces new operational and financial challenges for datacenter operators.

Ricoh Intelligent MPS: A Blueprint for Customer-Centric Managed Print Services

Robert Palmer — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Perspective discusses Ricoh's Intelligent Managed Print Services (iMPS) that represents a strategic evolution in managed print, offering a modular, cloud-based, and vendor-agnostic platform that addresses modern challenges in print management, security, and digital transformation. By leveraging IoT, AI, and a customer-centric approach, Ricoh iMPS enables organizations of all sizes to optimize print environments, streamline workflows, and enhance productivity, positioning Ricoh as an innovator in next-generation MPS solutions.

"Modularity, scalability, and simplicity in design and delivery are key to enabling next-generation managed print services," says Robert Palmer, research VP with IDC's imaging, printing, and document solutions group. "With Ricoh Intelligent MPS, customers can quickly deploy a comprehensive solution tailored to meet existing requirements, with the comfort of knowing that enhancements and future readiness will be continuously supported as needs evolve."

IDC Survey: Worldwide Systems Integration Services Usage and Investment Priorities

Jason Bremner — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey highlights data from IDC's Worldwide IT Professional Services Survey, a broader survey of the spending intentions and behaviors of buyers of IT consulting and systems integration services. This document focuses on questions related to systems integration. The survey was fielded in July 2025 and collected responses from 839 organizations globally. Respondents represented IT and business decision-makers from organizations in North America, Asia/Pacific, and Western Europe. Organizations were enterprise size with at least 500 employees. Organizations were sampled from across industries.

IT for Circularity: Vendor Offerings and Best Practices (Part One)

Katharina Grimme, Melvie Espejo — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective evaluates six leading technology vendors in the IT for Circularity space, highlighting their solution portfolios, capabilities, and best practice examples. It provides guidance for tech buyers navigating regulatory requirements who seek to leverage traceability, data management, and AI-powered tools to accelerate circularity initiatives, achieve compliance, and unlock business value. This is the first of two reports analyzing key tech vendor offerings and real-world applications.

"In the race toward circularity, technology is not just an enabler but the catalyst redefining value, resilience, and innovation across tomorrow's supply chains," says Katharina Grimme, AVP and EMEA sustainability research lead, IDC.

Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight: How Do Contact Centers Plan to Leverage GenAI Technology in Their Operations?

Raymond Pucci — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight provides insights from IDC's 2025 Worldwide Business Process Services Survey, where enterprises report how they plan to use GenAI solutions for customer support services.

EMEA C-Suite AI Outlook and Perception on Technology Providers, 2026

Martina Longo — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey investigates how EMEA C-suite executives think AI impacts operations and decision-making and identifies key stakeholders in AI funding decisions, including AI centers of excellence (COEs). It also provides insights into the strategic role of technology partners for AI and digital initiatives.

This analysis is based on responses from the EMEA sample (300 respondents) of IDC's Worldwide C-Suite Tech Survey, conducted from August to September 2025.

HP Inc. Announces Leadership Transition as Enrique Lores Steps Down

Linn Huang, Keith Kmetz — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

On February 3, HP Inc. notified IDC of a leadership change at the company. Bruce Broussard has been appointed interim chief executive officer as Enrique Lores has left the company to pursue another professional opportunity.

IDC Market Glance: Collaborative Product Innovation, 1Q26

John Snow — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of the collaborative product innovation market, covering the following innovation segments: early-stage development, design and virtualization, product innovation platforms, service providers, commercialization, and social communities. Although technology vendors and service providers may supply more than one product or offering to the market, only the parent corporation is listed.

IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Services 2026 Predictions — Canada Implications

Sreenivas Duvvuri Venkata, Jason Bremner — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC FutureScape provides IDC's top 10 predictions for worldwide services and implications for Canada for 2026–2031. This year's predictions for Canada are influenced strongly by the impact of agentic AI, with a focus on scaling AI use across the organization.

IDC's December 2025 Canada IT Decision Makers Survey indicates that 78% Canadian organizations are increasing IT spending on external services in 2026. Among primary reasons for that increase are investments made into innovative technologies and prioritization of technology as an enabler of growth. AI services are expected to receive a lion's share of the increment, in addition to security services. As organizations plan for greater use of agentic AI, across initiatives including application modernization and business functions like product R&D or customer service, controlling challenges such as agent sprawl is critical to the sustainability of investments. IDC expects partners such as cloud providers and systems integration and IT consulting vendors to play a critical role in helping Canadian organizations navigate this journey.

"Emerging frontier models and agentic solutions are making services-as-a-product models a lucrative reality. Its impact extends far beyond technology, affecting ways of working and business culture at its core," says Sreenivas Duvvuri Venkata, research analyst, Enterprise Services at IDC. "Grappling with change across the board, Canadian leaders will require to take a closer look at their internal operations, technology stack, and outsourcing footprint to remain relevant in the current business landscape."