Recent Research from Dan Thompson

• Cloud shift sees refocused intent on private cloud, hybrid IT – Highlights from Digital Pulse, Cloud and Datacenters

  By Liam Eagle Melanie Posey Dan Thompson June 18 2025 | Market Insight

  As the overall balance of enterprise IT deployments continues to shift toward service provider-operated environments as the primary venue and away from on-premises IT operations, enterprises nevertheless express a continued appetite for company-operated private cloud environments, both on-premises and in colocation facilities. The operation of a hybrid IT environment is seen as a long-term operating model for many companies.

  Information Security Data, AI & Analytics Customer Experience & Commerce Cloud & Managed Services Transformation Workforce Productivity & Compliance IoT, Edge and Digital Industries Datacenter Services & Infrastructure Applied Infrastructure and DevOps Fintech

• Survey Data Hub – Voice of the Enterprise: Digital Pulse, Cloud and Datacenters, Workload Placement & Migration (Combined Study) 2025

  By Liam Eagle Melanie Posey Dan Thompson June 18 2025 | Technology & Business Insight

  This special survey combines the resources of three separate Voice of the Enterprise (VotE) surveys to provide a holistic view of workload and application placement, and migration across various enterprise venues and IT environments, from in-house datacenters to colocation and public cloud environments. VotE: Digital Pulse takes a high-level view of the technology decisions, products, and topics facing organizations. VotE: Cloud, Hosting & Managed Services focused on cloud adoption and usage in enterprise IT environments, highlighting the emergence of the cloud operating model. VotE: Datacenters focuses on the key dynamics driving the enterprise datacenter market.

  The Workload Placement & Migration 2025 study combines the resources of these three surveys to examine the makeup of enterprise IT environments, organizational preferences for workload placement, the factors that determine those decisions, the migration and movement of workloads over time, and the rationale for the movement of workloads into and out of cloud. It also looks specifically at the drivers surrounding the deployment of AI workloads and the operation of hybrid IT systems.

  This online survey was fielded with 771 respondents from March 19 through April 25, 2025. The margin of error for top-line statistics is +/- 4 points at the 95% confidence level.

  Reports

  Cloud shift sees refocused intent on private cloud, hybrid IT – Highlights from Digital Pulse, Cloud and Datacenters (Spotlight)

  As the overall balance of enterprise IT deployments continues to shift toward service provider-operated environments as the primary venue and away from on-premises IT operations, enterprises nevertheless express a continued appetite for company-operated private cloud environments, both on-premises and in colocation facilities. The operation of a hybrid IT environment is seen as a long-term operating model for many companies.

  Data files

  Crosstabs (Excel tables | Download link in sidebar to the right) – Crosstabs of complete worldwide and regional survey results datasets, including key metrics and segmentation.

  Charts and Figures (PowerPoint charts | Navigate charts in sidebar to the left | Download link in sidebar to the right) – PowerPoint slide deck of complete top-line survey results in charts and figures.

  Data Insights Deck (PowerPoint charts | Coming soon) – PowerPoint slide deck of advanced charts supporting deeper analysis and insight.

  Information Security Data, AI & Analytics Customer Experience & Commerce Cloud & Managed Services Transformation Workforce Productivity & Compliance IoT, Edge and Digital Industries Datacenter Services & Infrastructure Applied Infrastructure and DevOps Fintech

• Next in Tech podcast: Datacenter slowdown?

  By Eric Hanselman Dan Thompson June 11 2025 | Technology & Business Insight

  Questions are being raised about whether the velocity of datacenter build-outs is now wavering. Analyst Dan Thompson returns to the podcast to explore the realities of the market with host Eric Hanselman.

  Data, AI & Analytics Datacenter Services & Infrastructure

• Fusion could become the next 'next big thing' in energy as hyperscalers bet on nuclear solutions

  By Matthew Richesin Dan Thompson June 16 2025 | Market Insight

  The current AI arms race has reached a bottleneck that can be relieved only by new sources of electrical generation. While fission has been the exemplar of nuclear energy to date, the fusion sector has seen a recent surge in interest, with global funding exceeding $7.1 billion across 50 startups.

  Datacenter Services & Infrastructure

• Take 5: A role for sustainability

  By Amy Hedrick Michael Nocerino Dan Thompson May 8 2025 | Technology & Business Insight

  Sustainability is an important topic for many parts of an organization, including IT professionals, particularly in the context of datacenters and the increasing compute needs for cloud services, AI models and more. Take five minutes to read five Voice of the Customer qualitative interview comments and what they mean.

  Datacenter Services & Infrastructure

• Truths about how the power sector can (and cannot) respond to datacenter needs

  By Etienne Gabel Kelly Morgan Dan Thompson April 28 2025 | Technology & Business Insight

  The interplay between AI, datacenters and energy markets is evolving rapidly in multiple and sometimes conflicting ways. The surge in datacenter power demand, fueled largely by AI, is opening power sector investment opportunities that were simply uncontemplated just two years ago. This report is a collaboration between S&P Global Commodity Insights and S&P Global Market Intelligence.

  Datacenter Services & Infrastructure

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