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About idc.com (Tech Companies)

This page provides details about idc.com (Tech Companies) which was ranked #11 out of 100 in the list of sources (6 citations (2.9% share)) in answers from AI models (Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest), OpenAI ChatGPT Latest, Google Gemini Flash (latest), X.AI Grok (latest)) when they were asked the following 1 question: "What does the Cloud Storage industry look like right now? Identify the dominant market leaders and brands, best products and services, key companies and providers, influential figures and thought leaders, emerging startups and trends, major conferences and events, active professional communities, and the top publications and media that cover this industry." on Dec 30, 2025 by AI Chat Watch. This source is referenced for brands: Krista Macomber.

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Pages from idc.com (2 links)

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idc.com 1 2
/taxonomy/it-infrastructure/storage 5 48

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Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest) (2 citations)

What does the Cloud Storage industry look like right now? Identify the dominant market leaders and brands, best products and services, key companies and providers, influential figures and thought leaders, emerging startups and trends, major conferences and events, active professional communities, and the top publications and media that cover this industry.

[...] chers - **Lydia Leong** - VP Analyst at Gartner (Cloud infrastructure) - [Gartner Profile](https://www.gartner.com/en/experts/lydia-leong) - **Jerome Wendt** - President & Lead Analyst at DCIG - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeromewendt/) - **Krista Macomber** - Research Director at IDC - [IDC](https://www.idc.com/) ## Emerging Trends ### 1. **Edge Storage & Computing** - Moving storage closer to data generation points - Companies: **Cloudflare** - [https://www.cloudflare.com](https://www.cloudflare.com), **Fastly** - [https://www.fastly.com](https://www.fastly.com) ### 2. **Decentralized/Web3 Storage** - [...]

idc.com/taxonomy/it-infrastructure/storage December 30, 2025

[...] -storage](https://www.gartner.com/en/information-technology) - Magic Quadrants for cloud storage - Market research and forecasts 2. **Forrester Research** - [https://www.forrester.com](https://www.forrester.com) - Cloud infrastructure reports 3. **IDC (International Data Corporation)** - [https://www.idc.com](https://www.idc.com) - Market share reports and forecasts 4. **Synergy Research Group** - [https://www.srgresearch.com](https://www.srgresearch.com) - Quarterly cloud market reports 5. **451 Research (S&P Global)** - [https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/campaigns/451-research](https://www.spglobal.c [...]

idc.com/taxonomy/it-infrastructure/storage December 30, 2025

OpenAI ChatGPT Latest (1 citation)

What does the Cloud Storage industry look like right now? Identify the dominant market leaders and brands, best products and services, key companies and providers, influential figures and thought leaders, emerging startups and trends, major conferences and events, active professional communities, and the top publications and media that cover this industry.

[...] sysadmin/) - [Reddit r/kubernetes](https://www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes/) --- ## 9) Top publications, analyst firms, and media covering cloud storage ### Analyst firms (market maps, MQ/Wave-style evaluations) - [Gartner](https://www.gartner.com/) - [Forrester](https://www.forrester.com/) - [IDC](https://www.idc.com/) ### Trade press / technical media that frequently covers storage - [TechTarget SearchStorage](https://www.techtarget.com/searchstorage/) - [Blocks & Files](https://blocksandfiles.com/) - [The Register](https://www.theregister.com/) - [StorageReview](https://www.storagereview.com/) - [Serv [...]

idc.com/taxonomy/it-infrastructure/storage December 30, 2025

Google Gemini Flash (latest) (1 citation)

What does the Cloud Storage industry look like right now? Identify the dominant market leaders and brands, best products and services, key companies and providers, influential figures and thought leaders, emerging startups and trends, major conferences and events, active professional communities, and the top publications and media that cover this industry.

[...] torage](https://www.techtarget.com/searchstorage) * **The Register:** Known for blunt, technical analysis of cloud and storage giants. [The Register - Storage Section](https://www.theregister.com/data_centre/storage/) * **IDC (International Data Corporation):** Market research and tracker data. [IDC Storage Research](https://www.idc.com/taxonomy/it-infrastructure/storage) [...]

idc.com/taxonomy/it-infrastructure/storage December 30, 2025

X.AI Grok (latest) (2 citations)

What does the Cloud Storage industry look like right now? Identify the dominant market leaders and brands, best products and services, key companies and providers, influential figures and thought leaders, emerging startups and trends, major conferences and events, active professional communities, and the top publications and media that cover this industry.

[...] rage growth [Synergy Research Group Q2 2024 Cloud Market Share Report](https://www.srgresearch.com/articles/cloud-market-share-q2-2024-aws-maintains-lead-microsoft-and-google-close-the-gap). According to IDC, the worldwide public cloud storage services market is expected to hit $137 billion by 2027 [IDC Worldwide Public Cloud Storage Forecast](https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US51234523). ### Dominant Market Leaders and Brands - **Amazon Web Services (AWS)**: Leads with ~31% market share in cloud infrastructure (including S3 as the flagship object storage). AWS S3 handles exabytes of data globally [AWS S3](https://aws.amazon.com/s3/) [Synergy Research Group](https://www.srgresear [...]

idc.com December 30, 2025

[...] https://blocksandfiles.com/). - **StorageNewsletter**: Daily storage updates [StorageNewsletter](https://www.storagenewsletter.com/). - **Gartner**: Research reports/Magic Quadrants [Gartner IT](https://www.gartner.com/en/information-technology). - **IDC/Canalys/Synergy Research**: Market analytics [IDC](https://www.idc.com/), [Canalys](https://www.canalys.com/), [Synergy Research](https://www.srgresearch.com/). - **The Register**: Cloud/storage coverage [The Register](https://www.theregister.com/). - **ZDNet/TechRepublic**: Enterprise cloud storage reviews [ZDNet Cloud](https://www.zdnet.com/topic/cloud/). For real-t [...]

idc.com/taxonomy/it-infrastructure/storage December 30, 2025