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IDC White Paper 2026
The Business Value of IONOS CLOUD
Measurable value, backed by real customer data
The latest IDC White Paper quantifies the business value of IONOS CLOUD based on interviews with 10 European organisations. Find out how IT efficiency, availability and EU data sovereignty translate into concrete figures and an economic advantage.
- 167% three-year ROI with payback in under six months
- How EU sovereignty turns from a cost into a revenue driver
- Three migration scenarios compared: on-premises, hyperscaler, and smaller cloud providers
Excerpt from the study
“Before, we had to plan hardware, order it, wait for it to ship, build it in. It took weeks to get systems running. Now we just tell IONOS CLOUD we need more CPUs or servers and we have them in seconds.”
Forrester Report 2026
The Public Cloud Platforms Landscape, Q1 2026
Forrester Research on global cloud platforms
Get a strategic market overview of 28 public cloud platform providers. The report shows how enterprises can accelerate their time-to-market and keep infrastructure costs flexible by shifting to AI-native architectures.
- Current market analysis on the shift from standard workloads to AI-native cloud
- Comparison of 28 providers, GPU-centric neoclouds and use cases
- Sound decision-making basis for scaling (generative) AI and sovereign cloud operations
Excerpt from the study
“Hyperscalers and neocloud competitors are ushering in a qualitatively new platform — the AI-native cloud.”
IDC Spotlight 2025
Sovereign cloud solutions for the defence sector
Sovereign and private cloud models for defence and public authorities
The IDC Spotlight shows how your organisation can use a sovereign cloud solution to:
- Keep control of your data, infrastructure and operations
- Meet the highest security and compliance standards
- Drive innovation securely and agilely
Extract from the Spotlight
“The sovereign cloud is not just a technical upgrade, but a strategic necessity that underpins Europe's security, autonomy and industrial competitiveness in the 21st century.”
Compute Benchmark from Cloud Mercato
Reliable yet affordable computing
Cloud benchmark reveals IONOS CLOUD as a compute price leader
The results show why SMBs and mid-sized companies should consider IONOS CLOUD and get their computing bill under control.
Read about:
- IONOS CLOUD vCPU servers dominate in terms of compute price-performance ratio
- SYSbench CPU test summary
- Unique Dedicated Core servers for the most demanding requirements
Extract from the report
"The price/performance ratio of IONOS‘s 8vCPU 16GB solution is 2.6 times better than Google‘s Custom N2 8 vCPU 16GB in United States."
IDC InfoBrief
Cloud security in Europe
The key challenge for success in the cloud
IDC has analysed aspects of IT security in multiple market research studies and compiled the results.
Read about:
- Challenges in cloud security
- Key elements of a successful cloud security strategy
- Top factors for selecting a cloud service provider
Extract from the InfoBrief
"The top-ranked challenge is skills. Cybersecurity talent and skills are in short supply, particularly for cloud capabilities."
