8 trends defining the enterprise IT market today

Where’s the IT market headed? From AI to the edge, here’s a rundown of what’s shifting of late in terms of IT offerings, strategies, deployments, and investments.

The IT market is always evolving. New trends arrive as many once-popular technologies and practices gradually drift away. It’s the CIO’s job to stay on top of the latest developments and to decide which emerging trends might benefit their enterprise and which could pose a potential threat. To bring you up to speed on what’s new and significant, here are the key trends that are defining today’s enterprise IT market:
1. AI offerings abound — and IT leaders are buying
2. Unstructured data analysis fueling hardware investment, set to transform industries
3. IT leaders embrace cloud-native architectures and multicloud strategies
4. Cybersecurity investment increases — as do AI risks
5. Low-code and no-code platforms having their moment
6. Real-time risk platforms on the rise
7. Data sovereignty shaking up dynamics between cloud and edge
8. AI breathing new life — and imperatives — into digital transformation

Based on cio.com story by John Edwards, JUNE 26, 2025