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NEWPEAK Matrix®
Google Cloud Services Specialists PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025
Nov. 05, 2025Enterprises are advancing their cloud modernization journeys by focusing on AI-driven transformation, rebuilding data and application foundations to achieve greater speed, scalability, and intelligence. The need for faster data center exits, cost and performance improvements, and standardized automation that enables consistent transformation at scale drives this shift. There is a strong interest across industries where data, analytics, and compliance are accelerating modernization and unlocking business value. Google Cloud specialist providers are standing out by integrating data, AI, and platform capabilities into cohesive, outcome-driven solutions, cocreating industry-specific blueprints, embedding financial governance and automation, and demonstrating expertise across the Google Cloud product stack. In this report, we assess 12 Google Cloud providers featured in the Google Cloud Services Specialists PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025 and categorize them as Leaders, Major Contenders, and Aspirants, based on their capabilities and offerings.
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State of the Market
Google Cloud State of the Market 2025: Surfing the AI Wave
Oct. 31, 2025Enterprises are progressing beyond digital enablement into a new era defined by AI-driven business value realization. As AI reshapes cloud spending priorities, enterprise focus is shifting from experimentation to scaling innovation for sustainable impact. Google Cloud continues to distinguish itself through its data-centric architecture, open and interoperable AI ecosystem, and engineering expertise. These strengths help enterprises accelerate AI adoption and realize tangible business outcomes. This year’s report examines the Google Cloud services market through the lens of the AI wave while also incorporating a Return on Investment (RoI) perspective, covering themes such as acknowledging the AI toll and envisioning, initiating, sustaining, targeting, and institutionalizing RoI. In this report, we provide an overview of the Google Cloud services market, including trends, demand drivers, and key enterprise concerns. The report also helps organizations and partners strategically leverage Google Cloud’s infrastructure, AI, data, and platform services to capture enduring RoI in the evolving cloud ecosystem.
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Thematic Report
From Silicon to Strategy: Mapping the AI Chip Value Chain
Sep. 02, 2025The global AI chip market is expanding rapidly. As AI workloads become more complex and large scale, enterprises are demanding higher performance, lower latency, and integration capabilities that go beyond traditional compute approaches. Chip-level decisions are now being treated as a strategic component of enterprise infrastructure, with organizations seeking to balance workload flexibility, ecosystem integration, and silicon-level optimization. At the same time, the provider landscape is diversifying rapidly. Hyperscalers, established providers, and emerging participants are all introducing differentiated architectures, toolchains, and delivery models – creating a dynamic environment that requires enterprises to rethink infrastructure strategies. This shift is reshaping expectations around how AI workloads are deployed and scaled, and how enterprises derive value from AI-native infrastructure. In this report, we present a strategic outlook on the AI chip market, analyze provider segments, adoption shifts, and enterprise priorities. The report leverages Everest Group’s AIMPACT framework to offer a practical playbook for evaluating, selecting, and operationalizing AI-specific chips.
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Aug. 25, 2025Enterprises accelerating their transition from legacy systems to cloud-native operating environments now face an intensified need for specialized, cloud-ready talent to sustain large-scale modernization. Organizations now require deep expertise in cloud-native development, multi-cloud and hybrid cloud adoption, cloud orchestration, cloud security, cloud sustainability, and FinOps. High attrition, rising wage pressures, and the accelerating obsolescence of technical skills further intensify this challenge. In response, organizations are increasingly seeking IT providers with mature and forward-looking talent development strategies tailored to cloud services’ evolving needs. Providers are making proactive investments to build future-ready talent pipelines by combining traditional learning approaches, digital platforms, and hands-on training. They are also prioritizing certifications across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to strengthen workforce credibility and readiness. In line with future-of-work principles, many are embedding AI readiness into their workforce strategies, ensuring teams are equipped to work alongside intelligent tools and automation. At the same time, they are focusing on integrating Gen-Z talent by reshaping workplace culture, communication, and learning experiences to align with their digital-native expectations. To sustain long-term capability, providers are also enhancing employee engagement and retention through personalized career paths, continuous learning opportunities, and inclusive, purpose-driven work environments. In this report, we assess 32 IT providers featured on the Talent Readiness for Next-generation Cloud Services PEAK Matrix®. The research will help buyers select the right-fit cloud provider for their needs, while cloud providers will be able to benchmark themselves against each other.
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Aug. 25, 2025Cloud services are enabling mid-market enterprises to accelerate transformation and remain resilient amid macroeconomic challenges. Unlike large enterprises, mid-market organizations prioritize agility, speed, and efficiency, placing a premium on service models that deliver faster time-to-value and deeper client engagement. Traditional enterprise-centric offerings often fail to meet these needs, prompting cloud providers to adapt their strategies and build more customized offerings for this segment. Providers are responding by expanding capabilities in areas such as cloud consulting, infrastructure modernization, and AI-augmented managed services. They are also addressing demand for cost-optimized operations and scalable solutions tailored to mid-market delivery requirements. As the adoption of multi-cloud and generative AI-enabled models grows, providers must also evolve their value propositions to remain competitive. In this report, we assess 24 cloud providers featured in the Cloud Services for Mid-market Enterprises PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025 and categorize them as Leaders, Major Contenders, and Aspirants, based on their capabilities and offerings.
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Aug. 01, 2025The public cloud market has substantially grown in recent years, fueled by enterprises’ transformation and innovation needs. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded its capabilities by investing in generative AI, industry-specific cloud solutions, data analytics, and security enhancements. As AWS evolves, there is a growing demand for AWS specialist providers that can ensure smooth cloud migrations. These providers offer in-depth expertise to transform and manage AWS environments, focusing on managing costs, providing skilled resources, and leveraging cutting-edge technologies to create business value. Their strong partnerships with AWS allow for access to new products/services and incentives, enabling them to build customized solutions that cater to specific industry requirements, improve operational efficiency, and foster innovation. AWS specialist providers are intensifying their joint go-to-market strategies, enhancing their accreditations and competencies, and developing proprietary AWS-focused innovations and solutions. This strategic advance continues to solidify their strong position in the market. In this report, we assess 16 AWS providers featured in the AWS Services Specialists PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025 and categorize them as Leaders, Major Contenders, and Aspirants, based on their capabilities and offerings.
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Provider Compendium
Google Cloud Services – Provider Compendium 2025
July 29, 2025Enterprises are modernizing their technology foundations to stay agile, data-driven, and competitive. This shift is driving the demand for scalable, intelligent cloud platforms. Google Cloud has become a key enabler in this journey, offering advanced analytics, AI/ML, and open-source tools, such as BigQuery and Vertex AI, to support innovation and sustainability. As adoption grows, enterprises are increasingly engaging Google Cloud service providers to accelerate cloud migration, control costs, and build cloud-native solutions. These partners bring key capabilities in automation, scaling, and domain-specific advisory. In response, Google Cloud service providers are enhancing their offerings through advanced certifications, proprietary tools, and deeper alignment with Google to deliver high-impact, industry-relevant solutions. In this report, we profile 26 Google cloud service providers based on their capabilities and offerings. Each profile offers a comprehensive picture of the provider’s operational overview, delivery presence, solutions offered, investments, and market success.
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Provider Compendium
AWS Services – Provider Compendium 2025
July 29, 2025Over the past few years, the public cloud market has experienced significant growth due to the enterprise demand for business transformation, innovation, and resilience. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has accelerated its global adoption by investing in generative AI, industry-specific cloud solutions, data analytics, and security. As AWS continues to evolve, enterprises increasingly rely on AWS service providers to enable seamless cloud transitions. These providers bring key expertise in transforming and managing AWS environments helping enterprises control costs, access technically skilled resources, and leverage emerging technologies to drive business value. Their close alignment with AWS also allows them to deliver customized solutions that address industry-specific requirements, improve operational efficiency, and foster innovation. Through focused efforts, AWS service providers are enhancing their joint Go-to-Market (GTM) strategies, expanding their accreditations and competencies, and developing AWS-specific intellectual property and solutions, leading to their sustained market prominence. In this report, we profile 31 AWS service providers. Each profile offers a comprehensive picture of the provider’s operational overview, delivery presence, solutions offered, investments, and market success.
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July 15, 2025AI is moving from isolated pilots to enterprise-wide initiatives, but infrastructure strategies often lag. Many organizations face compute constraints, fragmented tooling, and unclear deployment or sourcing approaches. As AI workloads grow in scale and complexity, the need for purpose-built, scalable infrastructure aligned with business goals becomes essential. This report introduces AIMPACT, Everest Group’s framework for structured AI infrastructure planning. It offers a clear lens on how enterprises can profile AI workloads, assess readiness, and make informed decisions on deployment models, sourcing strategies, and stack design. The report also explores the broader shifts influencing how infrastructure is designed, operationalized, and governed in an AI-first world. This report provides a practical roadmap to move from fragmented pilots to scalable execution. CIOs, infrastructure leaders, AI teams, and service partners can use this report to bring structure to decision-making, align technology investments with business goals, and build infrastructure strategies that are grounded, adaptive, and future-ready.
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July 10, 2025The rapid rise of generative AI has led to a global infrastructure transformation, accelerating demand for high-performance computing and next-generation data centers. As enterprises and governments invest in sovereign compute capabilities, India is emerging as a key player due to its expanding digital economy, progressive policy environment, and growing hyperscaler activity. This report explores how India’s data center ecosystem is evolving, from concentrated tier-1 city hubs to a more distributed, regionally balanced model aligned with AI demands. However, not all regions are equally equipped to support dense, latency-sensitive AI workloads. Power availability, network infrastructure, land access, and environmental resilience vary widely across cities. To evaluate these differences, Everest Group introduces the CALIBER-DC framework, a comprehensive model that assesses regional data center readiness across key dimensions. This Viewpoint offers strategic insights for infrastructure developers, policymakers, and enterprises seeking to scale AI infrastructure in India.