ISG Releases Five 2025 Reports Evaluating Up to 77 Providers Across Cloud, Energy and Sustainability
ISG (III) published five 2025 research reports evaluating 33 to 77 providers in hybrid/multicloud AI, energy software, sustainability management, U.S. public sector cloud, and Nordic sovereign cloud services. Reports spotlight Leaders IBM, IFS and AWS, name Rising Star Zensar, and highlight enterprise demand for AI-enabled cloud infrastructure and FinOps governance.
1. Rapid Shift to Mission-Critical AI Deployments
In 2025 enterprises moved decisively from isolated AI pilots to mission-critical AI deployments across hybrid and multicloud environments, driving unprecedented demand for new cloud infrastructure and services, according to ISG’s latest Provider Lens® report. The study finds that 85% of large enterprises have now integrated AI into core workflows—up from 40% in 2024—raising the bar for performance, reliability, security and financial control. Kubernetes management platform usage surged by 60%, while 78% of respondents reported tighter DevOps integration and a 35% improvement in resource utilization when running AI workloads in multicloud configurations.
2. Provider Landscape and Market Leaders
ISG evaluated 77 global providers across four quadrants—FinOps Platforms, Observability Platforms, Security Platforms and Kubernetes Management Platforms—to gauge capability in supporting scalable AI operations. Broadcom emerged as a Leader in three quadrants, showcasing its strong security and observability integration. Dynatrace and IBM each secured Leader status in two quadrants, underlining their strengths in monitoring and cloud-native orchestration. An additional 20 vendors, including CrowdStrike, Datadog, Palo Alto Networks and Red Hat, achieved Leader recognition in a single quadrant. CoreStack and LogicMonitor were named Rising Stars for their promising portfolios and high future potential.
3. Heightened Focus on Financial Governance and Integrated Platforms
As AI workloads exert sustained pressure on infrastructure budgets, 67% of enterprises have adopted advanced FinOps practices to gain granular insight into GPU-intensive training and inference costs. ISG researchers highlight growing demand for FinOps tools that integrate seamlessly with security and observability data, enabling proactive cost control and clearer measurement of business outcomes. To address operational complexity, 72% of organizations now prioritize integrated platforms that combine cloud security, observability, Kubernetes management and governance—eliminating data silos, automating policy enforcement and maintaining trust across multi-layer AI pipelines.