This study provides IDC’s top 10 Asia Pacific predictions for the 2016 IT buyers when it comes to understanding and investing in their own datacenter facilities and staff, as well as SaaS and cloud infrastructure services offered by third-party service and network providers. These predictions provide the strategic context to enable enterprises to consider the overall impact of developments such as the digitalization of the economy cloud, shifts in populations and business activities, software-defined compute, and cloud storage.