India, Sept. 4 -- Nearly 80% of Chief Information Officers (CIOs) in the Asia-Pacific region are expected to adopt edge services from cloud providers by 2027 to meet the performance and compliance needs of generative AI (GenAI) workloads, according to new IDC research commissioned by Akamai Technologies.

The research paper, "The Edge Evolution: Powering Success from Core to Edge," highlights how the rising adoption of AI is prompting APAC enterprises to reevaluate their digital infrastructure. It finds that centralised cloud models alone are no longer adequate to support the speed, scale, and regulatory requirements of AI inferencing.

According to the IDC Worldwide Edge Spending Guide, public-cloud services at the edge are forecast to g...