The trends we're watching in 2025

January is a time for planning, goal-setting, and looking to the future and here on the ITPro Podcast things are no different.While there are sometimes unexpected developments – take ChatGPT in 2022, for example – it’s nevertheless possible to tease out trends from the year gone by that can influence the new one.For this new year’s edition of the podcast, Jane and Rory are joined by Dr John Honchell, IT industry analyst at Future B2B, to unpick the top trends from this year that will shape 2025.FootnotesGenerative AI's cybersecurity potential is clear, but so far it's given hackers the upper handEnterprises are ramping up investment in private AI systemsVMware cuts ribbon on new Private AI offeringsWhat is a sovereign cloud?Sovereign cloud demand is “truly global” according to Oracle — and the company is well placed to capitalize on itOpenAI just raised $6.6bn in funding, but it drove a hard bargain – investors will be stopped from funding rivals