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Effective Agent Cost Management: A Practitioner's Framework for Planning, Sourcing, Implementation, and Operations

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective provides a comprehensive, practitioner-focused framework for effective AI agent cost management, emphasizing that every dollar of wasted spend is a governance failure. Covering planning, sourcing, implementation, and operations, it details actionable steps for budgeting, cost modeling, governance, and continuous optimization. The framework guides organizations to transform unpredictable AI costs into strategic, auditable investments by integrating financial discipline, technical controls, and cross-functional accountability throughout the AI agent adoption journey.

"Every dollar of wasted AI agent spend is a governance failure," according to Shari Lava, group vice president, AI at IDC. "Are you ready to turn unpredictable costs into strategic, auditable investments?"

HPE Discover 2026: From AI Infrastructure to the Agentic Enterprise

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

HPE Discover 2026 marked a meaningful step in HPE's shift from an AI infrastructure provider to an enterprise AI operating platform. The event centered on operationalizing AI at scale through a more unified architecture spanning GreenLake, Private Cloud AI, networking, storage, security, and financial services. HPE positioned GreenLake Intelligence as an emerging control plane for agentic operations. Private Cloud AI also expanded its focus to governance, data readiness, and production AI workflows. Networking emerged as one of the most strategically significant themes of the event. Following the Juniper acquisition, HPE is positioning networking as both an enabler of AI infrastructure and a beneficiary of AI-driven automation. Self-driving networking was another major theme, reinforced by deeper Aruba–Juniper integration across campus, datacenter, edge, and AI Factory environments. HPE also sharpened its infrastructure economics story through Morpheus, VMware migration offers, HPE Financial Services (HPEFS), and new ecosystem partnerships. Collectively, the announcements position HPE around governance, autonomous operations, networking intelligence, sovereignty, and AI-era economics.

Parallels RAS Expands Infrastructure Boundaries with Custom Provider Framework

Filippo Vanara — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note analyzes Parallels’ latest update to its Parallels RAS by introducing a new Custom Provider Framework that enables organizations to integrate virtually any hypervisor or cloud platform into their Parallels RAS environments.

“Organizations are increasingly looking for digital workspace platforms that can adapt to diverse infrastructure strategies without adding operational rigidity,” says Filippo Vanara, senior research analyst, Worldwide Enterprise Client Computing Platforms at IDC. “As IT teams balance hybrid, on-premises, cloud, and regional infrastructure requirements alongside evolving compliance, sovereignty, and operational resiliency priorities, infrastructure flexibility is becoming an increasingly important consideration.”

AVEVA World 2026: A New Operating Model Reality — Agentic AI, Platform Consolidation, and the Industrial Intelligence Imperative

Frank Della Rosa — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note captures intelligence from AVEVA World 2026, which showcased AVEVA’s transformation into the platform backbone for AI-driven industrial enterprises, emphasizing agentic AI, platform consolidation, and strategic M&A. The company’s deep investment in engineering software, robust digital twin capabilities, and multicloud strategy position it ahead of competitors, while low churn and strong platform stickiness underpin growth. AVEVA’s focus on platform-centric innovation and geographic expansion, especially in APAC, signals a durable competitive advantage in the evolving industrial intelligence landscape.

“In the new operating reality, agentic AI isn’t an option — it’s the backbone redefining industrial intelligence, platform power, and competitive survival.” — Frank Della Rosa, research vice president, SaaS, Business Platforms, and Industry Cloud, IDC

IDC Market Glance: European Infrastructure-as-a-Service Market by Compliance Category, 2Q26

Carla Arend — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Glance highlights the ongoing transformation of the European infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market as compliance, sovereignty, operational stability, and digital autonomy become increasingly central to enterprise cloud strategies. This study provides a concise visual overview of the evolving European IaaS ecosystem, including hyperscalers, regional cloud providers, telecom operators, and sovereign cloud initiatives associated with key compliance and security frameworks such as SecNumCloud, C5, CISPE, and Gaia-X.

Tata Consultancy Services Digital Sovereignty Approach: IT Practicalities and Possibilities, Not Politics and Pipe Dreams

Rahiel Nasir — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note examines Tata Consultancy Services' (TCS) launch of SovereignSecure Cloud for Europe, announced in Frankfurt on May 26, 2026. The offering targets governments, public sector enterprises, and regulated industries through a three-layer architecture spanning hyperscaler-backed sovereign cloud, national sovereign cloud, and TCS' own enterprise orchestration layer. A companion Sovereignty Consulting and Delivery Framework introduces the concept of a minimum viable sovereign enterprise (MVSE), a risk-based posture in which the level of sovereign protection applied is calibrated to workload importance rather than universally applied.

IDC's view is that the proposition is well aligned with how European buyers now think about sovereignty — selectively applied, evidence-based, and tightly coupled to regulatory compliance. TCS' risk-based MVSE approach, pragmatic exclusions, and consulting-led posture differentiate it from the sovereign-by-design claims found elsewhere in the market. However, TCS will need to address extraterritoriality more transparently, given its Indian parent, broaden the proposition to cover supply chain, AI, network, skills, and assurance sovereignty more explicitly, elevate continuous assurance to a named workstream, and strengthen its France engagement and country-level certification road map to match the most demanding European buyer requirements.

"TCS' minimum viable sovereign enterprise approach is a refreshingly pragmatic anchor for the European sovereign cloud market — it treats sovereignty as risk management, not as a marketing label. With open questions still to address on extraterritoriality, key management, operator-generated metadata, and a broader taxonomy of sovereignty to build out, TCS SovereignSecure Cloud is one to watch as Europe's digital sovereignty market continues to heat up," says Rahiel Nasir, research director, Cloud and Datacenter Infrastructure Services, IDC.

Hybrid Cloud Importance Grows in Asia/Pacific

Daphne Chung — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study discusses that hybrid cloud is now foundational for Asia/Pacific (AP) digital transformation (DX), enabling organizations to balance innovation with compliance and operational control. The region’s regulatory complexity, AI adoption, and decentralized IT models make hybrid cloud not just an option but a necessity. Enterprises that invest in robust, future-ready hybrid platforms, supported by strong partner ecosystems and AI capabilities, will be best positioned to capitalize on emerging opportunities and navigate ongoing market and regulatory shifts.

Daphne Chung, research director of Cloud and Infrastructure Services says, “Hybrid cloud is not just an IT architecture; it is the new battleground for AI, compliance, and operational resilience across Asia/Pacific. To succeed, AP enterprises must prioritize unified management, advanced data governance, built-in security and compliance, integrated AI/ML life-cycle management, and automation.”

IDC Market Glance: Utilities Customer Operations Ecosystem, 2Q26

Gaia Gallotti — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Glance provides the segments and subsegments of the utilities customer operations IT market. Vendors continue to expand their scope beyond core meter-to-cash, converging billing, customer engagement, energy data, and distributed energy resource (DER) orchestration onto unified, cloud-native platforms.

"A decade of best-of-breed procurement has left utilities with integration debt and rising cost-to-serve. The energy transition changes the calculus: affordability, flexibility, and AI all require a single, trusted data foundation. The vendors pulling ahead are those helping utilities rationalize the entire customer operations estate, not just replace a platform," said Gaia Gallotti, research director, IDC Energy Insights Europe.

IDC Survey Spotlight: How Does GenAI Influence Your Organization’s Decision for Using PSA and What Are the Most Important Business Outcomes You Want to Achieve with It?

Mickey North Rizza — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight discusses how generative AI (GenAI) is a key driver of PSA decision-making. IDC’s SaaS and Agent Path, April 2026 finds GenAI a key business driver for PSA investments. Organizations are planning to replace their current PSA application if GenAI is not included. Business outcomes, such as operational efficiency, faster innovation, and improved employee productivity, along with a few others, point to an inward business focus.

Market Share: European Public Cloud IaaS Shares, 2025 — Hyperscaler Dominance and Europe’s Homegrown Cloud Ambitions

George Ayad, Carla Arend — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation examines the 2025 market shares of the leading vendors in the European public cloud IaaS market.

This presentation analyzes vendor positioning, regional dynamics, notable M&A activity, and significant market developments, including the emergence of GPU-specialized providers, the shift from sovereign cloud to sovereign AI as a procurement requirement, and the acceleration of multicloud adoption, and offers data-driven guidance for technology suppliers competing in the European IaaS market.

“The European public cloud IaaS market demonstrated exceptional resilience in 2025, growing 28.9% year over year to reach $39.2 billion. As enterprises navigate the integration of AI and agentic AI, the most important focus now is on how to avoid AI cost spikes and ensure sovereignty and resilience. Geopolitical tensions recently have enticed Europe to prioritize sovereignty in its infrastructure deployments, especially while navigating the AI era.” — George Ayad, senior research analyst, EMEA Cloud Research at IDC