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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure Virtual Desktop Hybrid

Filippo Vanara — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

On Tuesday, September 1, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Virtual Desktop Hybrid (AVD Hybrid), marking a major milestone for organizations looking to modernize their virtual desktop infrastructure. This new model bridges cloud-native desktop management with existing on-premises infrastructure, allowing enterprises to run session host virtual machines (VMs) inside their own datacenters on their hypervisor of choice, including VMware vSphere, Nutanix AHV, or Microsoft Hyper-V, while seamlessly connecting those hosts to Azure using Azure Arc.

Red Hat AI 3.5 Extends AI Governance and Cost Controls Across Hybrid Infrastructure

Matthew Flug — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Red Hat has released Red Hat AI 3.5, an update to its AI portfolio centered on pre-deployment safety verification, resource controls for shared GPU infrastructure, agentic operations, multi-tenancy, and native observability with token-level cost attribution. The release reflects a change in what buyers expect from AI platforms, as the operational discipline applied to production infrastructure now governs how AI workloads are evaluated, isolated, and managed.

IDC MarketScape: 中国人工智能就绪的数据存储基础设施2026年厂商评估

Yunxu Yang, William Zhang — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本次IDC研究聚焦于中国提供AI-RDSI产品或解决方案的厂商，IDC针对入选的技术提供商的解决方案能力以及战略进行评估，主要标准包括产品服务内容与组合、市场化能力和商业化能力三个部分。各维度根据市场情况划分为多个细分标准，并配以不同的权重，从而形成IDC MarketScape综合评分体系。通过IDC分析师针对厂商和最终用户的深入访谈，集中分析并确定各AI-RDSI产品/解决方案提供商在IDC MarketScape中的相对位置，并探讨供应商的特点和战略，总结发展趋势，为CIO们选型AI-RDSI产品/解决方案时提供参考。

“AI负载带来特有挑战，AI训练、推理所需硬件架构区别于传统业务；模型训练存在短时、爆发式高资源消耗特征；海量数据高速传输的网络能力，同样是保障AI工作负载高效运行的关键。同时，支撑AI应用训练与运行的基础设施重要性持续提升，且未来数年基础设施支出将成为AI总投入的主体，因此成本优化至关重要。技术提供商需充分掌握各类新兴技术的能力特性，并搭建一套合理且丰富的架构方案，充分发挥适配人工智能基础设施投资的商业价值，同时协助技术买家优化成本、性能与安全水平，使技术买家能够灵活选用多种AI就绪的数据基础设施部署方式与运营模式。”——杨昀煦，IDC中国企业级存储基础设施研究经理

中国智能体身份安全治理技术评估，2026

Austin Zhao — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本IDC研究主要围绕智能体身份安全治理相关产品和解决方案开展，希望通过对中国市场中主要智能体身份安全治理技术提供商的技术评估帮助市场更加全面地了解中国智能体身份安全治理相关技术在过去的发展情况以及未来的技术发展趋势。本次报告具体评估内容包括但不限于智能体身份安全治理涉及的智能体发现与管理、智能体身份认证与管理、智能体身份授权治理、智能体行为监控与风险检测、智能体身份审计与溯源、人机共治能力、AI生态兼容能力等方向。

IDC中国网络安全市场高级研究经理赵卫京表示："当前中国智能体身份安全治理市场仍处于产品成型和早期落地阶段，技术提供商正在围绕智能体发现、身份认证、动态授权、行为监控、审计溯源和人机协同等能力构建产品体系。未来，随着智能体数量增长以及多智能体、MCP、Skills等生态快速发展，市场竞争将逐步从单点身份安全能力转向'身份—权限—行为—审计'一体化治理能力，并向持续授权、运行时控制、跨域可信协作和智能化运营演进。对于企业而言，智能体身份安全将成为AI应用上线和规模化运行不可缺少的基础设施；对于安全技术提供商而言，谁能够率先建立完整的产品闭环，并解决与现有IAM、零信任及AI平台的融合问题，谁就更有机会在这一新兴市场中形成先发优势。"

IDC Market Glance: AI Infrastructure Ecosystem, 2026

Mary Johnston Turner — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Glance presents a current-state view of the worldwide AI infrastructure ecosystem spanning the infrastructure hardware, software, components and services vendors that enable AI workloads for model training, inference, and agentic workflows. The ecosystem is organized into five segments: AI Cloud Services, Non-Cloud Service Providers, Core AI Infrastructure Providers, AI Infrastructure Software, and AI-Ready Components. Each segment is further divided into sub-segments that group the representative vendors competing and collaborating to support hyperscalers, specialized clouds, enterprise buyers, and other service providers.

As AI workloads move into production at scale, infrastructure represents one of the largest cost elements underpinning AI ROI and total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis. Enterprise buyers increasingly expect to rely on a broad ecosystem of interoperable on-premises and public cloud infrastructure solutions supported by open standards and agentic AI operational controls.

IDC Market Glance: Healthcare Payer, 3Q26

Inci Kaya — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Glance is a taxonomy document intended to visually depict a concise current-state view of healthcare payers.This document explores the segments and subsegments that are of interest for healthcare payer sector buyers, providing an at-a-glance view of the technology partners that service each segment.

C-level business executives, accounts payable and receivable officers, reimbursement specialists, claim processors, medical billers, auditors, those involved in cost containment measures, claims examiners, Special Investigation Unit (SIU), and fraud prevention professionals can use this information to understand the structure of the overall market or ecosystem, to assess market, business, and partnership opportunities, and to help identify where their organization fits into the competitive landscape.

The publication of Market Glance content is current as of the date it is presented. The representative content contained in this presentation reflects

IDC MarketScape: Asia/Pacific Sovereign AI Platform 2026 Vendor Assessment

Deepika Giri, Daeil Chun — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study assesses technology platform vendors competing in the Asia/Pacific sovereign AI market in 2026, positioning sovereignty as an enterprise AI agenda defined by a spectrum of adoption patterns spanning the infrastructure, data, and model layers. This report underscores the importance of balancing advanced AI capabilities with more controllable and portable architectures for enterprises building durable sovereign AI strategies as AI technologies advance rapidly, regional adoption accelerates, and continuity risks (such as a provider's market exit) emerge.

"A sovereign AI strategy is not a one-size-fits-all strategy. A buyer could want to optimize the data pipeline for AI for ease of use, whereas another could demand full-stack ownership, expecting fundamentally different partners. However, every buyer, regardless of pattern, should test continuity separately from sovereignty. Residency proves a provider cannot read your data, and continuity proves you can keep running if that provider leaves," says Deepika Giri, VP on Asia/Pacific AI platforms and advisory, IDC.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide AI-Enabled Lease Administration Applications 2026 Vendor Assessment

Brian O'Rourke — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides a vendor assessment of the worldwide AI-enabled lease administration applications market through the IDC MarketScape model.

Post-pandemic shifts toward shorter, more flexible commercial leases are reshaping lease administration software demands. Emerging trends include AI-driven automated lease abstraction, expanded sublease and lessor-side administration capabilities, and portfolio strategy tools with forecasting and scenario planning. In addition, AI has a growing role across data entry, classification, risk mitigation, and reporting throughout lease administration workflows.

“Leases have changed over the past several years, and lease administration applications are changing as well,” said Brian O’Rourke, research manager, Enterprise Asset Management and Smart Facilities at IDC, “evolving from static recordkeeping to a key component in strategic AI-driven enterprise workflows.”

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Decision Intelligence Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment

Megha Kumar — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of decision intelligence platforms through the IDC MarketScape model. The evaluation is based on a comprehensive and rigorous framework that assesses vendors relative to the criteria and one another. The study highlights the factors expected to be the most influential for technology buyers as they seek a platform to support decision design, engineering, and orchestration, as well as the ability to understand the impact of the decisions being undertaken by the organization. This assessment can be used to help define a short list of vendors

“Decision intelligence continues to evolve with the introduction of generative AI and agentic AI capabilities. These capabilities are being used to accelerate how decision logic is authored, tested, and explained while keeping the deterministic core of the decision intact. It will be important for technology leaders to consider how AI is governed and how much control the organization retains over decisions that carry regulatory or operational significance,” said Megha Kumar, research vice president, Analytics and AI, IDC.

IDC's 2026 SaaS CSAT Awards

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation provides an overview of the results from IDC's SaaS CSAT Awards.This award program recognizes the leading SaaS vendors in each of the 22 application markets, based on the highest customer satisfaction scores received in IDC's SaaS and Agent Path survey.

SaaS Path is a global survey of roughly 2,845 organizations across all geographic regions and company sizes, in which customers are asked to rate their vendor on more than 30 customer satisfaction metrics.