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How Important Is ESG/Sustainability for Enterprise Value Creation, and What Business Benefits Have EMEA Organizations Achieved?

Katharina Grimme — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes which aspects of enterprise value creation are considered the most relevant and to what extent EMEA companies have achieved or expect to achieve business benefits from sustainability initiatives. Achieving measurable business outcomes from sustainability initiatives is paramount for organizations.

Are companies in EMEA adopting liquid cooling in their datacenter facilities to support AI and GenAI workloads?

Andrew Buss, Luis Fernandes, Shahin Hashim — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight focuses on how AI and GenAI have become a prominent part of IT infrastructure plans for companies in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), and how that has changed over the past year. However, companies are still bound by the underlying datacenter facilities, and the adoption of liquid cooling is not among their highest priorities.

This report is based on IDC's EMEA 2025 GenAI Infrastructure Survey, conducted in 2025 among 1,000 organizations in the EMEA region. The survey spanned 16 countries in Western Europe; Central and Eastern Europe; and the Middle East, Türkiye, and Africa.

Diligent Acquires 3rdRisk to Extend AI-Driven Leadership Across the Full Risk Ecosystem

Philip D. Harris, CISSP, CCSK — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Link analyzes the initial market impact of the announcement from Diligent, a leader in the governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) SaaS platform service, of its acquisition of 3rdRisk, an AI-native third-party risk management platform based in the Netherlands. The acquisition empowers Diligent to fast-track enhancements to its third-party risk management capabilities.

IDC Playbook for Tech Sales Leaders：2026年国内企業向けネットワーク機器市場ーAIとセキュリティを軸にした戦略的アプローチ

Kenichi Kusano — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

本調査レポートは、国内企業向けネットワーク機器市場の現状や将来のトレンドについて分析したものである。IDCの調査に基づいて、顧客、競合、市場の動向に関するインサイトを提供する。また、ITサプライヤーに、あるべき行動とその実施戦略を提言する。ITサプライヤーの営業部門のリーダーが、顧客の購買基準や市場動向の影響を明確にする際に活用できる情報が多く含まれる。

Latest Enterprise Cloud Connectivity Trends

Taranvir Singh — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey highlights latest enterprise cloud connectivity trends, sourced from the IaaS Network Services Special Report.

This survey is conducted at a time when many organizations are facing complex networking challenges mainly due to evolving enterprise IT architectures involving a rising number of modern digital, agentic, and generative AI workflows across on-premises networks (from datacenters to campus core to network edge), SaaS provider networks, and multi-cloud environments. In addition, modern applications consist of more distributed components than ever. Enterprises are primarily concerned about these watchpoints — network resiliency, service consistency, and staff productivity.

An in-depth web survey of 1,000 key enterprise networking decision-makers was conducted across North America and Western Europe, representing a range of 8 major vertical industries and company sizes from 500 to 10,000+ employees. These decision-makers expect to respond to the challenges by increasing IaaS network services adoption to support their globally distributed digital infrastructure end to end — from network to compute to data to applications.

Full version of IDC's IaaS Network Services Special Report provides detailed quantitative and qualitative views into customer's networking requirements, service priorities, budgets, adoption timelines, expected returns, and provider differentiation.

Are the Cloud Policies of Organizations in the Middle East and Africa Evolving Fast Enough to Support Sustainable Compute Growth?

George Ayad — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight presents insights from IDC's Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Cloud Survey, which was conducted in September 2025. It assesses the interplay between the rapid growth of AI adoption and the evolving cloud sustainability regulatory landscape in the Middle East and Africa (MEA). The presentation analyzes how tightening sovereign mandates are reshaping cloud compute strategies and examines the "green execution gap" that organizations face as they balance high-performance AI demands with energy efficiency requirements and ROI pressures.

Five Trends to Watch in Endpoint Management in 2026

Phil Hochmuth — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Perspective outlines five key developments in endpoint device management that will shape the market in 2026, including the decoupling of OS-specific management planes, the rise of life-cycle intelligence, outcome-based management models, the need to manage invisible endpoints, and the emergence of management-optional devices.

"As endpoint estates grow in diversity and AI capabilities, technology suppliers must provide data-driven, integrated, and risk-aware endpoint device management platforms that meet evolving operational, security, and digital employee experience requirements," says Phil Hochmuth, program vice president, Endpoint Device Management and Enterprise Mobility at IDC.

Innovation Summit Insights: How Schneider Electric Is Aligning Efficiency, Resilience, and Decarbonization

Amy Cravens, Bjoern Stengel — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note shares an overview of Schneider Electric's Innovation Summit that showcased the company's integrated approach to energy management, decarbonization, and resilient infrastructure, emphasizing the convergence of hardware, software, and advisory services. Key highlights included the launch of SE Advisory Services and Sera, an AI agent, underscoring Schneider's evolution from product supplier to strategic partner. The event demonstrated how efficiency, sustainability, and resilience can be achieved through collaborative ecosystems, advanced datacenter solutions, and AI-driven platforms, supporting organizations' transition to low-carbon, optimized operations.

Public Safety Top 10 Trends for 2026

Alison Brooks, Ph.D. — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective outlines 10 technology trends set to transform public safety by 2026, with artificial intelligence evolving into foundational infrastructure. The analysis highlights the shift toward integrated, usable, and resilient systems, emphasizing operational convergence, AI agents, modular ecosystems, and advanced air and space–based capabilities. Legal, ethical, and sovereignty considerations are central, as is the need for engineered trust. Agencies must prioritize governance, adaptability, and human oversight to maximize effectiveness and public legitimacy.

"In 2026, public safety will be defined not by isolated innovation but by AI-powered integration, where trust, sovereignty, and human judgment become mission-critical infrastructure," said Alison Brooks, PhD, research VP, Public Safety, IDC.

Supercomputing 2025

Madhumitha Sathish, Peter Rutten — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note highlights some of the announcements and demonstrations by participants at SC25. As AI‑driven workflows augment and transform scientific and enterprise computing, demand from digital twins, autonomous systems, and AI‑assisted discovery will accelerate for scalable, energy‑efficient, and operationally mature AI/HPC infrastructure and platforms. Organizations that align infrastructure strategies with these trends, embracing convergence, will unlock faster insights, higher utilization, and greater value from next‑generation performance-intensive computing investments.