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Cloud Security and Confidential Computing: Securing the AI-Driven Enterprise

Philip Bues — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective details how cloud security and confidential computing secure AI-driven enterprises. By integrating hardware-based attestation, isolation, and cloud security, vendors can protect AI and sensitive workloads across distributed environments. The evolution toward a trusted execution fabric unifies control, assurance, and continuity, enabling secure, data-centric business models. Suppliers who deliver scalable, interoperable solutions with proven outcomes will gain a decisive competitive advantage in the rapidly expanding market.

European Telco Best Practices on Advanced VoIP Solution Offerings for SMBs

Daniela Rao, Graham Fruin — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation provides an overview of European telcos' best practices on advanced VoIP solution offerings for SMBs.

The presentation summarizes drivers and market value and provides an in-depth look at European telcos' best practices on the advanced VoIP service offerings of four major European telcos targeting SMBs with different messages and solutions. It also contains key recommendations for telco providers acting in this market area.

HPE FT 1Q26 Results: Accelerating the Shift Towards Networking and AI Infrastructure

Matthew Eastwood — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

IDC Enterprise Communications Services Survey, 2025: Ethernet and Wavelength Networking Services

Courtney Munroe — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

The IDC Survey provides key trends on current usage, priorities, and challenges in enterprise WAN across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The research assesses current and planned bandwidth requirements, including adoption of higher-speed Ethernet and wavelength circuits. It also provides drivers for adopting these services, including use cases and the top features that appeal to enterprises.

IDC Survey Spotlight: What Are the Primary Drivers of Increased Spending on Cyber-Recovery and Resilience?

Grace Trinidad — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Enterprise systems are battling escalating complexity, an intensifying, more complex regulatory landscape, and constant threats. In this environment, recoverability is emerging as the defining performance metric. Organizations are looking for recovery solutions that are seamless to deploy, map recovery time objectives to downtime cost curves, quantify exposure in monetary terms, and align with insurer models. In this survey spotlight, we take a closer look at the reasons behind increased investment in cyber-resilience and recovery by region (NA, APAC, WE, META) and what these responses can mean for the future of cyber-resilience.

IDC Survey: CIO/CTO Pulse Survey on Digital and AI Sovereignty

Teodora Snoddy — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

The CIO/CTO Pulse Survey is part of a series of surveys conducted once every quarter. These quick surveys, consisting of 8–10 questions, are designed to explore the views of technology leaders on various topics. The focus for 1Q was digital and AI sovereignty, with questions focused on the importance, reasons, and challenges technology leaders face in achieving digital and AI sovereignty goals. This analysis is based on the full international set of 134 respondents, including 48 from North America, 49 from Europe, and 37 from the Asia/Pacific region. No respondents with the title below director of IT are eligible to participate.

IDC Survey: Mailroom Survey — Trends in Mailroom Management and Operations

Robert Palmer — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey examines the results of specific data from IDC's 2025 Mailroom Management and Services Survey. IDC conducted a United States–based survey with companies to evaluate trends in mailroom management and operations. The goal of the survey was to understand current conditions and challenges in mailroom operations, adoption trends around mailroom outsourcing and digital mail, benefits and barriers to adoption of digital mailroom solutions, and ongoing trends around digital versus printed mail. This survey examines respondent perspectives regarding trends in mailroom management and operations.

IDC's Worldwide Edge Spending Guide Taxonomy, 2026: Release V1, 2026

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides details on forecast inclusions and the taxonomy for IDC's Worldwide Edge Spending Guide, released as version 1 for February 2026. It is meant to be used as a companion to IDC's Worldwide Edge Taxonomy. Technology vendors and suppliers can refer to this document to identify changes in the taxonomy from the previous version of the Edge Spending Guide forecast, understand forecast overlaps with other IDC Spending Guides, and learn about the methodological approach used in the forecast. In addition, this document serves as a comprehensive guide for stakeholders who want to navigate the complex landscape of the global edge market by understanding various technology components, geographies, key industries, domains, and specific use cases.

"The rapidly evolving landscape of edge computing is entering a new phase in 2026, driven by the accelerating integration of edge AI and the emergence of physical AI — intelligent, embodied systems capable of sensing, analyzing, and acting in real time. As organizations combine AI at the edge with IoT, robotics, AR/VR, and autonomous systems, they unlock unprecedented capabilities for on‑device processing, ultra‑low latency, and resilient, context‑aware operations. Edge AI enables instantaneous decision‑making, predictive maintenance, and adaptive automation, transforming industries such as manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, and retail. In 2026, we anticipate a sharp expansion of AI‑enhanced edge architectures, rising demand for distributed analytics, increased emphasis on energy‑efficient and sustainable AI models, and rapid growth of industry‑specific physical AI applications," said Alexandra Rotaru, Edge SG product lead and data and analytics manager, IDC’s Data and Analytics Group. "Understanding the evolving dynamics of the edge AI ecosystem is now essential for stakeholders across all sectors."

IDC's Worldwide Edge Spending Guide taxonomy and the companion forecast in IDC's Worldwide Edge Spending Guide are the result of comprehensive research conducted by IDC analysts, which aims to provide valuable insights to clients regarding the technology buyer outlook in this rapidly evolving market.

OpenAI’s $110 Billion Capital Raise Aligns Capital with Compute Control

Arnal Dayaratna — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Vendors as AI VCs: Autodesk Invests $200M in World Labs

Jeffrey Hojlo — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT