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Amdocs Introduces aOS — and Telecom Steps Closer to Agentic AI Everywhere

Chris Silberberg, Ahmad Latif Ali, Peter Chahal — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Amdocs announced aOS, an agentic operating system, designed to accelerate AI adoption by enabling secure, scalable collaboration among domain‑aware AI agents and improving execution across customer, service, and network workflows. This launch is a major milestone in Amdocs' support for AI capabilities within telecoms and the company's wider client base, providing a holistic vision to deliver agentic AI at scale across BSS, OSS, and network solutions.

How Important Is Workflow Integration Capability When Selecting a Print Hardware Provider by Contract Type?

Sharon McNee — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights an extract from IDC's European Imaging, Printing, and Document Solutions (IPDS) Survey, conducted in June 2025 among 2,007 respondents from France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, the Nordics, Czechia, and Poland.

This survey covered topics including print services provider selection criteria, the importance of services and solutions beyond print, the shift from paper to digital, content management, esignatures, print security, cloud-based device/print management, remote assistance, and augmented reality.

Survey analyses are available by region, company size, industry, types of decision-maker, and types of print contract. For further information, please contact your IDC account manager.

How important is it to include scanned pages in your print contract offerings?

Sharon McNee — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights an extract from IDC's European Imaging, Printing, and Document Solutions (IPDS) Survey, conducted in 2025 among 2,007 respondents from France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, the Nordics, Czechia, and Poland.

This survey covered topics including print services provider selection criteria, the importance of services and solutions beyond print, the shift from paper to digital, esignatures, print security, and cloud-based device and print management.

Survey analyses are available by region, company size, industry, types of decision-maker, and types of print contract. For further information, please contact your IDC account manager.

IDC Survey Spotlight: Which IaaS Networking Capabilities Are Influencing Hyperscale Cloud Provider Choice for AI Workloads?

Taranvir Singh — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight offers insights into the most important IaaS networking capabilities that enterprises prioritize when choosing a cloud service provider for hosting AI workloads. These survey results are drawn from IDC's 2025 AI in Networking Special Report — a report driven by a worldwide survey of 500+ enterprise network executives and experts. The report covers both the impact and plans for supporting AI workloads across the network and using AI-powered networking solutions. The focus of this document is comprehensive, covering datacenters, cloud services, multicloud environments, network core and edge, and network management. While this IDC Survey Spotlight offers only a view into total responses, results are available by geographic region, select country, company size, major vertical industries, respondent role, and the AI maturity level of the respondent's organization.

"Enterprises increasingly prioritize IaaS networking capabilities that deliver high-speed connectivity and end-to-end security for their organization-specific AI use cases. This is essential to facilitate seamless AI-related data workflows across cloud and on-premises environments, particularly for tasks like data ingestion, model training, inferencing, and delivering results," notes Taranvir Singh, research manager, Cloud Networking Services at IDC. "As organizations advance their AI strategies, multiple other IaaS networking functions that either support AI workloads or augment with AI capabilities are increasingly influencing hyperscale cloud provider selection decisions."

Connectivity Hub Profile: Frankfurt

Jan Hein Bakkers — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation analyzes the critical role of connectivity hubs in the digital ecosystem. It provides a detailed look at the developments in the Frankfurt region in terms of datacenters, cloud providers, Internet exchanges, and network infrastructure.

Five Key Trends in Telecom Network Infrastructure 2026

Ajeet Das — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation illustrates five key telecom network infrastructure trends expected to shape 2026. These trends are 5G SA expansion, cloud-native deployment, a ramp-up in 800G pluggable, a shift to 1.6T technology, and edge computing for AI.

Worldwide Server Market Summary and Outlook, 3Q25

Kuba Stolarski — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation offers an overview of the worldwide server market, related trends, and forecasts for the third quarter of 2025. Detailed results were released on December 11, 2025, in IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker and on December 18, 2025, in IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker Forecast. This presentation provides insights into the regional, vendor, and market-level performance as well as details on key developments and trends in the market, including accelerated servers (i.e., GPUs and other accelerators), offering advice to suppliers on how to navigate various issues present in the current market and developing over the next five years.

Circular Economy Market Size for Enterprise Purchase of Refurbished PCs

Lara Greden — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note provides a snapshot of IDC's worldwide market forecast for enterprise buying of used PCs and related services.

Datacenters as Grid Assets: Regulatory Turning Point and the Nuclear Pivot

Olga Yashkova — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note explores the latest developments in the relations between datacenters and the utility grid, coupled with the latest related regulations in the United States and their impact on the datacenter market. Surging AI-driven datacenter energy demand is outpacing grid capacity, prompting a regulatory shift that repositions datacenters as active grid assets. Federal and state initiatives, including the DOE's emergency orders and Texas SB 6, now require datacenters to support grid reliability. The government's "nuclear + compute" strategy, fast-tracked by EO 14301, is accelerating modular nuclear deployment to provide scalable, carbon-neutral power but introduces new operational and financial challenges for datacenter operators.

Dynatrace Perform 2026: From Observability to Supervised Autonomous Operations

Jim Mercer, Stephen Elliot, Katie Norton, Shannon Kalvar, Archana Venkatraman — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Dynatrace Perform 2026 was recently held in Las Vegas and marked a clear inflection point in the evolution of observability, positioning Dynatrace beyond monitoring and analytics toward supervised autonomous operations. The event underscored how IT complexity, particularly from agentic AI and LLM-based applications, is forcing enterprises to rethink how they operate, govern, and scale digital systems. With the introduction of Dynatrace Intelligence and a strong emphasis on deterministic AI fusion with agentic AI, unified data, and customer-validated outcomes, Dynatrace made a credible case that it is well positioned to deliver on this transition.