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IDC Survey Spotlight: Which Provider Types do European Enterprises See as Best and Worst Placed to Meet Their Future WAN Needs, and Why?

Masarra Mohamed — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights results from IDC’s EMEA Enterprise Communications and Collaboration Survey in August 2025 (N = 1,716). It examines how European enterprises perceive four provider types — cloud providers, IT partners, network service providers (telcos), and in-house IT teams — in terms of their ability to address future WAN requirements. This analysis uses a Sankey diagram to visualize the flow between provider perceptions and the service attributes driving those views. It concludes with IDC’s strategic take: cloud providers lead on broad IT capability, but poor customer treatment across the market (particularly among telcos) keeps the competitive landscape wide open for providers that can pair technical depth with superior service experience.

Q.ANT Deploys Analog Photonic Native Processing Units at LRZ for Energy Efficient AI

Heather West, PhD — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Q.ANT’s deployment of its second-generation analog photonic Native Processing Units (NPUs) at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) marks an important step in moving alternative computing architectures from experimental validation into production-level evaluation, as the industry seeks new approaches to address the growing energy and performance constraints of AI infrastructure. By demonstrating integration into existing HPC environments and reporting significant gains in throughput and energy efficiency, the deployment highlights the potential role of photonic co-processing within increasingly heterogeneous architectures, while signaling that organizations should begin evaluating such technologies for energy-constrained, compute-intensive workloads.

European Enterprise Communication Service Provider Profile: AT&T Business

Masarra Mohamed — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation provides an in-depth analysis of AT&T Business’ strategy, operations, and market positioning in the enterprise communications sector. It begins with IDC’s view, highlighting AT&T’s focus on delivering secure, scalable global connectivity and enabling digital transformation for multinational corporations. It first provides an overview of AT&T Business’ organizational structure, leadership team, and strategic priorities, emphasizing its role as a network-enabled technology provider integrating connectivity, edge computing, and cybersecurity. It then examines financial performance, noting the shift toward next-generation connectivity, which now accounts for 60% of AT&T Business Solutions’ revenue, despite overall revenue pressure from legacy declines. The presentation also assesses AT&T Business’ competitive positioning compared with Europe-headquartered telcos. It also details AT&T’s global infrastructure assets, portfolio, partner ecosystem, and go-to-market and messaging strategies, which enable the company to deliver consistent managed services across more than 200 countries. Finally, IDC recommends that AT&T enhance marketing visibility, promote its NetBond platform, and leverage automation and AI to expand beyond traditional large multinational corporations.

HP Inc. Strategy, Products, and Solutions at Dscoop Edge

Tim Greene — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note highlights some of the key takeaways from the recent Dscoop Edge Rockies event, where HP Inc. unveiled new products and solutions that help understand the company’s strategy in the production print market.

IDC’s Worldwide Hard Disk Drive Taxonomy, 2026

Edward Burns — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study defines and provides a framework for analyzing the worldwide hard disk drive market.

“After another year of strong growth in the enterprise HDD market, the HDD industry remains in the midst of a supply constrained environment with strong demand from enterprise and cloud hyperscalers outstripping industry supply capacity,” according to Ed Burns, research director on HDD and storage technologies, IDC. Burns adds, “This will likely continue until higher-capacity drives, such as 40TB and 50TB HDDs, begin shipping in the next couple of years.”

JFrog Establishes a Trust Layer for Agentic AI: Extending the Software Supply Chain to Skills, Models, and MCPs

Jim Mercer — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

JFrog, best known for Artifactory, its universal binary repository manager, recently announced new capabilities for the Agent Skills Registry and MCP Registry, as well as deeper integration with NVIDIA, representing a strategic evolution of the software supply chain into the agentic AI era. As autonomous agents become active participants in development and operations, enterprises require a system of record that governs not just code, but models, skills, and runtime connectivity. JFrog is positioning Artifactory and its broader platform as the new control plane. The NVIDIA integration aligns JFrog with a key AI infrastructure provider and embeds it into emerging reference architectures for agentic AI. The result is a new approach to AI governance, provenance, and developer experience that reinforces JFrog's relevance in the AI-driven agent development life cycle (ADLC).

Powering Progress Together: Key Takeaways from the IDC Utilities Xchange 2026

Roberta Bigliani, Gaia Gallotti, Jean-François Segalotto, John Villali — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation highlights some key topics discussed at the 15th edition of the IDC European Utilities Xchange (IDCUEX), held in Valencia, Spain, on March 2 and 3, 2026, under the theme "Powering Progress Together."

The two-day event was attended by around 55 European utility executives from 23 countries, representing 42 utilities and energy companies, plus business partners Schneider Electric, Bidgely, OverIT, Ferranti, and Gentrack.

Through keynote presentations, fireside chats, workshops, roundtable discussions, and more, the community focused on scaling digital and AI-driven transformation, reinforcing cybersecurity, modernizing infrastructure, and deepening collaboration across the ecosystem. The event brought together utilities, regulators, technology partners, and customers. Flexibility, innovation, divergent thinking, and workforce development surfaced as core enablers of a resilient, inclusive, and future-ready energy system.

Quantinuum, NVIDIA, AWS, and Hiverge Advance AI-Driven Quantum Algorithm Development

Heather West, PhD — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Quantinuum's March 2026 announcement shows how AI is starting to play a meaningful role in speeding up quantum algorithm development, helping address one of the biggest barriers to broader adoption. By bringing together AI, high-performance computing, and quantum hardware through a strong partner ecosystem, the company highlights a more practical, integrated path forward that could accelerate real-world use cases and influence how the quantum market evolves.

World Backup Day: A Timely Reflection on Data Growth, Storage Complexity, and Resilience

Adam Wright — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

World Backup Day (observed each year on March 31) continues to be a useful moment for organizations and consumers to reflect on the importance of data resiliency, particularly as digital ecosystems become more complex and data creation accelerates across every industry segment. The annual event underscores the necessity of taking a proactive stance toward data protection. It also highlights the growing need for technology suppliers to deliver solutions that are adaptive, automated, and capable of safeguarding distributed data assets from an expanding spectrum of risks.

Worldwide Semiconductor Market: Foundry Market Revenue, Capacity, Utilization Rate, and Tech Node Analysis, 2026

Galen Zeng — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Pivot Table examines the performance of the worldwide semiconductor foundry market. The following vendor and market data are provided:

Revenue analysis:

Worldwide foundry market: Annual data
Worldwide foundry market: Quarterly data

Capacity:

Worldwide foundry market: Total capacity analysis
Worldwide foundry market: Total capacity by region

Utilization:

Worldwide foundry market: Total utilization
Worldwide foundry market: Total utilization by vendor

Process node:

Worldwide foundry market: Process node
Worldwide foundry market: Process node — advanced process
Worldwide foundry market: Process node — mature process

General information:

Exchange rate