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Beyond the Agentic SOC: Splunk and Cisco Build the Data and Observability Layer for AI

Michelle Abraham, Duncan Brown, Christopher Kissel, Katie Norton — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

At .conf26, Splunk paired new agentic skills for detection, threat hunting, investigation, and governance with a broader set of foundational moves designed to make machine data usable for AI at scale. To help both security and AI teams track the behavior of AI agents in their environment, Agent Observability is designed to monitor the performance and cost of AI agents and prevent undesired actions before they can be executed.

Fastly Adds AI Runtime Control and AI Firewall to its AI Portfolio

Matthew Flug — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Fastly recently introduced AI Runtime Control (ARC) alongside AI Firewall and new API Security capabilities, with ARC serving as a managed gateway that channels enterprise model calls across public and self-hosted providers and centrally enforces access, budget, rate-limit, failover, and logging policies. The launch adds model governance to Fastly's delivery and security portfolio, offering customers a way to manage AI access, spend, and provider resilience.

IDC Survey Spotlight: Are Customers Still Prioritizing Investments in Print and Document Infrastructure?

Evan Hardie — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the business priorities shaping print and document environments in 2026. Based on findings from IDC's Cloud and Print Security Survey (syndicated), the study explores the role print continues to play within business operations and evaluates the key investments organizations are making to support secure, efficient, and resilient document infrastructure.

The document highlights how print security has emerged as the leading priority across organizations, surpassing initiatives related to digital transformation, cloud platforms, AI-enabled capabilities, and cost management. It also provides insight into the factors influencing print investment decisions and the opportunities for technology suppliers to align their solutions with evolving customer requirements.

OpenAI Turns Frontier Cybercapability Into an Operating Model for Defenders

Katie Norton, Grace Trinidad — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

OpenAI released a frontier model with significant advances in cybersecurity, subsidized access for frontline defenders, and an operating model for continuous vulnerability management at its Intelligence at Work: Cyber event. OpenAI is treating cyberdefense as an operations problem it can help solve, a position that extends its reach from model capability into how security work gets done.

Quantum World Congress 2026 Reflects Growing Coordination Across the Quantum Ecosystem

Heather West, PhD — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Quantum World Congress (QWC) 2026 demonstrated growing coordination across the quantum computing ecosystem, with hardware vendors, technology providers, governments, universities, and manufacturers increasingly working together to advance quantum computing, infrastructure, applications, and workforce development. The breadth of activity reinforces IDC's view that progress in the quantum market will depend not only on advances in quantum hardware but also on the development of the partnerships, talent, infrastructure, and supply chains needed to translate those advances into commercial and scientific value.

Worldwide Quarterly SSD Trends and Four-Quarter Forecast: 2Q26

Jeff Janukowicz — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Pivot Table provides worldwide industry solid state drive (SSD) quarterly trends for the second calendar quarter of 2026 and provides a four-quarter forecast for client SSD units, revenue, and capacity and enterprise SSD capacity and revenue.

阿里云栖大会2026：践行AI全栈，押注芯模云

Rachel Liu, Tina Cui, Qijin Chen, Eric Wei, Lee Zhang — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

2026年被业界定义为AI智能体元年，云厂商集体上调算力价格、模型企业业绩迅猛增长、Token经济成为中国AI产业最核心热点。IDC预测2026年全球Token消耗量约为40000万亿次，较2025年增长约20倍。Token使用量暴增为算力供给、模型迭代、单位Token成本降低、应用入口争夺等方面带来了一系列机遇和挑战。阿里云作为中国市场最领先的云厂商，正从计算、存储、网络、能源和设施、模型等各个方面进行投入和创新，致力于加快推动人工智能赋能千行百业。

Cohesity Catalyst: Expanded DSPM Capabilities and Agent Recovery Pave the Way to Autonomous Resiliency

Jennifer Glenn, Johnny Yu — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

At its Catalyst 2026 event (September 16–17), Cohesity introduced two capabilities that extend its resilience story from infrastructure to data itself: automation that routes Cyera-powered DSPM classification directly into backup, retention, and recovery policy as data is created and reclassified, and Agent Resilience, a natively built capability that protects AI agent memory and configuration and can roll a misbehaving agent back to a known-good state. IDC finds both announcements are a reasonable bet that data security and data protection belong on one operational surface, but with the two disciplines still running separate playbooks and success metrics internally, the harder work ahead for most businesses is organizational, not technical.

Comcast and Fastly Partner to Redefine Content Delivery Model Through a Programmable Edge Platform

Ghassan Abdo, Jitesh Bhayani — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

On September 10, 2026, Comcast and Fastly announced a partnership that embeds Fastly's programmable edge software directly into Comcast's nationwide network, including the company's virtual cable modem termination system (vCMTS) infrastructure. The deployment extends across more than 200 edge locations and is designed to improve streaming performance, reduce latency, and support emerging workloads such as gaming, edge compute, security services, and AI inference. Unlike traditional CDN relationships that operate alongside provider networks, Fastly's software becomes part of Comcast's network architecture. IDC views the announcement as a notable step toward a more integrated edge services model, where connectivity, content delivery, security, and compute capabilities converge on a common edge platform. Beyond improving content delivery, the partnership highlights how service providers can leverage distributed edge assets to support future AI-enabled and latency-sensitive services while creating new opportunities to monetize infrastructure investments.

IDC Survey Spotlight: What Is the Impact of AI Workloads on Enterprise Networks?

Taranvir Singh — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight examines how AI workloads are impacting enterprise networks today, and how organizations expect that will change over the next two years. The results are based on IDC's July 2026 Enterprise Infrastructure Pulse Survey (n = 856) enterprise network executives and experts.

"The impact of AI workloads on networks increases as AI use cases evolve and move from pilot to production, pushing vendors to evolve networking solutions for growing inferencing and agentic AI demands," notes Taranvir Singh, research manager, Networking and Infrastructure Services at IDC.