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Citrix Platform Credits: Bridging Managed Cloud Workspaces and On-Prem Infrastructure

Filippo Vanara — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 05:00:00 GMT

On Tuesday November 3^rd, 2026, Citrix announced the introduction of Citrix Platform Credits. This strategic shift moves the vendor away from rigid per-named-user licensing toward a unified, consumption-based draw-down model designed to reward volume usage while accommodating multi-cloud and hybrid deployments across Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and on-premises infrastructure.

IBM Quantum Developer Conference 2026: Advancing Toward Industry Impact by 2028

Heather West, PhD — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 05:00:00 GMT

IBM’s 2026 Quantum Developer Conference highlighted the company’s push to build a complete quantum computing platform, combining advances in processor performance and error correction with software, hybrid workflows, and HPC integration. While these developments expand the tools available to researchers and enterprise developers, the path to fault-tolerant computing and measurable industry impact remains a work in progress. The next challenge is translating growing enterprise experimentation into repeatable business value and demonstrating advantages over increasingly capable classical alternatives.

IDC Survey Spotlight: Which Industries Are Leading AI Deployment at the Edge?

Olga Yashkova — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight discusses the 73% of organizations that have deployed or are piloting agentic AI at the edge, and how pilots that move into production are the suppliers' next wave of demand. This document also examines the stage of adoption of agentic AI at the edge across industries, drawing on IDC's August 2026 EdgeView Survey (n = 650). Respondents represent organizations with 500+ employees that currently use at least one form of edge computing. They are at the director level or higher decision-makers across IT, line of business, and operations.

IDC Survey: Retail Store Operations, Frictionless Retail, Loss Prevention, and Employee Engagement — Asia/Pacific

Filippo Battaini — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey analyzes findings from IDC's 2026 Retail Technologies and Business Process Trends Survey, with a focus on physical store operations, frictionless retail, loss prevention, and employee engagement. Specifically, this presentation helps readers understand top business priorities and competitive challenges facing retailers in Asia/Pacific in 2026; identify the most urgent store operations pain points (including shrinkage, inventory accuracy, and workforce management); analyze initiatives addressing frictionless customer experience and loss prevention; map two-year technology investment plans across RFID, computer vision, mobile tools, cybersecurity, and edge computing; examine frontline workforce empowerment strategies; and assess the adoption and planned use cases of agentic AI in store operations contexts.

Parallels RAS 22: Modernizing the Hybrid Workspace Through Continuous Security and Infrastructure Flexibility

Filippo Vanara — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 05:00:00 GMT

On Thursday, November 12^th, 2026, Parallels announced the release of Parallels RAS (Remote Application Server) version 22, introducing key capabilities focused on endpoint security, remote session auditing, streamlined storage access, and expanded hybrid cloud infrastructure support. The release targets core operational friction points confronting distributed enterprises, particularly the challenge of securing unmanaged contractor and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) hardware without imposing heavy management software on every machine. Central to the update are client device posture checks that validate endpoint integrity, full session recording and playback for compliance audits, a native File Access module leveraging existing SMB network shares, and expanded integration for Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Hybrid environments.

Verizon completes Thames Freeport multisite private 5G, one of Europe's largest implementations

Alejandro Cadenas — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 05:00:00 GMT

On November 10, Verizon Business and Thames Freeport announced completion of a multisite private 5G platform across five industrial sites in the UK's Thames Freeport corridor, one of Europe's largest private 5G implementations. Tenants include DP World London Gateway and Logistics Park, Ford Dagenham and the Port of Tilbury, each running an independent network core for data sovereignty. Trials of AI-driven use cases such as vehicle damage detection and digital truck processing are under way. IDC believes the deployment makes Verizon's strongest case yet that private 5G can be sold as a managed, multisite service rather than a one-off campus project. The commercial proof still lies ahead: the release does not disclose contract value or application revenue, and all networks rely on a single supplier whose business is being sold. Buyers and rivals should treat Thames as the benchmark to match, and plan for supplier continuity in all upcoming tenders.

IDC Survey: Enterprise Infrastructure Pulse, 2026 — Networking Executive Summary, Part 2

Brandon Butler, Paul Nicholson, Taranvir Singh, Leslie Rosenberg — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey explores how enterprise networking buyers are approaching network management, datacenter networking, and services in the age of AI. It looks at network management priorities (observability, automation, and AI-powered and agentic management), datacenter networking vendor selection and AI traffic growth, and the role of consulting, integration, and managed services providers. The analysis draws on IDC's Enterprise Infrastructure Pulse — Networking Survey, which surveyed more than 850 IT decision-makers and influencers across the Americas, Europe, and APAC in June 2026.

"AI is reshaping how enterprises manage, build, and buy network infrastructure. IDC survey data shows that security and agentic AI tie as the top network management investment priorities (36% each), but buyers are evenly split on how much autonomy they want from AI management tools. In the datacenter, AI-driven capabilities are the top reason for considering a new networking vendor (22%), and 32% choose AI switch vendors based on integration with a broader AI stack, ahead of staying with the incumbent (29%). AI agent-to-agent traffic is expected to become the leading traffic growth driver, rising from 20.5% today to 33.3% in two years. Network equipment manufacturers lead consulting (36%) and ongoing operations (30%), and AI-enabled support is the top service capability (38%)," said Brandon Butler, senior research manager, Network Infrastructure and Services at IDC.

Japan's Emergency Cyber Package Centralizes Incident Response, but Funding, Legal Limits, and Basic Cyber Hygiene Remain Open Questions

Craig Robinson, Yoriyuki Yamashita, Cathy Huang — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Japan's ¥10 billion emergency cybersecurity package, adopted on November 6, 2026, shifts the center of gravity for incident response from individual companies toward a government-coordinated model built around the National Cybersecurity Office (NCO), and it signals that Tokyo now treats private-sector breaches as a national security matter. For technology and security leaders operating in Japan, the practical consequence is a closer and more formal relationship with the state, covering faster incident reporting, shared threat intelligence, and expanding legal powers, whose value will depend on how unresolved questions over funding, data deletion, and communications secrecy are answered.

Octave OnTour Live 2026: Re-Architecting for the Industrial AI Future

Jonathan Lang — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 05:00:00 GMT

After the software spin-off from Hexagon AB earlier this year, Octave convened its global community to articulate the company's strategic direction across a series of in-person events. Success in the market will depend on Octave's ability to execute an ambitious modernization in support of key use cases across the asset life cycle.

A Mercurial Friend: How Agentic Model Routing Can Help or Hurt Frontier AI Labs

Daeil Chun, Alessandro Perilli — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Perspective examines agentic AI as a double-edged sword for frontier AI labs. Agentic AI drives inference demand, but its model routing and orchestration also open the door to open-weight models in hybrid architectures. Using recent IDC survey data, the document explores the forces pulling enterprise model strategy in both directions and offers advice for frontier AI labs on how to respond.

"Agentic AI is a friend to frontier AI labs, but a mercurial one. It can multiply inference demand for foundation models but can also make it easy to swap in open-weight models in hybrid architectures. But then the same hybrid architecture can also increase the use of commercial models by routing high reasoning tasks to more powerful models. Labs that compete across the hybrid architecture, rather than against it, will win the work that matters most as agentic AI matures." — Daeil Chun, senior research manager, AI Research, IDC