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IDC Survey Spotlight: Will AI Capabilities Support Premium Pricing in Networking? And What Would Be an Acceptable Premium?

Mark Leary — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight offers insights into the price premium large enterprises are willing to pay for AI-powered networking solutions and network management tools. These survey results are drawn from IDC's 2026 AI in Networking Special Report — a report driven by a worldwide survey of 500+ enterprise network executives and experts. This document covers both the impact and plans for supporting AI workloads across the network and using AI-powered networking solutions. The focus of this research is comprehensive, covering datacenters, cloud services, multicloud environments, network core and edge, and network management. While this IDC Survey Spotlight offers only an overview of responses relating to price premiums for network-focused AI capabilities, detailed results are available by geographic region, select country, company size, major vertical industries, respondent's role, and the AI maturity level of the respondent's organization.

"As is the case with all things technology these days, AI is having a profound effect on network service levels and capabilities as well as network engineering and operations. Increased network intelligence and insights are accelerating autonomous networking. And it couldn't happen soon enough! With network service requirements rising and system and staff resources tightening, a network infrastructure that is easier to deploy, operate, repair, protect, and evolve is an IT and business imperative in this hyperconnected digital era. For this more autonomous networking future, enterprises are preparing to pay more — and most much more — for a network infrastructure that promotes self-driving and self-healing." — Mark Leary, research director, Network Observability and Automation, IDC

IDC Survey: IDC's 2026 U.S. Workstation Workloads Survey — AI Development

Linn Huang — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

IDC's workstation opportunities CIS fielded a survey to 531 U.S. IT decision-makers in April 2026 to understand their technical workloads and workstation procurement, usage, and future purchasing intentions.

This document presents the results from the AI development section of the survey.

IDC's 2026 U.S. Workstation Workloads Survey — Technical Computing Results

Linn Huang — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

IDC’s Workstation Opportunities CIS fielded a survey to 531 U.S. IT decision-makers in April of 2026 to understand their technical workloads and workstation procurement, usage, and future purchasing intentions.

This report presents the results from the technical computing workloads section from IDC's April 2026 Syndicated Survey 2026: Workstations Survey.

Pivot Table: IDC Global StorageSphere Forecast, 2026–2030

Adam Wright — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Pivot Table forecasts the installed base of storage capacity each year in IDC's Global StorageSphere. The pivot table segments the installed base of storage capacity by region, storage media type, system/application, location, cloud status, and content manager (consumer and enterprise). The pivot table also provides the volume of data stored each year (storage utilized) by data type and the portion of the capacity of the installed base of storage available to store data.

Workday DevCon 2026: Making Workday Build Agent-Ready

Adam Reeves — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

At its annual DevCon conference on June 2, 2026, Workday announced Developer Agent, Agent-Ready Tools, and Agent Passport, a set of developer tools that represent the next phase of its Workday Build platform, introduced at Workday Rising in September 2025. Taken together, these announcements indicate that Workday is making a deliberate, and increasingly credible, effort to reposition itself as an enterprise platform for developers rather than a proprietary developer ecosystem, with security and governance as the primary differentiators.

Worldwide Quarterly SSD Trends and Four-Quarter Forecast: 1Q26

Jeff Janukowicz — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

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

2026年国内モジュール型／コンテナ型データセンターの利用動向

Mimei Ito — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

AI（Artificial Intelligence）インフラ設置需要の急拡大を背景に、国内ではモジュール型データセンター（DC）の利用が加速している。GPU（Graphics Processing Unit）サーバーの技術仕様の変化が速く、通常のDC建物の建設では対応が困難なためである。本調査レポートは、国内のモジュール型DCの利用動向を分析している。なお、IDCではコンテナ型DCをモジュール型DCのサブタイプとして定義している。

「モジュール型DC利用拡大の主因はGPUサーバー設置需要であり、特にクラウド事業者によるGPUクラウド事業の立ち上げがけん引している」とIDC Japan、Software, Services, and IT Spendingのリサーチマネージャーである伊藤未明は述べている。

IDC Survey Spotlight: What Are the Most Important Features of Standalone Document Scanners? And What Benefits Do European Companies Expect to Achieve with AI-Enhanced Scanning?

Mitri Roufka — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the most important features that European organizations consider when selecting standalone document scanners and explores the key benefits they expect from AI-enhanced scanning capabilities. It analyzes feature priorities such as resolution, speed, duplex scanning, and security-related capabilities while assessing the growing role of integrated AI applications in document workflows.

The study further highlights that standalone scanners are held to higher performance and functionality standards than multifunction peripherals, with AI increasingly viewed as a baseline requirement. It also evaluates how organizations prioritize AI-driven outcomes, emphasizing both security and quality improvements over pure productivity gains, providing insights for vendors aiming to strengthen their value propositions in this segment.

IDC Survey: Enterprise Infrastructure Pulse Survey, 4Q25: Storage Systems and Hyperconverged Infrastructure — Executive Summary

Rajiv Ranjan, Carol Sliwa, Natalya Yezhkova — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation provides a summary of the findings from IDC's 4Q25 Enterprise Infrastructure Pulse Survey of IT decision-makers with knowledge of and purchasing responsibility for their organization's storage systems and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). Taking the pulse of the enterprise IT market, the 4Q25 storage survey offers in-depth insight into current and future infrastructure requirements and investments. Areas of focus include spending plans, usage of flash storage, adoption of new storage technologies and architectures, hybrid cloud storage trends, HCI deployments, and AI workload storage requirements; this presentation focuses on findings related to all but the last area, which will be covered in a separate executive summary presentation.

The Enterprise Infrastructure Pulse is a quarterly survey focused on exploring trends in various IT infrastructure domains, including servers, storage and hyperconverged infrastructure, networking, data protection, and data logistics.

IDC Survey: IDC's 2026 U.S. Workstation Workloads Survey — Buyer Perspective

Linn Huang — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey presents results from IDC's 2026 U.S. Workstation Workloads Survey, focusing on workstation usage, adoption dynamics, and buyer behavior across organizations. The findings confirm that workstations have transitioned into a mainstream IT fleet category, with most deploying organizations maintaining significant workstation penetration and planning further growth. Workstation purchasing is largely IT led and embedded within broader refresh strategies, reinforcing their role as a core component of enterprise IT infrastructure.

AI development has emerged as the primary driver of new workstation demand, overtaking traditional workloads, while hybrid compute trends continue as organizations repatriate meaningful portions of workloads from the cloud back to local devices. Buyer priorities remain centered on performance, configurability, and end-user productivity rather than cost savings alone. Despite high awareness and prior experience with workstations, non-adoption is primarily driven by perceived lack of value and unclear use cases, indicating that future growth depends on stronger value articulation rather than pricing. Overall, the market is evolving toward a broader, value-driven role for workstations in enabling productivity, supporting AI workloads, and integrating into mainstream enterprise IT strategies.