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Adobe Workfront — Evolving AI-Driven Workflow, Collaboration and Workspace Management Across Adobe Experience Cloud

Melinda-Carol Ballou, Wayne Kurtzman — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Adobe announced enhancements to Adobe Workfront at its Summit conference last month, centered on AI-driven workflow optimization, intelligent workspace management, and expanded collaboration capabilities across the Adobe Experience Cloud ecosystem. The announcements reflect a broader shift toward embedding AI agents and natural language interfaces directly into work management platforms to help improve execution speed, data access, coordination, and decision-making. These updates position Workfront as a more integrated system of execution within Adobe’s experience platform, linking planning, content production, and operational workflows.

As organizations must optimize business execution across widely distributed geographies amid economic, geopolitical and supply chain volatility, augmenting planning in conjunction with AI is a core focus across organizations in conjunction with effective AI governance and agentic orchestration. This IDCLink outlines key elements of the Adobe Workfront announcements and assesses implications for enterprise work management, effective planning and prioritization with AI-enabled process automation.

HPE Meets SAP Sapphire's "Autonomous Enterprise" with a New Compute Scale-Up Server

Max Pepper — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

HPE, which IDC identified as a leader in its 2026 MarketScape for SAP HANA-certified server appliances, has released the Compute Scale-up Server 3250, raising the bar for SAP HANA-certified appliances, just as SAP's "Autonomous Enterprise" pivot drives demand for infrastructure that can handle compute- and memory-intensive workloads such as text/media analytics, business intelligence/data analytics, and unstructured databases alongside core ERM. The 3250's memory density, low-latency node controller, and fault-tolerant uptime position HPE to capture intensifying demand from RISE customers activating Joule Assistants and modernizing their SAP environments at scale, although a backdrop of growing SAP-driven hyperscaler competition and rising component costs will test the 3250's market demand.

U.S. Department of Commerce Commits $2B in CHIPS Act Funding to Advance Domestic Quantum Computing Strategy

Heather West, PhD — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

The Department of Commerce’s $2 billion quantum initiative marks a significant shift in U.S. quantum strategy from research support toward industrial-scale ecosystem development and domestic manufacturing acceleration. While the investments could strengthen U.S. leadership across multiple quantum modalities, the program also introduces important long-term questions around market concentration, government influence, and the sustainability of funding across future administrations.

Closing the Inspection Gap: Quantum Sensing Enters Production-Scale Semiconductor Failure Analysis

Heather West, PhD, Jeff Janukowicz, Helen Chiang — Thu, 21 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note covers QuantumDiamonds' deployment of its diamond nitrogen-vacancy (NV) quantum sensing platform at iST in Hsinchu, Taiwan, and assesses its significance for semiconductor failure analysis. As advanced packaging architectures push failure sites beyond the reach of legacy inspection tools, quantum sensing is emerging as a production-ready solution with implications that extend into the broader quantum hardware ecosystem.

Google Unveils Gemini 3.5 Flash at I/O 2026

Ramon T. Llamas — Thu, 21 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

At I/O 2026, Google introduced Gemini 3.5 Flash, its latest artificial intelligence (AI) model capable of analyzing and understanding data and creating and executing independent agentic workflows. At the same time, it introduced multiple upgrades to its generative artificial intelligence capabilities and breathed new experiences into some of its oldest and often-used applications, saving time and effort for the user.

IBM and the U.S. Department of Commerce Announce Anderon: America's First Quantum Wafer Foundry

Heather West, PhD — Thu, 21 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

IBM and the U.S. Department of Commerce have announced a Letter of Intent to establish Anderon, America's first dedicated quantum wafer foundry, backed by a proposed $1 billion CHIPS Act award matched by $1 billion from IBM, creating a pure-play 300mm fabrication facility in Albany, New York, open to the entire quantum hardware industry. IDC views this as a watershed infrastructure commitment: It supplies the domestic manufacturing foundation that the U.S. quantum ecosystem has lacked and signals a clear federal intent to anchor quantum supply chain independence at home.

IDC Survey: Sustainable AI Infrastructure Trends, 2026 — EMEA

Katharina Grimme — Thu, 21 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey examines how organizations across EMEA are navigating the intersection of AI and sustainability, drawing on responses from 606 organizations with 500 or more employees across diverse industries. The findings reveal that AI has moved firmly from pilot to pillar: a growing majority now consider AI central to their sustainable transformation agenda, with predictive AI leading adoption and agentic AI emerging as a high-potential next wave. However, scale brings complexity — organizations face growing challenges in aligning financial and ESG ROI, validating vendor sustainability claims, and managing AI’s environmental footprint. Meanwhile, data security and privacy have nearly doubled in prominence as concerns since 2024.

On the vendor side, buyer expectations have sharpened considerably. Responsible AI performance, proven capability, and ecosystem partner strength now outweigh price and legacy relationships in procurement decisions, and buyers consistently prefer KPI-based sustainability disclosures over qualitative narratives. The survey concludes that EMEA has entered an execution phase for sustainable AI, one in which competitive advantage for technology suppliers will increasingly depend on delivering integrated, scalable solutions with credible, outcome-linked proof of sustainability performance.

IDC's Worldwide Compute and Storage ODM Direct Infrastructure Taxonomy, 2026

Leon Kao, Kuba Stolarski — Thu, 21 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides a comprehensive overview of and definitions for servers and enterprise storage in the context of IDC's ODM Direct infrastructure and supply chain research, including the Service Provider Infrastructure Supply Chain CIS and the Worldwide Computing Platforms and Storage ODM Direct System Tracker. The definitions provided in this document represent the scope of IDC's ODM Direct server and enterprise storage hardware research and tracker deliverables. This taxonomy outlines market segmentations and measurement methodologies for the ODM Direct industry including classification by technology, vendor, and value metrics.

"ODM Direct has become the largest single path to market for server and storage technology," said Leon Kao, senior research manager for IDC's Compute Infrastructure and Service Provider Trends research practice. "IDC's research in the ODM Direct segment and the infrastructure component supply chain is critical to understanding how infrastructure technologies will shape the future of cloud, edge, and AI solutions."

Red Hat Summit 2026 Demonstrates a Closing of the Gap Between Capability and Production

Adam Reeves — Thu, 21 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Red Hat Summit 2026, held in Atlanta on May 12 and 13, 2026, delivered a broad range of announcements, including news on VM migration, agentic AI platform, and sovereign cloud, collectively shifting the company's posture from the capability breadth established at Summit 2025 toward operational depth and production-grade governance. Developer enablement runs as a connecting thread across all three areas, and the announcements collectively reflect the pattern IDC observes broadly in enterprise platform markets: Initial adoption driven by capability availability gives way to sustained demand for the tooling that governs, secures, and scales what was adopted.

Red Hat Summit 2026: Stable Infrastructure in an Unstable AI World

Adam Resnick — Thu, 21 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

At Summit 2026, Red Hat made the case that the infrastructure layer is where enterprise AI either scales or stalls, and that its platform is designed for that moment. In a model and tooling environment that is moving faster than most enterprises can absorb, Red Hat’s pitch is that a stable, vendor‑neutral infrastructure stack is the durable asset. For platform engineers and IT automation engineers, the announcements describe a redefinition of the role, from executing operations to governing the agents that execute them. Governance maturity and platform engineering capacity remain the variables that will determine how quickly enterprises can capture the value Red Hat is describing.