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IBM's Dual-Architecture Processor Brings Native Arm Execution to the Mainframe

Kuba Stolarski, Jeff Janukowicz, Brent Ellis, Dr. William Lee, Jim Hines — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

At the Hot Chips 2026 conference, IBM disclosed a next-generation processor for future IBM Z and LinuxONE systems that executes both the z/Architecture and Arm (AArch64) instruction sets natively on every core. IBM describes it as the industry's first dual-architecture mainframe processor and the first hardware result of its April 2026 collaboration with Arm. The disclosure matters less for its peak specifications than for the software boundary it moves. Running Arm-based Linux on the same silicon that runs z/OS and existing Linux workloads, and exposing the platform's cryptography, compression, and AI accelerators to Arm software through standard Linux interfaces, positions IBM Z and LinuxONE to host the growing body of cloud-native and AI software written for Arm without asking customers to give up the reliability, security, and availability that keep mission-critical workloads on the platform.

IDC Survey Spotlight: What Was the Direct Business Impact of the March 2026 Drone Strikes on Cloud Datacenters in the UAE and Bahrain?

Rob Tiffany — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at the direct business impact of the March 2026 drone strikes on cloud datacenters in the UAE and Bahrain. It draws on data collected from IDC's Cloud Pulse Survey in June 2026.

IDC Survey: AI MFP Survey Results — MPDS Customer Perception and Adoption Plans for AI MFP

Robert Palmer — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey presents findings from IDC’s U.S. AI MFP Survey, conducted in May 2026, examining customer perceptions and adoption plans for AI-infused multifunction printers (MFPs). The presentation covers factors driving AI technology selection, current AI adoption levels in print and document workflows, and the capabilities and integration requirements organizations expect from AI MFPs.

The presentation further examines how organizations evaluate AI MFP performance, including success metrics, deployment model preferences, and product line expectations, providing MFP vendors and technology suppliers with a data-grounded view of where the U.S. market currently stands and what will shape purchasing decisions in AI-capable print infrastructure going forward.

Market Forecast: Worldwide and U.S. External Enterprise Storage Systems Forecast, 2026–2030

Carol Sliwa, Natalya Yezhkova — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation provides the five-year forecast for the external enterprise storage systems market and delivers insights into the drivers and inhibitors of growth.

"Databases, AI, and analytics will be the leading workloads driving growth in the external enterprise storage systems market through 2030, as demand for all-flash arrays remains strong to meet requirements for high-performance infrastructure. IDC expects high flash memory costs and storage drive shortages will have an impact on spending through 2027." — Carol Sliwa, research director, Storage and Data Management, Enterprise Infrastructure

NVIDIA FY 2Q27 Results: Orchestrating the AI Infrastructure Economy

Matthew Eastwood, Ashish Nadkarni — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

OpenAI Pulls Its Models from Cursor as the Agentic Coding Battle Intensifies

Arnal Dayaratna — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Salesforce Expands Headless 360, Moving Beyond Developer Enablement to Enterprise-Wide Agentic Access

Adam Reeves — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

On August 19, 2026, Salesforce announced an expansion of Headless 360 from a developer-focused programmatic access layer into an enterprise-wide set of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, reusable skills, and cross-channel tools spanning every major cloud in its portfolio. The update reflects Salesforce's intent to make agentic access a means for both people and AI agents to interact with the platform.

Navigating the Next Phase of Sustainability Software: From Compliance Foundation to AI-Powered Business Value

Amy Cravens, Bjoern Stengel — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Perspective maps five trends shaping the operational-value phase of enterprise sustainability and ESG software and provides specific vendor guidance. IDC's 2026 Sustainability Software Survey (n = 816, 17 countries) finds AI-driven automation and analytics the number 1 planned investment area (43%), and 80% of enterprises expect to increase software spend over the next two years. Yet data quality — not AI capability — is the defining barrier: 49% cite reliability and accuracy as their top challenge.

"Sustainability software is entering its operational maturity phase, and the competitive rules are changing. The compliance wave built the market; what defines it next is whether vendors can deliver auditable, integration-grade data that finance, supply chain, and operations can use. With 71% of buyers willing to pay a premium for AI and 80% increasing spend, the demand is unambiguous — but so is the bar. Vendors still leading with feature breadth are ceding ground to those who make data quality a first-class product commitment." — Bjoern Stengel, global sustainability research and practice lead, IDC

Will AI Make Supply Chains Sustainable? Infrastructure Decides

Dan Versace — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Perspective lays out four things: why the lock-in risk is real and rising; the specific role that infrastructure services play in defusing the risk; how vendors can meet emerging market organizations where they actually are on maturity, pricing, and integration; and which technologies do the work once the relationship is in place. Rising AI demand in emerging market supply chains does not have to reinforce fossil fuel use. This outcome is a choice made at the infrastructure layer — the layer these organizations already trust most. Providers that lead with efficient, lower-carbon infrastructure; price on proven value; close the reporting integration gap; and attach to the sustainability initiatives already in motion can bend the trajectory before it sets. The demand is here. The buyer appetite is here. The technology levers are here. What remains is execution, and that is a story the providers and buyers in this market get to write.

"The complexity of integrating sustainability processes into existing supply chains is necessitating an AI-first approach to supply chain dynamics. The influx of interest and investment in supply chain–specific AI agents and technologies has led to many organizations facing competing interests (speed of implementation versus thoughtful, sustainable transformation). Vendors in this space now play an incredibly important role in ensuring that sustainable AI and AI for sustainability services for the supply chain are delivered hand in hand to prevent fossil fuel lock-in in emerging markets." — Dan Versace, research analyst, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Business Services, IDC

IDC Innovators: AI-Native/Enabled Sustainability Software Across the Product Life Cycle, 2026

Amy Cravens — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

For a decade, sustainability software meant reporting: dashboards that counted carbon after the fact and tools built for the annual disclosure cycle. That era is ending.

This IDC Innovators presentation profiles eight companies embedding AI directly into the decisions that create environmental impact, from how a grocer orders produce to how an aluminum plant blends recycled scrap, from the fate of a returned sweater to which carrier moves a container. Afresh, Alternew, carbmee, Kaizen Circularity AI, LiquiDonate, Packgine, Refiberd, and VesselBot look nothing alike, yet all treat sustainability and profitability as the same optimization problem.

Who made the cut, what makes each genuinely AI native, and where incumbents are most exposed: this document has the answers.