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Figma’s Product Expansion Illustrates Design-Led Development as an Emerging Form of Intent-Driven Development

Arnal Dayaratna — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

IDC Survey: Sustainability Software, 2026 — Vendor Selection and Satisfaction Trends

Amy Cravens — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey examines how organizations select, consolidate, and rate sustainability software vendors in 2026. Drawing on survey results on 816 organizations across 17 countries and 15 industries, IDC finds vendor selection is shifting from scale to fit: niche specialists are defending distinct segments as institutional platforms capture the largest, fastest-growing share of the market. Stacks are consolidating rather than diversifying, and satisfaction now tracks organizational maturity more than stack size or vendor type. Vendors that pair platform breadth with defensible niche depth are best positioned as the market bifurcates.

"The sustainability software market is splitting into two winning strategies: platforms that win on breadth and incumbency, and specialists that win by going deep in a niche. Fit is beating feature count, and growth is coming from vendors expanding within the accounts they already hold, not necessarily from displacing incumbents," said Amy Cravens, research manager, Sustainability/ESG Software at IDC.

Market Forecast: Europe Page Volume Forecast, 2026-2030

Phil Sargeant — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides the five-year forecast for the European hardcopy page volume market. It contains IDC’s review and forecast of the page volume market for the home and office segments in Europe from 2025 to 2030. Data for 2025 is recorded, and data for 2026 to 2030 is forecast.

“European page volumes will continue to decline as organizations implement new AI and digitization processes that reduce the demand for printed pages in the business process,” said Phil Sargeant, senior program director, Imaging, Hardcopy Devices, and Document Solutions at IDC.

Market Forecast: Worldwide Cloud and Datacenter Networks Forecast, 2026–2030

Paul Nicholson, Petr Jirovsky — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation provides the five-year forecast for the cloud and datacenter networks market and delivers insights into the drivers and inhibitors of growth. This presentation also forecasts and analyzes key trends impacting the worldwide market for datacenter networking for the 2026–2030 period.

“The datacenter network market is entering a period of robust growth, fueled by AI workloads spanning generative AI through to inference, alongside accelerating cloud expansion and network modernization.” — Paul Nicholson, research vice president, Cloud and Datacenter Networks, IDC

Dassault Systèmes AEC Summit 2026: AI Datacenter Boom Expands the Engineering Software Opportunity

Jeffrey Hojlo — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note provides key takeaways and analysis from the Dassault Systèmes AEC Summit recently held in Velizy-Villacoublay, France.

"Although construction organizations have often looked to manufacturing organizations for best practices in streamlining production and project processes, the datacenter or AI factory building boom of the past couple of years has brought the need for modularity and prefabrication to the fore. Although this strategy will be in complement to existing construction design, building information modeling (BIM), and project management solutions, there is an opportunity to expand this to other industries in which a more repeatable platform approach may be helpful, such as government, healthcare, and education." Jeffrey F. Hojlo, research vice president, IDC.

Eaton and Infleqtion Partner with U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to Advance Quantum Computing for Critical Infrastructure Resilience

Heather West, PhD — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Eaton and Infleqtion's announcement reflects a broader shift in enterprise quantum adoption, where the focus is moving beyond scientific research toward decision support for critical infrastructure. As organizations navigate increasingly complex operational, cybersecurity, and governance challenges, hybrid quantum-classical computing is emerging as part of a broader enterprise resilience strategy.

Edge Delivery Services Transformation Update

Ghassan Abdo — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

"The vendors expanding beyond delivery toward security and edge AI inference are better positioned to win in this demanding marketplace. Security has already proven it can replace delivery margins. The open question is how quickly edge AI inference becomes a significant revenue and margin expansion driver for these providers," says Ghassan Abdo, research VP, WW Telecom.

Exostar Appoints Jeff Ladner as Chief Product Officer, Signaling a Strategic Acceleration of Customer-Focused Innovation Across Its Security, Compliance, and Identity Platform

Philip D. Harris, CISSP, CCSK — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Exostar has appointed Jeff Ladner as chief product officer (CPO), bringing more than 20 years of SaaS product leadership experience from Onspring, Intelex, Sphera, and IHS to lead the company's product strategy, road map, and innovation initiatives across the company's cybersecurity, compliance, identity and access management, and supply chain risk solutions. The appointment is paired with the elevation of former CPO Vijay Takanti to chief strategy officer, a dual leadership move that IDC views as a deliberate structural signal: Exostar is simultaneously deepening its long-term strategic planning capacity while accelerating near-term product execution for more than 200,000 companies and agencies across the Defense Industrial Base (DIB), aerospace and defense, life sciences, and healthcare industries. IDC views this leadership investment as consistent with Exostar's positioning as the dominant platform provider for highly regulated industry communities, arriving at a moment when the company's customers face compounding cybersecurity, CMMC compliance, and supply chain risk pressures.

IDC’s Worldwide Semiannual Cloud IaaS Tracker Taxonomy, 2026

Jasdeep Singh, Taranvir Singh, Dave McCarthy, Ashish Nadkarni, Rasmus Andsbjerg — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides a detailed taxonomy of the public cloud infrastructure as a service and related SaaS — system infrastructure software markets. The scope of this document includes public cloud compute, storage, and networking services, as well as the data protection software, archiving software, and other computing and storage software markets.

“This taxonomy represents the classification of public cloud IaaS and related software markets,” said Jasdeep Singh, research manager, Cloud and Infrastructure Services at IDC. “It is designed to establish the market definitions and boundaries that serve as the foundation for IDC’s market sizing and forecasting activities.”

What We Saw: Trends and Developments in Large Format and Production Print —1Q26

Tim Greene — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation highlights some major developments and new products in the production and large-format digital printing markets in the first quarter of 2026. A lot happened in the first quarter that will impact the rest of 2026 and beyond. The presentation also includes shipment data and strategic news from the quarter.