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HP Inc. Announces Leadership Transition as Enrique Lores Steps Down

Linn Huang, Keith Kmetz — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

On February 3^rd, HP Inc. notified IDC of a leadership change at the company. Bruce Broussard has been appointed Interim Chief Executive Officer as Enrique Lores has left the company to pursue another professional opportunity.

NaaS and the New WAN: Are the Enterprises in the Middle East, Turkiye, and Africa Ready for the Shift?

Tolga Yalcin — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight provides insights into enterprise readiness for NaaS and the new WAN across the Middle East, Türkiye, and Africa (META), highlighting the shift from limited experimentation toward more structured adoption of on-demand networking capabilities.

The data for this presentation comes from IDC's 2025 Enterprise Communications and Collaboration Survey conducted across the EMEA region.

Claude Cowork Legal Plugin: Assessing the Impact to CLM

Patrick Reymann, Ryan O’Leary — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Anthropic’s Claude Cowork Legal Plugin introduces lowcost, AIdriven contract triage, redlining, and playbook execution for inhouse legal teams, reframing expectations for “AI for contracts” without replacing endtoend CLM. While its utilitystyle pricing and review capabilities challenge CLM vendors that rely on generic AI review as a differentiator, it does not address the broader lifecycle needs that CLM platforms serve. The plugin is best understood as a specialized legal utility and potential onramp that may push more organizations toward full CLM adoption and integration. CLM providers will need to respond by evolving their pricing and positioning toward outcomebased value across the full contract lifecycle.

European Cloud Experience Drives Decisive Adoption for Accelerated Growth

Carla Arend, Jacqui Hendriks — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note leverages insights from IDC's expert European cloud analysts to dispel the myth of a widespread return to on-premises services, known as cloud repatriation. Significant media attention has been paid to global brands hit by both major cybersecurity breaches and datacenter service disruptions. These are just some of the events that prompt businesses to review how they use cloud services. Service providers need to understand what drives customers' choice of cloud environment.

Market Analysis Perspective: North America Production Digital Print, 2025

Tim Greene — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides insight into the current and future state of the North America production digital print market. It includes an overview of the current market landscape, a technology buyer perspective, a market outlook, and IDC's advice for technology suppliers in this market.

The AI Basic Act: Enterprise Implications and Opportunities for the Korean and Asia/Pacific Technology Ecosystem

Sakshi Grover, Yih Khai Wong, Min Kim — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

The AI Basic Act introduces mandatory obligations for Korean enterprises, including human oversight, risk management, user notification and accountability for high-impact AI implementations in industries such as healthcare, transportation and public sector services.

For Asia/Pacific enterprises, the AI Basic Act is enforceable even without a physical Korean presence, as long as AI services are delivered Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), platforms or models that are accessible in Korea.

The introduction of the AI Basic Act underscore Korea's dual strategy of regulating and promoting AI services to strengthen industry competitiveness, especially in the Asia/Pacific region. While there might be compliance costs, the Act provides strong governmental support through AI infrastructure, data access, talent programs and procurement incentives.

AWS re:Invent 2025 — Infrastructure Announcements and Market Implications

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Perspective discusses AWS infrastructure announcements and market implications at re:Invent 2025. AWS re:Invent 2025 marked a strategic pivot toward AI-first, vertically integrated infrastructure, unveiling custom silicon, advanced compute and storage, and managed AI Factories for sovereign, high-performance workloads. These innovations reflect AWS' intent to deliver consistent, scalable, and regulatory-compliant AI infrastructure across cloud, edge, and on-premises environments, positioning AWS as a foundational partner for enterprises navigating the demands of data gravity, sovereignty, and next-generation AI applications.

"AWS is not just building the future of cloud — it's engineering the infrastructure backbone for the AI-first era, where data gravity and sovereignty reshape every boundary." — Jasdeep Singh, research manager, Cloud and Infrastructure Services at IDC

Brother Bids for Mutoh

Tim Greene — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This week Brother announced that it has made a bid to acquire Mutoh as part of its strategy to grow its industrial printing business. This IDC Link comments on the potential for the acquisition.

CoreWeave ARENA and the Shift Toward Production-Ready AI Labs

Dave McCarthy — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

As the AI industry transitions from the era of experimental "sandbox" research to large-scale commercial deployment, a critical friction point has emerged: the discrepancy between synthetic benchmarks and real-world production performance. CoreWeave's announcement of CoreWeave ARENA (AI-Ready Native Applications) represents a strategic shift in the cloud infrastructure market.

ARENA is a production-ready AI lab designed to provide "evidence before production." By mirroring live settings, including complex orchestration, high-throughput storage, and InfiniBand networking, ARENA allows enterprises to validate workload performance and cost certainty before committing to massive infrastructure investments.

IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Services 2026 Predictions — Canada Implications

Sreenivas Duvvuri Venkata, Jason Bremner — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC FutureScape provides IDC's top 10 predictions for worldwide services and implications for Canada for 2026–2031. This year's predictions for Canada are influenced strongly by the impact of agentic AI, with a focus on scaling AI use across the organization.

IDC's December 2025 Canada IT Decision Makers Survey indicates that 78% Canadian organizations are increasing IT spending on external services in 2026. Among primary reasons for that increase are investments made into innovative technologies and prioritization of technology as an enabler of growth. AI services are expected to receive a lion's share of the increment, in addition to security services. As organizations plan for greater use of agentic AI, across initiatives including application modernization and business functions like product R&D or customer service, controlling challenges such as agent sprawl is critical to the sustainability of investments. IDC expects partners such as cloud providers and systems integration and IT consulting vendors to play a critical role in helping Canadian organizations navigate this journey.

"Emerging frontier models and agentic solutions are making services-as-a-product models a lucrative reality. Its impact extends far beyond technology, affecting ways of working and business culture at its core," says Sreenivas Duvvuri Venkata, research analyst, Enterprise Services at IDC. "Grappling with change across the board, Canadian leaders will require to take a closer look at their internal operations, technology stack, and outsourcing footprint to remain relevant in the current business landscape."