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Capgemini: A Key Consortium Partner in Protecting the EU’s Critical Digital Infrastructure

David Clemente, Craig Robinson — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

AI Infrastructure Software: Three Graphics Processing Unit Management Scenarios and the One Winning Today

Shahin Hashim — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Graphics processing unit (GPU) resource management is now a central challenge for AI infrastructure software, with IDC projecting that vertically integrated stacks in which GPU vendors control both hardware and software will dominate through 2026. Although Kubernetes and open source alternatives are maturing, they remain dependent on vendor components. Enterprises should plan for vendor-coupled solutions in the near term, explicitly evaluate resource management capabilities, negotiate for future flexibility, and monitor signals for potential market shifts toward open alternatives.

"Open standards may eventually create real choice in GPU management software, but 'eventually' doesn't help enterprises make infrastructure decisions today. The near-term reality is vendor-driven, and planning should reflect that," said Shahin Hashim, associate research director, Infrastructure Software Platforms, IDC.

Azure-Native Routing Appliance: A Step Forward, But Not the End of Network Virtual Appliances

Taranvir Singh — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Microsoft Azure's announcement of a virtual network routing appliance to streamline east-west traffic natively addresses key routing use cases for Azure customers. However, in IDC's view, it is not equivalent to network virtual appliances that Azure customers use for advanced routing and firewalling capabilities. Further functional enhancements, such as integrations with Azure virtual WAN and support for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)–based route exchange, are needed for wider adoption.

Claude Code Security: Why Cloud Security Platforms Are the Linchpin for CISO-Grade AI AppSec

Philip Bues, Frank Dickson — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Launched in limited preview on February 20, 2026, Anthropic's Claude Code Security introduces reasoning-based AI to application security, blending code analysis, vulnerability validation, and developer-guided remediation. The market reaction has been cautiously optimistic: Early enterprise security teams cite strong detection and contextual remediation but emphasize the need for deeper integration and transparency.

IDC Survey: 2025 Enterprise Communications Services Survey — Enterprise Networking Trends

Courtney Munroe — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

The IDC Survey provides key trends on the current usage of enterprise wide area networking in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom as well as related priorities and challenges. AI-driven analytics, network performance, and security remain key enterprise priorities. Security risks, hybrid multicloud architectures, and skills gaps are pushing enterprises to rely more heavily on managed services.

IDC Survey: AI and Sustainability: A Service's Perspective — Infrastructure and Consulting Lead the Charge

Dan Versace — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey analyzes how large organizations approach AI and sustainability, focusing on vendor reliance, capability priorities, and external support needs. Findings show that sustainable AI transformation is increasingly cloud-anchored and execution led. Environmentally sustainable AI is primarily infrastructure-driven, while responsible/ethical/trusted AI is viewed as a governance and compliance challenge requiring consulting and integration expertise.

The vendors can identify where revenue pools are emerging and where gaps in external support exist, directly align messaging and portfolio investments with these priorities, and reposition from technology providers to risk and compliance partners to capture higher-value engagements.

IDC TechBrief: CMDB Discovery

Gerald Johnston — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC TechBrief discusses the importance of CMDB discovery. Organizations increasingly depend on hybrid cloud, SaaS platforms, and third-party services to deliver critical business capabilities, yet they remain fully accountable for understanding and governing the assets that support those services. Third-party services often include authentication, threat and vulnerability management, and finance functions such as procurement and general ledger. This makes accurate and continuous discovery essential for feeding configuration management databases (CMDBs) and providing a unified view of the IT environment for development, operations, and security teams. For decades, the CMDB has been treated as a mission-critical system — often prioritized for restoration during outages — because it underpins change management, incident triage, vulnerability assessment, and compliance reporting. However, maintaining CMDB accuracy has historically been difficult due to inconsistent updates, manual processes, and fragmented ownership.

Modern discovery tools address these challenges by automatically identifying assets, configurations, cloud resources, dependencies, and changes across complex environments. They reduce blind spots and prevent incorrect or outdated data from undermining operational decisions. Operating with inaccurate configuration data is akin to flying with a faulty altimeter: Decisions appear sound, but the assumptions are dangerously flawed. Real-time discovery restores trust in the CMDB and supports reliable change impact analysis, deployment validation, drift detection, and vulnerability management. As cloud adoption accelerates and third-party reliance expands, discovery also becomes critical for meeting regulatory expectations that require complete and accurate asset inventories.

Contemporary discovery platforms extend beyond traditional scan-based approaches, incorporating cloud-native APIs, event-driven telemetry, and AI-assisted normalization to improve accuracy and reduce manual verification. Many organizations begin with discovery tools integrated into their CMDB platform, such as ServiceNow Discovery, while supplementing them with specialized solutions that provide deeper visibility into unmanaged, cloud-native, or third-party assets. This layered approach ensures the CMDB remains a trustworthy system of record across an increasingly decentralized architecture.

As enterprises distribute workloads across internal and external environments, discovery will shift from a supporting toolset to a foundational capability for operational resilience. Organizations that invest in modern discovery, strong governance, and cross-team alignment will gain the accurate configuration data required to manage change, respond to incidents, reduce risk, and meet rising compliance expectations. "A resilient organization begins with knowing exactly what exists in its environment. Modern discovery turns the CMDB into a living source of truth — without it, operations, security, and compliance are flying blind," says Gerald Johnston, adjunct research advisor with IDC's IT Executive Programs (IEP).

The First Wave of Industrialized Post-Quantum Cryptography Is Here

Cathy Huang — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Orange Business (OB) and Orange Cyberdefense (OCD) have taken a significant step in operationalizing post‑quantum cryptography (PQC) by deploying NIST-aligned PQC on Cisco 8000 Series Secure Routers and packaging these capabilities into the Orange Quantum Defender portfolio that spans both telco network modernization and security services delivered through Orange Cyberdefense. Orange is becoming one of the first global telco providers to embed NIST‑aligned PQC capabilities directly into carrier‑grade infrastructure, and the Orange–Cisco approach reflects how PQC will become table stakes before 2030.

PTC Evolves AI and Agentic Strategy for ALM/PLM with Framework for Innovation and New ALM Releases

Melinda-Carol Ballou — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

PTC recently published a blog that lays out a three-step framework and trajectory for AI product life-cycle management (PLM)/application life-cycle management (ALM) adoption, providing context for an Intelligent Product Lifecycle (IPL) and to support new and future releases of its application life-cycle management portfolio. Released last month, Codebeamer AI 1.0, Codebeamer 3.2, and Pure Variants 7.2 introduce AI-driven capabilities for requirements management, test management, test generation, test coverage analysis, and product line engineering (PLE). These updates reflect the accelerating integration of AI into ALM and product development, with a focus on standards-aligned automation to help address complexity and regulatory demands. The announcements exemplify broader industry trends toward interweaving AI into ALM and PLM to enhance productivity, compliance, and life-cycle orchestration, along with effective governance and orchestration. These announcements signal PTC's intent to position the company's ALM portfolio and overall suite as a foundational system of record for product development across regulated, software-driven industries.

Retail Operations Strategies: Insight from NRF 2026

Filippo Battaini — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note summarizes the key themes that emerged from NRF Retail's Big Show 2026, including POS evolution, AI-powered store associate tools, and computer vision deployment; it provides an overview of solutions that leverage unified commerce platforms, edge computing, and real-time data, as showcased by technology providers at the event; and it reflects on key takeaways from the event, including the transformation of POS into commerce hubs, the empowerment of frontline workers, and the transition of computer vision from pilots to scaled deployments.

"POS is no longer 'point of sale' — it's now 'point of service' where all commerce capabilities converge. At NRF 2026, retailers and vendors demonstrated they understand this shift. The most successful implementations will start with data architecture, empower store associates with real-time information, and prepare for AI-driven commerce. Retailers still treating POS as isolated checkout infrastructure will fall behind," says Filippo Battaini, research manager, IDC Retail Insights.