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IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Digital Forensics Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment

Alison Brooks, Ph.D. — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study evaluates seven digital forensics platform vendors — Cellebrite, Magnet Forensics, MSAB, OpenText (EnCase), Belkasoft, Exterro (FTK), and ADF Solutions — on the capabilities and strategies that determine how well their solutions address the demands of modern investigations. The assessment evaluates each vendor across the investigative workflow, from acquiring data off increasingly locked-down devices, through to maintaining an unbroken chain of custody, to synthesizing large data volumes and producing findings that hold up in court.

Priorities have shifted considerably since IDC last evaluated this market. Getting data off a device remains hard and is getting harder, but the volume of acquired data now overwhelms the capacity to make sense of it, and AI-assisted analysis has moved from novelty to working tool. That shift raises an important question: whether an AI-surfaced finding can be explained and defended under cross-examination. AI governance maturity varies more across these vendors than almost any other capability assessed.

This IDC MarketScape is intended for forensics unit commanders, digital investigations leads, and law enforcement technology officers evaluating platform investments. It is designed to help buyers match a vendor's demonstrated strengths to the stage of the workflow where their own caseload is most constrained.

"For a forensics unit, the solution is only as good as the evidence it can defend in court, not simply the speed at which it processes a device," said Dr. Alison Brooks, IDC Research VP, Worldwide Public Safety. "The vendors pulling ahead are the ones treating defensibility and AI governance as part of the product, rather than a compliance afterthought. As caseloads grow and AI enters the workflow, agencies are having to re-evaluate their priorities."

AWS and NVIDIA Deepen Strategic AI Infrastructure Alliance

Dave McCarthy, Jasdeep Singh — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

AWS and NVIDIA have announced a massive expansion of their strategic alliance, signaling an aggressive push to capture the next wave of AI workloads, specifically agentic and physical AI. Driven by unprecedented customer demand, AWS will deploy two million additional NVIDIA GPUs across its global infrastructure between 2027 and 2028.

Beyond raw compute expansion, the collaboration deepens full-stack ecosystem integration. Key announcements include introducing NVIDIA Vera CPUs to AWS, Amazon’s Annapurna Labs working with NVIDIA’s new custom high-bandwidth memory (NVHBM), and building a dedicated 100,000-GPU AI factory for the U.S. government.

IDC MarketScape: Japan Sustainability Programs and Services Hardcopy 2026 Vendor Assessment

Eiji Ishida — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本調査レポートは、国内オフィスプリント市場における主要ベンダーに対して、IDC MarketScapeモデルに基づいて「戦略」および「能力」の評価を行い、その分析結果を報告するものである。また、ITバイヤーが、サステナビリティ視点でベンダーを選定する際に留意すべき事項を提示している。

「ITバイヤーには、自社サステナビリティ目標をブレイクダウンし、オフィスプリント環境に求めるサステナビリティ目標を設定することが求められる。さらに、プリント機器に求める環境性能を決めるだけでなく、サステナビリティ活動をどの程度ベンダーに委託するのか、つまりマネージドプリントサービスとしてサステナビリティに関する報告と改善活動を委託するのかといった視点での検討も重要である。こうした点を踏まえて、サステナビリティ戦略および能力を評価し、ベンダー選定を行うべきである」と、IDC Japan、Infrastructure, Imaging, and Devicesのシニアリサーチディレクターである石田英次は分析している。

IDC’s Worldwide Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker Taxonomy, 2026

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study, which presents IDC’s current taxonomy for the enterprise storage systems market, should serve as a guide for the existing base of enterprise storage research and for the planned base of IDC hardware research. IDC expects that the definitions presented in this document will provide explanations for the categories of products that are shown within the data tables of IDC’s quantitative deliverables and research documents. Tracker deliverables are usually presented in a pivot table format, and the categories are labeled as described in this taxonomy document.

“The enterprise storage systems market will be going through broad changes over the next several years. This taxonomy presents IDC’s framework for analyzing the storage market based on standardized and identifiable technical and market attributes,” said Natalya Yezhkova, research vice president, Enterprise and Emerging Workloads within Worldwide Infrastructure Research, IDC. “The taxonomy document will continually evolve to facilitate systematic and consistent analysis of the enterprise storage market by IDC’s research teams around the world.”

IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Purpose-Built Backup Appliance Tracker Taxonomy, 2026

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides a detailed description of the purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) market as part of IDC’s Storage Solutions coverage and Worldwide PBBA Tracker.

“IDC continues to see organizations investing in PBBAs in support of the backup, recovery, and protection of their data. Over time, we expect for PBBAs to remain a valuable component of organizations’ data logistics and protection strategies, with a growing emphasis around the capabilities of PBBAs in cyber-recovery scenarios,” said Greg Macatee, research manager, IDC’s Infrastructure Systems, Platforms, and Technologies Group.

IDC’s Worldwide Enterprise Infrastructure Taxonomy, 2026

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides a comprehensive overview and definitions for enterprise infrastructure hardware. The definitions provided in this document represent the scope of IDC’s enterprise infrastructure hardware research.

This taxonomy outlines market segmentations and measurement methodologies for the enterprise infrastructure market, including classification by technology, vendor, geography, and revenue metrics.

“The enterprise infrastructure market has evolved in the past years with the introduction of converged systems, cloud-based architectures, and more demanding workloads; as a result, IDC redesigned its existing enterprise hardware tracker product portfolio to better represent the current market dynamics. IDC’s enterprise infrastructure taxonomy presents IDC’s framework for analyzing the enterprise infrastructure market in a holistic way, presenting a total addressable market sizing and forecast,” said Lidice Fernandez, group vice president, Worldwide Tracker Research. “This taxonomy document will constantly evolve to facilitate a systematic and consistent analysis of the enterprise infrastructure market by IDC’s research teams around the world.”

Market Forecast: Worldwide Solid State Drive Forecast, 2026–2030

Jeff Janukowicz — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation provides the five-year forecast for the solid state drive (SSD) market and delivers insights into the drivers and inhibitors of growth.

The document examines solid state drives, analyzing demand based on IDC’s shipment forecast. Exabytes and revenue are expected to rise over the long-term forecast period, especially in the enterprise market.

“SSD demand remains robust, with AI infrastructure build-outs a key driver of capacity growth across cloud and enterprise environments. Datacenter capital spending tied to AI has outpaced our prior projections, pushing SSD demand higher than previously forecast. As a result, IDC now expects worldwide SSD revenue to grow at a CAGR of over 40% from 2025 to 2030.” — Jeff Janukowicz, research vice president, global lead, Semiconductors and Enabling Technologies, IDC

Market Share: Worldwide Server Operating System Environments Shares, 2025 — The Top 2 Vendors Widened Their Combined Share

Shahin Hashim — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation examines the 2025 market shares of the leading vendors in the server operating system environments market.

"Two vendors now account for nearly 90% of worldwide revenue from server operating system environments. Even as community and cloud provider OSE instances continue to expand, revenue in this market has moved beyond typical competitive dynamics into a structure defined by installed base and platform lock-in, where incumbency itself has become the primary competitive advantage." — Shahin Hashim, associate research director, Storage and Data Management, Enterprise Infrastructure at IDC

NVIDIA's Jetson Orin Nano 2: Real Compute Gains for Physical AI, but the Manufacturing Case Rests on the Ecosystem Around It

Sarah Lee — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

On August 25, 2026, NVIDIA announced Jetson Orin Nano 2, the newest entry-level module in its Jetson robotics computer line, positioned to bring frontier-class generative AI performance to compact edge devices such as robots, delivery and inspection drones, and vision AI systems. The module packs 78 trillion operations per second of AI compute, 8GB of memory, and an 8-core Arm CPU, delivering roughly two times the inference performance of the prior Jetson Orin Nano Super in the same compact form factor while consuming 40% less power at equivalent performance.

Xerocon US 2026: Xero Pushes Accounting into Action

Kevin Permenter — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

On August 19 and 20, Xero hosted Xerocon US 2026 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado. The two-day event brought together over 1,200 accounting and bookkeeping professionals, Xero leaders, and technology partners to discuss Xero's product direction and the changing role of AI in small business finance. Xerocon US 2026 showed a Xero that is becoming more ambitious about its role in the financial lives of small businesses, bringing accounting, payments, payroll, financial intelligence, and AI-driven workflows closer together while expanding JAX from an AI assistant that answers questions into an agentic layer that can increasingly identify issues, recommend next steps, and help execute financial work.

The bigger story is not any single AI feature, but Xero's attempt to turn the accounting platform from a system that primarily records what happened into one that helps businesses understand what is happening and decide what to do next, a shift supported by embedded payroll and payments, analytics and industry benchmarking, and integrations that make Xero's financial context available through environments such as Microsoft 365, Claude, and ChatGPT.