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IDC Survey: Enterprise Infrastructure Pulse Survey, 4Q25: Storage Systems and Hyperconverged Infrastructure — Executive Summary

Ranjit Rajan, Carol Sliwa, Natalya Yezhkova — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation provides a summary of the findings from IDC's 4Q25 Enterprise Infrastructure Pulse Survey of IT decision-makers with knowledge of and purchasing responsibility for their organization's storage systems and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). Taking the pulse of the enterprise IT market, the 4Q25 storage survey offers in-depth insight into current and future infrastructure requirements and investments. Areas of focus include spending plans, usage of flash storage, adoption of new storage technologies and architectures, hybrid cloud storage trends, HCI deployments, and AI workload storage requirements; this presentation focuses on findings related to all but the last area, which will be covered in a separate executive summary presentation.

The Enterprise Infrastructure Pulse is a quarterly survey focused on exploring trends in various IT infrastructure domains, including servers, storage and hyperconverged infrastructure, networking, data protection, and data logistics.

IDC Survey: IDC's 2026 U.S. Workstation Workloads Survey — Buyer Perspective

Linn Huang — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey presents results from IDC's 2026 U.S. Workstation Workloads Survey, focusing on workstation usage, adoption dynamics, and buyer behavior across organizations. The findings confirm that workstations have transitioned into a mainstream IT fleet category, with most deploying organizations maintaining significant workstation penetration and planning further growth. Workstation purchasing is largely IT led and embedded within broader refresh strategies, reinforcing their role as a core component of enterprise IT infrastructure.

AI development has emerged as the primary driver of new workstation demand, overtaking traditional workloads, while hybrid compute trends continue as organizations repatriate meaningful portions of workloads from the cloud back to local devices. Buyer priorities remain centered on performance, configurability, and end-user productivity rather than cost savings alone. Despite high awareness and prior experience with workstations, non-adoption is primarily driven by perceived lack of value and unclear use cases, indicating that future growth depends on stronger value articulation rather than pricing. Overall, the market is evolving toward a broader, value-driven role for workstations in enabling productivity, supporting AI workloads, and integrating into mainstream enterprise IT strategies.

IDC Survey: Run, Refresh, Replace: How Power Generation Companies Are Prioritizing IT Solution Investments — Insights from IDC's 2026 Energy and Utilities Industry-Specific Tech and Innovation Survey

Gaia Gallotti — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey examines a portion of IDC's 2026 Energy and Utilities Industry-Specific Tech and Innovation Survey. This landmark study, run between February and March 2026, covers utilities worldwide.

The survey covered 800 respondents, of which 531 are utilities respondents from the following countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, KSA, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Türkiye, UAE, the U.K., and the U.S.

This presentation extrapolates and analyzes select data for 99 power generation companies worldwide. It focuses on IT solution investment intentions across ten core software categories relevant to power generation companies.

The analysis covers the following areas:

Investment intentions across operations and dispatch solutions, including SCADA, operational data management (ODM), generation scheduling, and energy trading and risk management (ETRM)
Investment intentions across asset management and engineering solutions, including design and digital twin platforms, enterprise asset management (EAM), and asset performance management (APM)
Investment intentions across compliance and risk solutions, including environment, health, and safety (EHS); sustainability management; and OT security
The balance between first-time investment, upgrades, and replacement activity across each solution category

IDC Survey: Worldwide Business Consulting Services Global Client Value Survey, 2026

Bill Latshaw — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey discusses the worldwide business consulting services global client value survey. IDC's Worldwide Business Consulting Services program surveyed consulting buyers in March 2026. The survey aims to get an updated view on business consulting buyers' priorities, industry and regional trends, and consulting characteristics best associated with successful business consulting engagements and executive-level opinions of business consulting providers worldwide. It has been published for more than 10 years now and still is a favorite based on the insights it provides on business consulting services buyer behavior.

New Canon Desktop Label Printers to Enable In-House Label Production

Tim Greene, Mitri Roufka — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note highlights the changing needs of companies for producing labels and the capabilities of new Canon desktop label printing systems.

What Are the Most Important Features of Standalone Document Scanners? And What Benefits Do European Companies Expect to Achieve with AI-Enhanced Scanning?

Mitri Roufka — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the most important features that European organizations consider when selecting standalone document scanners and explores the key benefits they expect from AI-enhanced scanning capabilities. It analyzes feature priorities such as resolution, speed, duplex scanning, and security-related capabilities while assessing the growing role of integrated AI applications in document workflows.

The study further highlights that standalone scanners are held to higher performance and functionality standards than multifunction peripherals, with AI increasingly viewed as a baseline requirement. It also evaluates how organizations prioritize AI-driven outcomes, emphasizing both security and quality improvements over pure productivity gains, providing insights for vendors aiming to strengthen their value propositions in this segment.

IDC Survey: Ink Tank Versus Ink Cartridge Systems

Phil Sargeant — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey presentation features results from IDC’s European Imaging, Printing, and Document Solutions (IPDS) Survey, conducted in March 2026 among 2,057 respondents in Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, the Nordics, Poland, Spain, and the United Kingdom. This document focuses on the adoption of ink-cartridge and ink-tank systems in European business-to-business (B2B) print environments, including the role of ink devices alongside lasers, the use of cartridge-only, tank-only, and mixed ink fleets, and the reasons organizations choose or reject ink-tank devices.

The survey covered the current state and future direction of B2B printing and copying across European markets, including print technology usage, ink and laser fleet configurations, ink cartridge and ink-tank adoption, differences in adoption by company size and country, drivers for choosing ink-tank devices, and barriers to considering ink-tank systems.

中国路由器市场概况，2025

Albert Wang — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本IDC研究报告以2025年第一季度至第四季度的数据为基础，主要介绍了全球及中国路由器市场规模和未来五年市场规模预测、中国路由器市场竞争分析和行业分析，同时从市场规模、未来五年市场规模预测等角度对运营商和企业网路由器展开分析。报告显示，2025年中国路由器市场营收达到202.8亿人民币，同比下滑0.5%。从细分部署市场分析，2025年中国运营商路由器市场投资增长0.5%，骨干网迭代接近尾声，5G配套投资退潮；企业网路由器市场投资下滑3.8%，分销销售模式低迷，行业投资分化明显。

AMD Expands Enterprise AI Infrastructure Flexibility with Instinct MI350P PCIe GPUs

Andrew Buss, Mohamed Hefny — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note examines the announcement of AMD's Instinct MI350P PCIe GPU. AMD has introduced the Instinct MI350P PCIe GPU to address the enterprise demand for scalable AI acceleration within existing datacenter infrastructure. By combining a high-end performance profile with a standard PCIe form factor, the solution enables incremental AI adoption without significant infrastructure redesign. IDC views the MI350P as an important step in expanding enterprise AI deployment models, particularly through its support for upgradeability and flexible scaling. Further ecosystem expansion, particularly toward start-ups and emerging developers, would enhance its strategic impact.

IDC PlanScape: AI-Enabled Carbon Management

Bjoern Stengel — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC PlanScape helps technology decision-makers understand the market for AI-enabled carbon management, identify use cases where AI delivers the most value today, evaluate vendors against IDC's research, and chart a pragmatic adoption path based on their organization's current maturity. The business case is increasingly tangible: Leading adopters report material reductions in external consulting spend on reporting and assurance, redeployment of sustainability analyst time from data wrangling to decarbonization strategy, faster close cycles for disclosure, and improved auditability of AI-derived numbers — outcomes that compound as Scope 3 and product carbon footprint (PCF) requirements expand.

"AI is changing the economics of carbon management. Tasks that once required armies of consultants — finding the right emission factors, reconciling supplier data, drafting disclosures, and modeling decarbonization pathways — are increasingly being automated. Buyers should view AI-enabled carbon management not as an incremental upgrade to their reporting stack but as the foundation for moving from disclosure to delivery on their climate commitments and realization of more advanced forms of sustainable business value," said Bjoern Stengel, lead, Global Sustainability Research and Practice at IDC.