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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.

Tackling Operational Shrink, Loss, and Fraud

Filippo Battaini, Margot Juros — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective explores how artificial intelligence (AI), computer vision, RFID, and edge computing are reshaping loss prevention from friction-based deterrence to intelligence-driven intervention, and offers retailers a structured approach to technology selection, deployment, and ROI justification. Retail shrink is no longer a manageable cost of doing business — it is a strategic crisis demanding a new technological response.

"Loss prevention is at an inflection point. Retailers can no longer afford to choose between security and customer experience — the most effective next-generation platforms deliver both simultaneously. The vendors gaining ground are those that fuse computer vision, RFID, and point-of-sale (POS) data into unified, real-time intervention systems, rather than deploying point solutions that address only one zone or one theft vector," says Filippo Battaini, research manager, IDC Retail Insights.

AI Pricing Complexity Demands a New Monetization Stack: Zuora's AI Monetization Suite Announcement

Heather Hershey — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

On June 4, 2026, Zuora announced an expansion of its AI Monetization Suite. Zuora's expanded AI Monetization Suite is a meaningful step toward closing the gap between how AI products are priced and how the underlying commercial infrastructure operationalizes that pricing. For CROs and CFOs, the announcement signals that the quote-to-cash category is beginning to catch up to the realities of AI monetization.

Build 2026 Marks Microsoft's Most Substantive Push to Orient Windows Around Agentic Development

Adam Resnick — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Microsoft Build 2026 focused heavily on agentic enablement, with announcements across the Microsoft stack targeting the development, deployment, and governance of AI agents at enterprise scale. Within this context, Windows and related hardware updates signal a coordinated push to reinforce Windows as a primary platform for agentic development. These investments emphasize OS-level agent containment, on-device AI execution, expanded Linux tooling, and purpose-built, low-friction OS experiences for developers. Microsoft's installed base and deep enterprise reach already position Windows ahead of macOS and Linux across much of the developer market. Improvements in usability and developer-centric design strengthen its case as agentic workloads scale, but shifting developer preference among Mac-centric, start-up, and AI-native segments will take time and will not be driven by capability alone.

Cisco Isovalent Launches Networking for Virtualization Platform to Capture the Virtual Machine Migration Market

Paul Nicholson — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Cisco has announced the general availability (GA) of Isovalent Networking for Virtualization (INV), providing enterprise IT teams with a supported path to migrate virtual machine (VM) workloads from existing platforms to OpenShift Virtualization and Kubernetes KubeVirt without disrupting network connectivity or security policies. For IT leaders managing infrastructure modernization, this is a meaningful addition to the Cisco portfolio: It addresses one of the most common blockers in VM-to-Kubernetes migration projects, backed by networking technology already trusted by the world's largest cloud providers. Launched at Cisco Live (June 2026), INV becomes the fourth pillar of the Isovalent Enterprise Platform and demonstrates that Cisco's networking capabilities now extend well beyond traditional hardware.

HPE 2Q26 Results: Two Years Ahead of Plan

Matthew Eastwood — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

On June 1, 2026, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced record 2Q26 results. Revenue rose 40% year over year to $10.7 billion. Non-GAAP diluted EPS was $0.79, and free cash flow was about $0.9 billion. Each metric surpassed guidance. Profitability and cash generation exceeded expectations by a wide margin. Orders more than doubled, producing a record backlog and improving visibility into the second half of FY26. Based on these results, HPE raised its full-year outlook for revenue, EPS, and free cash flow and introduced an initial FY27 financial framework, signaling management's confidence in demand for networking, AI infrastructure, storage, and hybrid cloud.

Japan Telecommunications Services Forecast, 2026–2030

Yoko Ono — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides market forecasts for the Japan telecommunications services market from 2026 to 2030.

"Telecommunications carriers considering next-generation networks must envision service models premised on a future five years ahead, when AI agents have become widespread. The expansion of autonomous business execution by AI agents will make them entities directly linked to corporate competitiveness. Wide area networks will serve as the foundation supporting multimodal collaboration among distributed AI, and cloud-like agility, high communication quality, and robust security will be demanded even more strongly," says Yoko Ono, research manager, Network & Security, IDC Japan.

This is the English translation of the Japanese document (IDC #JPJ53503026).