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Japan J-LEO D2C Govt Project Opts for Rakuten/AST SpaceMobile over KDDI/SpaceX

Simon Baker — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

T Project subsidizes disaster recovery LEO satellite infrastructure open to all telecoms players in Japan under mandate of local ownership and control. It requires national service with video calling capabilities and service by early 2029. The decision is an important boost to AST SpaceMobile and its positioning as a 'cellular tower in the sky' operator able and willing to work as a neutral infrastructure player.

NSA and Army Launch QuantumEAGLe to Deepen Federal Engagement with the U.S. Quantum Computing Industry

Heather West, PhD — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

NSA and the U.S. Army's launch of the QuantumEAGLe initiative marks a shift in how the U.S. government engages the quantum computing industry, moving from funding research at a distance to working directly with vendors through flexible contracting authority. It lands amid a broader acceleration in federal quantum activity in 2026 that IDC believes is reshaping expectations for how quickly government demand translates into commercial market growth.

Omnea Advances Spend Orchestration with MCP Integration and Tropic Price Intelligence Partnership

Patrick Reymann — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Rocket Lab Acquisition of Iridium: Legacy LEO taken off the Table, will not radically change Satellite Landscape

Simon Baker — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Rocket Lab's purchase of Iridium follows on from Amazon's acquisition of Globalstar, and marks the takeover of the second of the original LEO satellite systems from the 1990s. While in outline this takeover creates an integrated company capable of launch, satellite manufacture and operation, the combined entity will take years to realize these synergies and cannot in the short term be considered a close competitor of SpaceX Starlink or Amazon LEO.

Broadcom Charts Platform Engineering 2.0: Extending the IDP for the AI-Native Enterprise

Jim Mercer, Matthew Flug — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) business recently introduced Platform Engineering 2.0, a five-pillar framework that extends the discipline's foundation, platform as a product, golden paths, and self-service internal developer platforms (IDPs) into the AI era. The framework adds AI-native infrastructure, a multi-persona experience model, embedded FinOps, security that shifts down into the platform substrate, and a composable, API-first architecture to the existing foundation of platform engineering principles.

F5 Launches AI Security Platform and Operationalizes Model Evaluation for the Enterprise

Grace Trinidad, Christopher Rodriguez, Frank Dickson — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

On June 22, 2026, F5 launched its AI Security Platform, extending its Application Delivery and Security Platform strategy from web applications and APIs into enterprise AI applications, models, agents, and APIs. Anchored by the acquisition of SurePath AI, whose network-based technology supplies AI discovery, the platform runs as a continuous loop across four pillars — AI Discovery, AI Security Testing, AI Governance, and AI Runtime Protection, with an observability layer over them. It stress tests systems against more than 140,000 attack patterns before production, enforces plain-language guardrails at runtime, and deploys across on-premises, air-gapped, private cloud, hybrid, and public cloud environments, with a reach aimed at regulated buyers. F5's 2026 SOAS Report states that 88% of organizations face an AI-related security challenge and 98% are preparing for agentic AI. IDC's read: F5's real contribution is not another control but a yardstick. Provenance records what a model is; CASI and ARS measure what it does under attack, comparably and every month, turning model trustworthiness from a vendor claim into a number an enterprise can rank, price, and reverify.

Palantir and NVIDIA Announce Sovereign AI Partnership for Defense and National Security Agencies

Alan Webber — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Palantir Technologies and NVIDIA announced a joint engine on June 29, 2026, that runs NVIDIA's open-weight Nemotron models inside Palantir's Sovereign AI Operating System, built for U.S. government agencies and critical infrastructure operators that require classified or air-gapped deployment. The announcement extends a reference architecture the two companies published in March 2026 and gives defense and national security technology leaders a packaged answer to two questions that have slowed AI adoption in classified settings: where the data goes, and who owns the model.

DTW 2026 — Reality Check for Autonomous Networks, Agentic AI, and the Future of Telco Monetization

Chris Silberberg — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

DTW Ignite 2026 drew 3,000+ attendees to Copenhagen, with agentic AI, autonomous networks, AI monetization, and customer experience emerging as the event's defining cross-vendor themes. Though in some areas progress has not been as fast as expected, discussions were experience led, with progress being made in all areas.

Status of Retail: Key Findings from the Global Retail Survey 2026 – IDC Retail Insights

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation presents the main results from IDC’s 2026 Retail Technologies and Business Process Trends Survey. The report examines the strategic priorities, technology investments, and operational challenges facing retailers worldwide, spanning six key domains: AI strategy, omni-channel commerce, customer experience and loyalty, store and workforce operations, supply chain management, and IT architecture and cybersecurity. The research draws on survey data from a global sample of retail decision-makers across subcategories including health and beauty, grocery, and specialty retail. It is complemented by case studies from leading retailers such as Sephora, Starbucks, Fanatics, and Walmart.

This study explores how retailers are allocating budgets across areas such as agentic AI, edge computing, RFID, merchandising technology, and loyalty platforms, providing a quantified view of where spending is increasing and which initiatives are currently being implemented or budgeted. Across all domains, the research benchmarks adoption rates, identifies the most urgent challenges practitioners face, and highlights the technology levers that retailers expect to drive revenue growth and operational resilience through 2026 and beyond.

IDC's Worldwide Enterprise Workload Infrastructure Taxonomy, 2026

Max Pepper, Natalya Yezhkova — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Taxonomy provides an overview of and definitions for IDC's Enterprise Workloads Infrastructure Stacks and Deployments syndicated research. It is also a base for IDC's Semiannual Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker: Workloads. Driven by extensive primary research and analysis, these products provide insights into trends in workload migration, workload virtualization, demand for certain compute and storage technologies for various workloads, and forecast spending on compute and storage systems supporting these workloads.

"IDC's enterprise workloads infrastructure research evaluates how server systems, external storage systems, and HCI appliances support workload applications and looks at the impact of various deployment models, locations, infrastructure tiers, virtualization architectures, and other influential factors on workload implementation at the infrastructure level. This helps provide actionable insights into buyer behavior to enable enterprises to best understand infrastructure modernization trends and strategies, especially as we see rapid evolution in trends in the face of artificial intelligence enablement," said Max Pepper, senior research analyst, Enterprise Workloads and Core Infrastructure at IDC.