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From Promise to Impact: Scaling Enterprise AI for Measurable Business Outcomes in the Middle East, Türkiye, and Africa

Melih Murat — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

IDC Directions Middle East, Türkiye, and Africa 2026 took place February 10 in Dubai. Technology suppliers were convened to discuss the key technology trends and predictions that will shape 2026 and beyond.

The event provided perspective on how organizations in the Middle East, Türkiye, and Africa (META) can move beyond experimentation toward enterprise-wide value creation. AI is widely recognized as strategic, but many organizations struggle with unrealistic expectations, siloed operations, fragmented tools, and limited skills. Critically, 60% of META organizations are not measuring the success of their AI initiatives, limiting their ability to scale effectively.

The session positioned agentic AI as the next phase of transformation, enabled by process automation, AI assistants, copilots, advisors, and intelligent agents. It emphasized that achieving meaningful ROI requires a platform-led approach to managing agent life cycle, governance, and interoperability at scale. The presentation concluded with practical guidance on prioritizing high-impact use cases and aligning AI investments with measurable business outcomes.

IDC's 2026 NVIDIA GTC Roundup

Linn Huang — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

From March 16^th to 19^thSan Jose, California played host to NVIDIA's GTC showcase. The event brought together developers, engineers, and other IT professionals to explore the latest and greatest in AI and accelerated compute.

NVIDIA Drives the Convergence of AI and Quantum Computing at GTC 2026

Heather West, PhD — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note summarizes the quantum computing announcements made by NVIDIA at GTC 2026 and highlights its strategy in positioning quantum as a coprocessor within AI-driven supercomputing. NVIDIA's focus on architecture, software, and AI integration is driving ecosystem alignment and advancing the development of hybrid quantum–classical systems.

F5 GTC 2026 and AppWorld 2026 Announcements — F5 Delivers Solutions for Improved "Tokenomics," AI Infrastructure, and Application Delivery

Paul Nicholson — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

F5's recent announcements at NVIDIA GTC 2026 and F5 AppWorld 2026 advance the company's capabilities across networking for AI and AI for networking, delivering both platform and advanced modular features. The integration of BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes with NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs enables enterprises and cloud providers to optimize token economics, maximize GPU utilization, and scale AI workloads efficiently — enhancing token throughput and time to first token. F5's new AI-driven and oriented solutions, including F5 Insight for ADSP and certified Red Hat OpenShift Operators, empower organizations with deep observability, actionable intelligence, and streamlined security controls. This approach can reduce AI infrastructure costs, accelerate productivity, and support rapid innovation, positioning F5 to offer secure, scalable, and responsive AI-powered digital experiences across distributed environments.

From Modality Shift to Security Urgency: Google Signals a New Phase in Quantum Computing

Heather West, PhD, Phil Goodwin — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Google's simultaneous expansion into neutral atom quantum computing and its call for post-quantum cryptography (PQC) migration by 2029 suggest that the company is no longer planning for distant quantum disruption, but actively preparing for compressed timelines and faster paths to scale. This dual signal points to a potential inflection point where breakthroughs in hardware and error correction could accelerate the arrival of quantum-driven cybersecurity risks, forcing both vendors and enterprises to act sooner than anticipated. Organizations that fail to heed this accelerated timeline for post-quantum readiness place themselves at significant additional risk from quantum-enhanced cyberattack.

The Future of Fax, 2026: Survey Results from the United States, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom

Keith Kmetz — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study examines the future of fax with survey results segmented by region, country, company size, and vertical market. The study specifically examines the following:

The overall fax usage of both current users and those who are considering the adoption of fax
The drivers for the adoption of digital fax
The business value and ROI of fax modernization
Detailed examination of the core fax vertical market opportunities (i.e., financial services, healthcare, and government)
Recommendations based on the survey results

IDC Survey Spotlight: Are Communications Service Providers Capitalizing on Their High-Performance Network for the Surge in Edge AI Adoption?

Ajeet Das — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight presents the evolving use cases for edge AI and organizations' top criteria for supporting AI workloads at the edge. It contains data from IDC's January 2026 Worldwide AI in Networking Special Report based on responses from 330 enterprises worldwide.

"As edge AI maturity advances, the selection criteria for enterprise solutions are shifting away from basic hardware toward high-performance connectivity and data offloading. The market is recognizing that 'intelligence at the edge' is only as effective as the network supporting it. In 2026, the winners in the space — particularly in etlecom and retail — are those prioritizing low-latency wired and wireless integration to handle the specialized AI workloads that on-device compute cannot manage alone." — Ajeet Das, research director, Telecom Infrastructure at IDC

IDC Survey Spotlight: How Does AI Maturity Impact the Adoption of Edge AI?

Brandon Butler — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights research from IDC's November 2025 AI in Networking Survey, which is a global survey of network practitioners exploring two major angles of AI in networking: networking for AI, or how network infrastructure must evolve to support AI workloads; and AI for networking, or how AI-powered capabilities are transforming the engineering and operations of the network. This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the rapid expansion of edge AI, especially as organizations advance in their overall AI maturity.

"Edge AI adoption is closely tied to broader AI maturity, and as organizations scale AI initiatives, network infrastructure will become a critical enabler. Enterprises will need network architectures that can support unpredictable, latency-sensitive AI workloads and increasingly distributed inference environments with security built in," says Brandon Butler, senior research manager, Enterprise Networks at IDC.

IDC Survey Spotlight: What Comes After Adoption to Drive FinOps at Scale?

Jevin Jensen — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the evolving role of FinOps in large enterprises and how expectations for AI capabilities within FinOps tools are changing. As FinOps adoption reaches new levels, shifts in how organizations evaluate supporting technologies signal a broader transition in market priorities. These developments highlight a move toward greater operational discipline and raise important questions about how vendors should position and evolve their FinOps strategies.

IDC Survey: Power and Cooling as Strategic Priorities for Global Datacenter Operators

Olga Yashkova — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey report presents results from IDC's Datacenter Facilities and Operations Survey, 2025, comprised of responses from 320 datacenter facilities owners and operators worldwide. The study examines how organizations that own/lease and operate datacenter facilities are planning for 2026–2028, including rack density evolution and priorities for power and cooling to deliver new capacity, as well as anticipated capex and opex required to support datacenter expansion, modernization, and ongoing operations.