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AI Factories: Emerges as the Core Infrastructure Building Block for the Token Economy

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation provides IDC's definition for AI factories, an emerging class of IT infrastructure designed to standardize and accelerate the buildout of IT platforms optimized for the unique needs of production-scale AI workloads. The presentation covers three major topics:

What is an AI factory?
How are AI factories transforming AI infrastructure architectures and operating models?
How do AI factories impact infrastructure markets?

The presentation highlights major AI factory components and integration strategies and notes how AI factories will be covered across IDC's Trackers and taxonomies.

Equinix Deploys Secure AI Factories Across Global Datacenter Footprint in Collaboration with Cisco and NVIDIA

Andrew Buss, Mikhail Jaura, Luis Fernandes — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Equinix has expanded its collaboration with Cisco and NVIDIA to deploy the Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA across its global datacenter footprint, while also partnering with Presidio to bring the Programmable AI Technology Hub (P.A.T.H.) Lab into its facilities so enterprises can test and validate AI infrastructure before committing to full-scale deployment.

By combining standardized AI factory blueprints, NVIDIA reference architectures, and Equinix's interconnection density, specialized power, and advanced cooling, the initiative aims to de-risk AI investments and help customers move projects smoothly from pilot to production at scale.

HPE Discover 2026: From AI Infrastructure to the Agentic Enterprise

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

HPE Discover 2026 marked a meaningful step in HPE’s shift from an AI infrastructure provider to an enterprise AI operating platform. The event centered on operationalizing AI at scale through a more unified architecture spanning GreenLake, Private Cloud AI, networking, storage, security, and financial services. HPE positioned GreenLake Intelligence as an emerging control plane for agentic operations. Private Cloud AI also expanded its focus to governance, data readiness, and production AI workflows. Networking emerged as one of the most strategically significant themes of the event. Following the Juniper acquisition, HPE is positioning networking as both an enabler of AI infrastructure and a beneficiary of AI-driven automation. Self-driving networking was another major theme, reinforced by deeper Aruba-Juniper integration across campus, data center, edge, and AI Factory environments. HPE also sharpened its infrastructure economics story through Morpheus, VMware migration offers, HPEFS, and new ecosystem partnerships. Collectively, the announcements position HPE around governance, autonomous operations, networking intelligence, sovereignty, and AI-era economics.

IDC MarketScape Criteria: Worldwide Print Management Solutions 2026 Independent Software Vendor Assessment

Evan Hardie, Geoffrey Wilbur, Tim Greene — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Perspective provides a description of the market definitions and assessment criteria for IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Print Management Solutions 2026 Independent Software Vendor Assessment (forthcoming).

"As the complexity of customers' print management needs and security requirements continue to increase, vendors are adjusting their offerings to meet their customers' evolving needs, including an accelerating cloud transition and increased integration of artificial intelligence," says Evan Hardie, senior research director, Imaging, Printing, and Document Solutions at IDC. "By evaluating the print management solution competitive landscape, IDC can help businesses understand the breadth and importance of these solutions and where to turn for help."

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Sustainability Strategy Services 2026 Vendor Assessment

Dan Versace — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides a comprehensive analysis of the global sustainability strategy services market, highlighting a pivotal shift from compliance-driven engagements to sustainability as a lever for enterprise value creation, operational resilience, and capital allocation. This transformation is propelled by evolving buyer demand, regulatory complexity, and the rapid maturation of AI technologies, fundamentally reshaping service offerings, delivery models, and commercial structures.

Five key trends define the current market landscape: the repositioning of sustainability from compliance to value, the ubiquity and integration of AI in sustainability workflows, the crystallization of two delivery archetypes (pure-play strategy advisory and integrated tech-led services), regulation as a demand engine rather than the end goal, and the evolution of commercial models toward outcome-based and risk-reward pricing. Vendors are increasingly embedding sustainability KPIs into core business metrics; leveraging generative and agentic AI for disclosure, scenario modeling, and regulatory horizon scanning; and offering platform-based solutions for continuous compliance and operational support.

Vendor differentiation now centers on delivery model, technology depth, sector specialization, and commercial flexibility. The assessment profiles leading global firms — including Accenture, Atos, Bain & Company, BCG, Capgemini, CGI, Deloitte, EY, Fujitsu, IBM, KPMG, McKinsey, NTT DATA, PwC, Schneider Electric, and TCS — detailing their strategic direction, depth of capabilities, proprietary platforms, and sector-specific expertise. Each vendor’s strengths and challenges are evaluated, with guidance for buyers to match delivery archetype to internal readiness, assess AI maturity, plan for procurement complexity, and validate industry and geographic specificity.

The market rewards vendors that connect environmental ambition to financial outcomes, operationalize through AI-enabled platforms, and sustain transformation via managed services. Vendor selection is less about who offers sustainability services and more about which archetype, sector depth, technology stack, and commercial structure best fit the buyer’s transformation agenda. The assessment underscores the importance of starting with the business question, aligning vendor selection to organizational readiness, and being deliberate about scope, scale, and commercial structure.

In summary, the sustainability strategy services market is at an inflection point, with leading vendors positioned to drive enterprisewide transformation by integrating sustainability into core business strategy, leveraging advanced technology, and delivering measurable outcomes. Buyers are advised to prioritize value creation, technology integration, and sector-specific expertise when selecting partners for their sustainability journey.

“Sustainability strategy is no longer a compliance checkbox; it’s the new engine of enterprise value, capital allocation, and operational resilience. In 2026, the winners will be those who embed sustainability into the P&L, harness AI as a core enabler, and transform ambition into measurable business outcomes,” said Dan Versace, senior research analyst on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Business Services at IDC.

IDC’s Worldwide Used Device Tracker Taxonomy, 2026

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides a comprehensive overview and definitions for the used device market. The definitions provided in this document represent the scope of IDC’s used device research. This taxonomy outlines market segmentations and measurement methodologies for the used smartphone industry, including classification by technology, vendor, geography, and revenue metrics.

“IDC’s used device taxonomy presents a standardized and detailed framework of the used smartphone market,” says Anthony Scarsella, research director for IDC’s Mobile Phone Tracker. “The taxonomy document serves as a guide for users to understand how the used smartphone market data is collected, processed, and monitored on an ongoing basis.”

Ivalua Launches IVA Studio: IVA is All Grown Up – a Polished and Powerful Showcase for the Ivalua AI Strategy

Patrick Reymann — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Ivalua has formalized the general availability of IVA (Intelligent Virtual Agent) and its underlying agentic engine, IVA Studio, marking a decisive step beyond the chatbot era into fully agentic, autonomous procurement execution. Built on a 100% organically developed, unified S2P data platform, IVA is architected as a true cross-platform single agent, capable of taking action across the entire S2P lifecycle from supplier onboarding and sourcing through contract management, eProcurement, and accounts payable, eliminating the hassle of today’s agent swarm with governance enforced at every step, LLM portability, and a compounding Skills framework that converts organizational expertise into reusable, auditable AI behavior.. IVA is not a bolt-on or an API-connected overlay; it is the platform acting with intelligence, and it is ready from day one.

Konica Minolta Boosts Industrial Print at CEC Event

Tim Greene — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note highlights key takeaways from the recent Konica Minolta Industrial Print event. The event content included a review of the Konica Minolta portfolio and a panel discussion that aligned the portfolio with market needs.

NVIDIA GTC 2026：為AI代理而生——NVIDIA的全棧AI策略

Helen Chiang, Jeff Janukowicz, Galen Zeng — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本IDC市場筆記深入解析NVIDIA在2026年GTC台北論壇上的各項發表內容，探討其對晶片供應商、基礎架構合作夥伴及企業買家的影響。NVIDIA宣示AI正從「問/答」走向「自主/行動」，Agentic運算將成為新一代核心工作負載。為引領這場轉型，NVIDIA持續強調以「AI工廠」為核心概念的全棧策略，目標是以最低token成本大規模生產智慧。此次重點發表包括Vera Rubin平台、Vera CPU、Spectrum-X乙太網路光子交換器，以及DSX平台，將為企業打造一套建置與營運AI工廠的完整行動手冊。

從IDC的角度來看，產業競爭焦點正從晶片層級向全棧能力轉移，而DSX最終有望成為AI工廠架構的定義性標準——其所構築的護城河，或許比CUDA本身更為深遠持久。

SAP Sapphire 2026: SAP Makes the Leap to "The Beginning of Better" as an AI-Forward Platform

Max Pepper — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note evaluates SAP's announcements at SAP Sapphire 2026, where SAP repositioned itself as a business AI company and recalibrated its RISE with SAP and SAP GROW programs. It analyzes how these changes align with customer migration behavior captured in IDC's SAP Infrastructure View and with broader enterprise workload spending trends. The document also assesses how SAP can do more to highlight security messaging and manage residual complexity in its RISE with SAP and GROW positioning.