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Broadcom Mainframe AR Forum 2026: Agentic AI Comes to the Mainframe on the Platform's Own Terms

Jim Mercer — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

At its 2026 Analyst Forum in Boston, Broadcom's Mainframe Software Division (MSD) laid out an agentic AI strategy anchored in the idea that AI capabilities belong within products customers already license, not in separate AI-branded SKUs that require new procurement cycles. The company unveiled an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server road map spanning its DevOps, Data Management, and AIOps value streams, with several tools already in beta under existing entitlements. Broadcom also reaffirmed Open Mainframe Project Zowe's role as the open source integration layer enabling both modern developer tooling and MCP-based AI connectivity.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Quantum Computing 2026 Vendor Assessment

Heather West, PhD — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides an assessment of worldwide quantum computing vendors with commercially available offerings through the IDC MarketScape model.

“2026 marks an inflection point for the quantum computing industry. Although fault-tolerant quantum computing has not yet been fully realized, a growing body of empirical business and scientific results is beginning to validate the long-term commercial direction of the market,” said Heather West, PhD, senior research manager and research lead, Global Quantum Computing Research, IDC. “As a result, vendors are increasingly competing not just as hardware developers, but as providers of broader quantum computing platforms integrating software, HPC, AI, cloud, and sovereign infrastructure capabilities.”

Market Forecast: IDC Global StorageSphere Forecast, 2026–2030

Adam Wright — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study presents a forecast for the IDC Global StorageSphere market and delivers insights into the drivers and inhibitors of growth. The IDC Global StorageSphere sizes the worldwide installed base of storage capacity, the data stored on it, and the capacity available each year.

"Despite headwinds from storage efficiency improvements and macroeconomic uncertainty, the fundamental drivers of StorageSphere growth remain intact. Enterprise AI adoption and the growing strategic value of data retention will propel the global installed base of storage capacity to more than 26ZB in 2030." — Senior Research Manager Adam Wright, Global DataSphere and Global StorageSphere, IDC

Market Forecast：国内SD-WAN市場予測、2026年～2030年

Yoko Ono — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本調査レポートでは、インフラストラクチャ、マネージドサービス、プロフェッショナルサービスで構成される国内SD-WAN（Software-Defined Wide Area Network）市場に関して、2025年の実績および2026年～2030年の市場予測および展望を提供する。

「国内SD-WAN市場は2025年も二桁成長を継続しており、今後も、AI（Artificial Intelligence）の普及やセキュリティ需要の拡大がその勢いを後押しして引き続き成長すると予測する。通信事業者を含むITサプライヤーには、複雑化する顧客要件への対応力強化、SSE（Security Service Edge）の中堅企業層への展開、AIエージェント時代を見据えた広域ネットワークビジョンの提示の3点を提言する」とIDC Japan、Network & Securityのリサーチマネージャーである小野陽子は述べている。

Photonic Computing Moves Closer to Commercial Viability: Q.ANT Demonstrates

Heather West, PhD — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

At ISC High Performance 2026, Q.ANT's second-generation photonic NPU ran both a generative AI diffusion model and NXAI's xLSTM-based TiRex for sequential prediction, the first time a diffusion model of this complexity has executed on photonic hardware. IDC views the demonstrations, alongside Q.ANT's PyTorch integration, first commercial orders, and European supercomputing deployments, as evidence that photonic computing is transitioning from research to early commercial platform, though system-level efficiency validation remains a key next step.

SAP Sapphire 2026: How SAP’s Autonomous Enterprise Architecture Shifts Sustainability from Disclosure to Decision

Amy Cravens — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note summarizes key takeaways from SAP Sapphire 2026 and the SAP Industry Analyst Summit held in May 2026. SAP Sapphire marked a pivotal shift in sustainability, embedding operational controls directly into enterprise workflows via the Autonomous Enterprise architecture. Powered by AI agents and a unified data platform, SAP moves sustainability from reporting to actionable decision-making across finance and supply chain. This integrated approach addresses gaps in data, governance, and execution, positioning organizations to operationalize sustainability and drive measurable outcomes rather than relying on post hoc disclosures.

Securing the Agentic Enterprise: Part 1 — Updating IDC’s Cybersecurity Capabilities Assessment Framework for the AI Age

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective updates IDC’s Cybersecurity Capabilities Assessment Framework for the era of agentic AI, emphasizing that while security fundamentals persist, control must shift to continuous, identity-driven governance. It details how agentic AI introduces new external, internal, and emergent risks, requiring recalibration across all security domains. The framework’s maturity phases and domains are reexamined for agentic environments, and actionable recommendations are provided to help technology buyers adapt, prioritize identity-centric controls, and maintain resilience amid ongoing disruption.

“While the fundamentals of security remain unchanged, agentic AI profoundly alters the threat landscape. The greatest risk is not external attack, but self-inflicted disruption from poorly governed agents. Enterprises must treat continuous disruption as the new normal and recalibrate their security strategies accordingly,”said Duncan Brown, group vice president, Worldwide Security Products, Worldwide Sustainability at IDC.

The Emerging Partnerships Between Datacenter Facilities Providers and AI Infrastructure Leaders

Andrew Buss, Luis Fernandes, Mikhail Jaura — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation provides a view of key emerging partnerships between datacenter facilities vendors and leading AI infrastructure players across four key AI infrastructure categories. It provides a heatmap of the partner relationships, scored based on the presence and strength of a formal partnership, coupled with analysis on where the partnering ecosystem has developed most rapidly and where further development is likely in the future.

"The rapid development of AI infrastructure and solutions has resulted in a rapid increase in technology infrastructure power density, performance, and scale. Suitable datacenter capacity to house these systems at scale is becoming scarce and being sold at a premium," says Andrew Buss, senior research director and datacenter research lead, IDC. "Datacenter facilities service providers will be key partners to enable successful AI infrastructure deployments for many organizations, and the strength in breadth and depth of their partnerships with leading AI infrastructure providers will be core to their ability to service the most demanding customers."

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.