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Dell Technologies World 2026: AI Focus Dominates Dell's Storage Roadmap

Natalya Yezhkova, Carol Sliwa, Ashish Nadkarni — Tue, 26 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

At Dell Technologies World (DTW) 2026, the company made a series of announcements spanning primary storage, object storage, cyber resiliency, and data management for AI workloads, reflecting a broader industry shift toward treating storage as a foundational layer in an AI infrastructure stack. Core announcements included Dell PowerStore Elite, an upgrade to its all-flash storage system; enhancements to the Dell AI Data Platform, including new orchestration and search capabilities; a new high-density ObjectScale X7700 storage appliance; and the completion of the Exascale Storage portfolio with the forthcoming addition of PowerFlex block storage.

Dell Technologies World 2026: Operationalizing AI at Enterprise Scale

Matthew Eastwood, Tom Mainelli, Ashish Nadkarni, Leslie Rosenberg — Tue, 26 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

At Dell Technologies World 2026, Dell advanced its “full stack” AI-ready IT portfolio by announcing developments in compute, data management, storage, networking, cyber recovery, AI-enabled automation, end-user devices, and IT services. Dell positioned AI infrastructure as the foundation for data lifecycle management, emphasizing “AI for infrastructure and infrastructure for AI.” A highlight was the enhanced AI Factory narrative, marking a shift from reference architecture to production-scale systems. The event underscored that enterprise AI is progressing from pilots to operational deployment, where data access, GPU utilization, sovereignty, and hybrid placement decisions are increasingly important. Dell conveyed that success in AI now hinges on the design, deployment, and operation of integrated AI systems at scale—requiring the right hardware across hybrid, multicloud, on-premises data centers, and desktops. Enterprises must manage token economics, enabling customers to use their own data for AI model development while controlling bandwidth and token costs.

NVIDIA FY 1Q27 Results: Scaling the Intelligence Economy

Matthew Eastwood, Ashish Nadkarni — Tue, 26 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Red Hat Summit 2026: From Orbit to the Factory Floor-Edge Computing as Enterprise Strategy

Olga Yashkova — Tue, 26 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Red Hat Summit 2026 was held in Atlanta from May 11 to 13, 2026, during which Red Hat highlighted the growing importance of edge computing as a core enterprise infrastructure strategy. The company made several announcements to showcase the evolution of its open source platforms across highly distributed and demanding environments, ranging from low-Earth orbit and industrial edge deployments to sovereign AI cloud infrastructures.

The Agentic Horizon: Google I/O 2026 Outlines the Next Era of AI

Dave McCarthy, Matthew Eastwood — Tue, 26 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Google I/O 2026 marked a pivotal milestone, signaling a decisive shift from passive chatbots to proactive, agentic AI systems embedded natively across its ecosystem. Under the banner of the "Agentic Gemini Era," CEO Sundar Pichai showcased a highly synchronized lineup of hardware, software, and protocol upgrades designed to integrate autonomous AI into daily life. To fuel this transition, Google is leveraging immense scale, now processing a staggering 3.2 quadrillion tokens per month—a massive seven-fold increase over the 480 trillion tokens reported last year.

At the core of this transition are two major architectural leaps: Gemini 3.5 Flash, a hyper-fast model optimized for multi-step agentic workflows, and Gemini Spark, a persistent background agent executing complex actions on behalf of the user. By combining Gemini models with new open protocols, Google has laid the groundwork for secure, transactional AI. The event demonstrated that Google's full-stack approach, spanning custom TPU silicon, Android 17, Android XR smart glasses, and ubiquitous distribution, builds competitive differentiation that pure-play software competitors will struggle to match.

AT&T, Cisco, and NVIDIA Target Edge AI Opportunities in IoT

John Gole — Mon, 25 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note reviews AT&T’s collaboration with Cisco and NVIDIA to deliver AI inference at the network edge for IoT use cases. IDC analyzes the initiative as a pragmatic effort to focus first on mature, video‑centric deployments as a way to stimulate broader market adoption of telco‑enabled edge computing.

EY Bets on Trust as Architecture: AI-Native Cybersecurity and Risk at the 2026 Global Analyst Summit

Cathy Huang, Philip D. Harris, CISSP, CCSK — Mon, 25 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

EY convened its 2026 Global Analyst Summit with a theme that has shifted from "rethinking" to "realizing" value, a deliberate signal that the firm is moving from strategic ambition into execution. For cybersecurity and risk practitioners, the summit's signal was equally direct: EY is repositioning trust not as a compliance output but as embedded operational architecture. Through its EY.ai platform, the firm is converging cybersecurity, risk management, regulatory compliance, and AI governance under a unified trust framework while simultaneously deploying AI to industrialize the delivery of those services.

IDC Security and Trust Forum 2026, Japan：IT分散とゼロトラスト時代における広域ネットワークの選択

Yoko Ono — Mon, 25 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本Conference Proceeding: Buyerは、IDC Japan、Network & Securityのリサーチマネージャーである小野陽子による講演の内容をプレゼンテーションスライドと音声ファイルによって提供するものである。

ITの分散が進むと同時にゼロトラストセキュリティに対する支持が高まっている。今後、AIの浸透によって、ITの分散はますます進み、これらをネットワークでつなぐ必要性が高まるであろう。国内WAN市場ではこれに対応した変化が進行中である。これらを踏まえ、本講演では、現在、通信業界が市場に何を提案し、ユーザー企業がどのような選択を行っているか、また今後、どのようなソリューションが必要かについて概観する。

全球半導體製造服務之亞太區IC設計市場佔比，2025年：供應商排名及動態觀察

Galen Zeng — Sun, 24 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

中國大陸業者整體表現亮眼，在AI本土算力爆發與信創政策持續支持下，海思、海光分別以60.3%與57.5%的高速成長率脫穎而出。海光首次進入亞太前十大排名，取代希領半導體（LX Semicon）佔據第九位。此外，三星LSI（Samsung LSI）2025年全年營收年減7.2%，主因SoC市場競爭加劇；然而隨著Exynos 2600針對Galaxy S26系列的導入計畫推進，以及200MP圖像感測器新品持續獲主要客戶採用，三星半導體整體在2025年末展現強勁復甦動能，LSI業務有望於2026年重回成長軌道。

IDC資深研究經理曾冠瑋表示：「2025年亞太區IC設計市場在AI算力爆發與消費電子持續復甦的雙重驅動下，整體市場動能強勁。尤其是中國大陸業者在國產替代與AI需求催化下展現出超預期的成長爆發力，而台灣業者則持續深化AI應用與先進製程布局，鞏固全球競爭力。展望2026年，在美中科技競爭加劇、關稅政策不確定性延續的背景下，亞太區IC設計市場仍具韌性，預計市場規模達1,027億美元，年成長率達14.0%。」

Adobe Workfront — Evolving AI-Driven Workflow, Collaboration, and Workspace Management Across Adobe Experience Cloud

Melinda-Carol Ballou, Wayne Kurtzman — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Adobe announced enhancements to Adobe Workfront at its Summit conference last month, centered on AI-driven workflow optimization, intelligent workspace management, and expanded collaboration capabilities across the Adobe Experience Cloud ecosystem. The announcements reflect a broader shift toward embedding AI agents and natural language interfaces directly into work management platforms to help improve execution speed, data access, coordination, and decision-making. These updates position Workfront as a more integrated system of execution within Adobe's experience platform, linking planning, content production, and operational workflows.

As organizations must optimize business execution across widely distributed geographies amid economic, geopolitical, and supply chain volatility, augmenting planning in conjunction with AI is a core focus across organizations in conjunction with effective AI governance and agentic orchestration. This IDC Link outlines key elements of the Adobe Workfront announcements and assesses implications for enterprise work management, effective planning, and prioritization with AI-enabled process automation.