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Atlassian Team '26: Teamwork Graph Emerges as an Organizational Context Layer for Agentic Development

Adam Resnick — Mon, 11 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Broadcom Announces VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1, Demonstrating Continued Investment in the VCF Platform

Adam Reeves — Mon, 11 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

On May 5, 2026, Broadcom announced VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1, spanning infrastructure efficiency, application delivery, and cyber resilience with a specific focus on private AI workloads. The release converts a set of forward-looking commitments made at VMware Explore 2025 into delivered capabilities and demonstrates Broadcom's continued investment in the VCF platform.

CIO Peer Perspective — IT Market Outlook and Leadership in Uncertain Times

Teodora Snoddy, Rick Villars — Mon, 11 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective discusses the CIO peer perspective on IT market outlook and leadership in uncertain times. This year, economic consequences from policy decisions are materializing, and geopolitical consequences are unfolding amid tension from unpredictable world leaders. C-suite executives are leaning on their CIO and technology teams to navigate uncertainty, using technology to enable strategic decision-making and sustain operational resilience.

To assess the impact and what comes next, we brought together IDC's latest data with insights from Chief Analyst Rick Villars, alongside our CIO Research Advisory board, to examine the implications for IT organizations.

"Much of the CEO's success this year will be driven by the CIO's ability to execute. Amid geopolitical, economic, and technological disruption, CIOs must continue to lead AI beyond experimentation to drive measurable business impact while continuously managing resilient operations. " — Teodora Snoddy, research manager, IDC

Reflections on RSAC 2026: The AI Foundation Sets While Legacy Challenges Promise Future Cracks

Christopher Rodriguez — Mon, 11 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective provides a retrospective analysis of the most pertinent application security topics and key takeaways from the RSA Conference. AI dominated RSA Conference 2026 narratives, but the real story is the gap between ambition and readiness and between risk and reward. Most organizations are building AI-powered applications but look to security providers to provide assurance. While a litany of dedicated AI-security solutions has emerged, and some AI companies have made marketable concessions, real gaps remain.

"In the era of AI cyberweapons and manifestos, security is the true indicator for AI readiness," said Christopher Rodriguez, research director, IDC Security and Trust. "Beyond simple adoption of LLMs to protect other LLMs, security providers may have to explore beyond familiar boundaries to find new sources of intelligence as part of their bigger mission to defend against exploit, theft, fraud, and abuse."

SUSECON 2026 Highlights: Geeko Goes AI and Sovereign

Ashish Nadkarni, Shahin Hashim, Gary Chen, Max Pepper — Mon, 11 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

SUSE is a company on a mission. It is making a concerted attempt to shift from a (Linux-centric) platform vendor to a full-stack open source infrastructure company. SUSE's announcements reflect timely attention to three converging enterprise pressures: enterprise AI deployment, regulatory and geopolitical complexity, and VMware licensing.

"With quite a few strategic bets in place, SUSE could quickly catapult ahead of its competition in terms of a strategic partners to enterprises that are focused on embracing modern, hybrid cloud, and AI-ready infrastructure," says Ashish Nadkarni, GVP/GM, Enterprise Infrastructure, IDC.

The Data Scientist in the AI Era: Opportunity Knocks

Stanley B. Gibson — Mon, 11 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective looks at the role of data scientist in the AI era. A decade and more ago, the emergence of big data shined a spotlight on data scientists whose expertise in understanding statistics and probability was critical in extracting predictive analytics insights. Much has changed since then. AI is now center stage, while big data insights have become more readily accessible thanks to the emergence of data lakehouses. Contrary to predictions of the demise of the data scientists, there are plenty of data scientists currently hard at work and data science jobs are growing faster than other jobs across the economy. Data scientists who embrace AI will fuel this growth. Their understanding of data, and their statistical and probability skills, are vital to the creation and evaluation of AI models.

"Data scientists not only remain relevant but are extremely important in the age of AI. Their knowledge of statistics and probability makes them indispensable. And data scientists are uniquely qualified to fill the role of HITL, diligently applying their knowledge to ensure that AI realizes its often astonishing potential," says Stanley B. Gibson, adjunct research advisor for IDC's Executive Programs (IEP).

Workiva Delivers Strong Q1 2026 Results, Approaches $1B ARR Milestone

Philip D. Harris, CISSP, CCSK — Mon, 11 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Workiva's Q1 2026 results — highlighted by 21% subscription revenue growth, 20% total revenue growth, 97% gross retention, and 112% net retention — approach $1B in ARR, signaling clear category leadership in integrated GRC and financial reporting. The launch of its AI-powered audit, risk, and controls platform reinforces a decisive market shift toward platform consolidation, positioning Workiva as a mission-critical enterprise infrastructure. However, growing competitive pressure from incumbent technology players such as SAP and ServiceNow poses a significant challenge, requiring Workiva to sustain differentiation through domain expertise and continuous AI innovation.

Databricks' MCP Marketplace Brings Real-Time Data Foundation for Agentic Marketing

Gerry Murray, Tapan Patel — Sun, 10 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Databricks' Model Context Protocol (MCP) Marketplace enables any MCP-compatible AI agent to query live enterprise data through a standardized open protocol, reducing the custom integrations; extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipelines; or engineering overhead. For marketing and customer experience teams, this means that AI agents can access current customer behavior, purchase history, predictive scores, and live external signals directly from where the data lives, thereby collapsing the latency between insight and action that has historically limited real-time marketing automation.

Global Energy Crisis and Economic Impact: Implications for the Oil and Gas and Utilities Sectors

John Villali, Gaurav Verma — Fri, 08 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective examines the global economic and operational impact of energy supply disruptions stemming from constrained flows through the Strait of Hormuz and escalating geopolitical tensions. It highlights how sustained volatility in oil and LNG markets is driving inflation, reshaping trade dynamics, and exposing structural dependencies across both energy systems and digital infrastructure. The analysis explores the uneven readiness of countries to pivot toward alternative energy sources, the economic trade-offs of accelerating the energy transition, and the evolving balance between geopolitical fragmentation and cooperation. It also outlines IDC's scenario-based outcomes for the global economy and underscores how energy-intensive sectors and technologies, including cloud and AI, must adapt to a more uncertain and cost-sensitive operating environment.

"Disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz underscore a fundamental shift: Energy volatility is no longer cyclical but structural. For energy producers and enterprise technology leaders alike, resilience will be defined by diversification of energy sources, supply chains, and digital infrastructure supported by intelligent data-driven decision-making," said John Villali, senior research director, IDC Energy Insights.

Identity Is Leaving the Login Layer: Twilio and Where Trust Happens Now

Emanuel Figueroa — Fri, 08 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Identity used to work like a front door. You show up, prove who you are and, once inside, everything else just ... happens.