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Broadcom Consolidates Its AI Portfolio Under VMware Private AI Cloud

Matthew Flug — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Broadcom's announcements at VMware Explore 2026 center on consolidating its AI portfolio under a single Private AI Cloud banner. The company intends to move what agentic workloads require in production, including agent containment, credential isolation, and gateway-level governance, from custom engineering to VCF platform services, positioning the private cloud as a viable destination for AI workloads.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Compliant e-Invoicing Solutions Vendor Assessment

Bo Lykkegaard, Kevin Permenter — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study presents a vendor assessment of e-invoicing compliance solution providers worldwide through the IDC MarketScape model. For this study, IDC evaluated 23 vendors with operations and customers across multiple regions, focused on the needs of global, enterprise-level organizations navigating the rapid worldwide spread of e-invoicing mandates. Of the vendors evaluated, all vendors participated in a structured request-for-information process, and most supported their responses with vendor briefings and customer reference interviews. IDC also conducted desk research on the vendors and their e-invoicing offerings. Vendors were evaluated based on their current capabilities and future strategies for delivering compliant e-invoicing to enterprise customers worldwide. As reflected in the inclusion criteria, all vendors evaluated support compliant e-invoicing across multiple regions and mandated countries.

“e-Invoicing has become a legal obligation that spans the globe, and choosing a compliance vendor is no longer a software purchase but a multiyear commitment to a partner that must keep pace with regulatory change in every market you operate in,” says Bo Lykkegaard, associate vice president on European Software Research, IDC. Lykkegaard adds, “The vendors that lead are those combining genuine native coverage in a buyer’s actual markets with proven responsiveness when a mandate goes live. Headline country counts and AI road maps matter far less than what reference customers experience under real pressure.”

IDC Market Glance: Korea AI Core Software, 2Q26

Daeil Chun — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Glance provides a concise current-state view of Korea’s AI core software market, spanning AI platform and applied AI software, and shows a market that is expanding rapidly, with forecast growth of 58.4% CAGR from 2025 to 2030. The presentation is intended to help business executives, product managers, and analyst relations teams understand how the market is structured, where it is concentrating, and how their organizations fit within the competitive landscape.

The market view highlights a clear shift toward AI platform capabilities, including AI build and deploy, MLOps, foundation models, GenAI life-cycle management, AI governance platforms, agent build and deploy, and agent orchestration. At the same time, applied AI remains relevant across conversational AI, search and knowledge discovery, computer vision, and document AI, with vendors increasingly repositioning around agent integration.

Market Forecast: Event-Driven Automation and Analytics Forecast, 2026–2030

Carlos Gonzalez — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides a five-year forecast for the worldwide event stream processing software market and examines the technology, deployment, and operational factors shaping growth through to 2030. Market revenue is forecast to increase from $11.1 billion in 2025 to $35.5 billion in 2030, representing a 26.2% CAGR, as enterprises expand event-driven architectures across application integration, operational analytics, IoT, automation, and agentic AI workloads.

Public cloud will account for most of the new investment, as managed services reduce the complexity of provisioning, scaling, monitoring, and maintaining distributed streaming environments. However, on-premises, edge, and hybrid deployments will remain important where workloads require predictable latency, data sovereignty, security, or direct operational control.

As event streaming becomes part of the runtime foundation for AI and automated decision-making, differentiation will extend beyond throughput and event transport. Enterprises will place greater value on resilient delivery, interoperability, state management, governance, lineage, observability, and the ability to connect real-time events to measurable operational outcomes. Adoption will depend not only on platform capabilities but also on enterprise readiness to redesign applications, establish ownership, and operate event-driven systems reliably at production scale.

Market Forecast: Worldwide Database Management Systems Software Forecast, 2026–2030 — Agentic AI, Multicloud Adoption, and Platform Consolidation Drive Market Growth

Devin Pratt — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation provides a five-year (2026–2030) forecast of the worldwide database management systems (DBMSs) software market, with estimates by deployment model (public cloud versus on premises), submarket, and region. It examines how agentic AI, multicloud and sovereignty adoption, and platform consolidation are reshaping demand, and identifies the developments database suppliers should track to position for growth across the forecast period.

Database buying has moved up the enterprise, from a technical purchase to an executive priority as AI and data strategy became board-level concerns. The next shift adds a third consumer, the autonomous agent, and suppliers that design for a multiagent world will lead the market through 2030.

“Database buying has moved to the C-suite as data and AI strategy became a board priority. Now, a third consumer enters, the autonomous agent. Suppliers that embed governance, semantic context, and autonomous operations into platforms working across multicloud and sovereign environments will lead through 2030.”— Devin Pratt, research director, Database Systems for Enterprise Intelligence, IDC

Market Share: Worldwide Database Management Systems Software Shares, 2025 — Agentic AI and Vendor Consolidation Reshape Competitive Dynamics

Devin Pratt — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation examines worldwide database management systems (DBMSs) software vendor revenue and market shares for 2025, with the market reaching $107.8 billion, up 15.8% over 2024. It analyzes share and growth across the leading vendors, by deployment model and region, and provides commentary on the competitive dynamics and AI-driven developments shaping the market, along with guidance for technology suppliers.

In 2025, the database market pivoted from adding AI features to operationalizing agentic AI, and growth concentrated among cloud and AI-native vendors that embedded vector retrieval, semantic layers, and autonomous operations as core platform capabilities rather than add-ons. Strategic M&A consolidated the market around integrated platforms supporting converged transactional, analytical, and agentic AI workloads simultaneously.

“The DBMS market expanded as databases became the operational foundation for AI, analytics, and automation. In 2025, leading vendors embedded vector search, autonomous operations, and AI model access directly into core platforms as baseline capabilities, with multicloud and hybrid flexibility and open standards becoming requirements rather than differentiators.” — Devin Pratt, research director, Database Systems for Enterprise Intelligence, IDC

Equinix Horizon 2026: From Interconnection Fabric to AI Infrastructure Orchestrator

Andrew Buss, Matthew Eastwood, Paul Nicholson, Rick Villars, Olga Yashkova — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Integrated Signing Workflow Software 2026 Vendor Assessment

Andrew Gens — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of the integrated signing workflow software market through the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment discusses both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that explain key methods for success and differentiation within the market. This IDC MarketScape covers a variety of vendors participating in the integrated signing workflow software space. The evaluation is based on a comprehensive and rigorous framework that assesses vendors relative to the criteria and to one another. It also highlights the factors expected to be the most influential for market success, both in the short term and the long term.

"The signature itself is no longer where this market is decided. Core electronic signature has become broadly available and increasingly commoditized, and IDC has seen vendors shift the competition to everything that surrounds it, from document and form generation through identity assurance to post-signature life-cycle automation. AI is the engine of that expansion, pulling document processing work that once sat outside the signing platform into the workflow itself and pushing vendors toward transactions that complete without manual intervention. Buyers are moving deliberately toward expanded AI capabilities, particularly generative and agentic capabilities, and the vendors that succeed over the next several years will be those that pair this new automation with evidence that it can be trusted." — Andrew Gens, senior research analyst, Document AI and Exchange, IDC

IDC Survey Spotlight: What Are the Top Barriers in Data Preparation and Management for Asia/Pacific Organizations?

Yih Khai Wong — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight summarizes findings from IDC's Asia/Pacific Data, AI, and GenAI Survey, highlighting Asia/Pacific organizations' data-related barriers that are impacting their AI/GenAI initiatives.

This document draws data from the data, AI and GenAI survey, which surveyed 540 organizations in the region for the following question: "What are the data-related challenges impacting your AI/GenAI initiatives?"

IDC Survey: What Agentic AI Demands of the Data Estate

Marlanna Harrington — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey examines the state of agentic AI in the enterprise through a data management lens, covering deployment maturity, data readiness, roadblocks to scale, automation, and value realization. Commitment to agentic AI is close to universal and no longer differentiates organizations. What separates organizations is production, where value realization rises sharply and automation of the data estate follows the same curve.

This IDC Survey explores how data readiness, capability standardization, governance, and measurement practices are shaping the ability to scale AI, and where differences in outcomes emerge across industries and levels of digital maturity. The question is no longer whether enterprises will invest in agentic AI, but whether the data estate can support what has already been funded.