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Market Analysis Perspective: European Unified Communications and Collaboration, 2026

Graham Fruin — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides detailed insights into the European unified communication and collaboration market, highlighting current and future trends. It demonstrates how the market will evolve and pinpoints what will become hot prospects for driving future market success.

NVIDIA GTC 2026: NVIDIA's AI Factory Shift

Matthew Eastwood, Brandon Hoff, Jeff Janukowicz, Dave McCarthy, Ashish Nadkarni — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

At GTC 2026 in San Jose, NVIDIA highlighted a new phase in the evolution of AI infrastructure centered on AI factories, inference economics, and the expansion of AI into agentic and physical domains. Keynote and event announcements showcased rack-scale systems, integrated networking and software platforms, infrastructure optimized for token generation, and frameworks supporting multi-model agents, robotics, autonomous systems, and edge AI. IDC notes that these developments reflect a broader structural shift: AI infrastructure is evolving from accelerator-centric deployments into integrated production environments designed to support continuous inference, higher-level AI services, and application-driven outcomes across cloud, enterprise, sovereign, and industrial markets.

SAP 4Q25 and Full Year 2025 Results: Building the Business of the Future with an AI Foundation

Mickey North Rizza, Bo Lykkegaard, Daniel-Zoe Jimenez, Robert Parker — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Perspective discusses SAP’s 4Q25 and full year 2025 results. SAP 4Q25 earnings and full year 2025 finds cloud and business AI setting up 2026. This document is a review of the earnings so organizations can understand what it means to them. It also discusses the new clients SAP is reporting for the quarter and breaks the information out by region.

“The world is shifting to AI powered. SAP is embedding AI into its processes and using it with contextualized data to make it easier for organizations to operate in 2026 and beyond,” said Mickey North Rizza, group vice president, Enterprise Software. “Agents are the new Apps of the AI digital world. Look for SAP to continue to embrace AI.”

Strategic Intelligence: Harnessing AI to Redefine Supply Chain Execution

Travis Eide — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective explores how AI is transforming supply chain execution from siloed, spreadsheet-driven processes to intelligent, adaptive, and autonomous operations. "The supply chains that will thrive tomorrow are those that approach AI as a strategic, enterprisewide transformation, using it to redefine execution as a true competitive advantage built on resilience, agility, productivity, safety, security, and sustainability," says Travis Eide, research director on global supply chain execution, IDC. Eide adds, "By leveraging traditional AI, GenAI, and agentic AI, organizations can achieve predictive accuracy, operational resilience, and sustainable growth. Success hinges on robust data governance, strategic technology alignment, and flexible pricing models, positioning AI as a foundational driver of competitive advantage in increasingly complex global supply chains."

A Framework for ITSM Market Intersections: How IT Service Management Connects Functions to Deliver Value

Snow Tempest — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study addresses the evolving market for IT service and enterprise service management solutions. It presents a framework for intersecting markets to help vendors define their alignments and help tech buyers better understand how products and vendors fit with their goals.

AWS and Cerebras Collaborate on Disaggregated AI Inference to Challenge NVIDIA

Dave McCarthy, Brandon Hoff — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

The partnership between AWS and Cerebras integrates Cerebras’ massive CS-3 systems directly into AWS datacenters, coupling them with Amazon’s proprietary Trainium3 AI chips to power a new, ultra-fast generative AI inference service accessible through Amazon Bedrock.

At the heart of this announcement is a novel architectural approach called "inference disaggregation." Rather than relying on a monolithic GPU to process an entire AI request, AWS and Cerebras are splitting the workload. AWS’s Trainium processors will handle the computationally intensive "prefill" phase, while Cerebras’ Wafer-Scale Engines (WSE) will execute the memory-bandwidth-heavy "decode" phase.

From Factories to the Fabric: Akamai, NVIDIA, and the Dawn of Distributed AI

Dave McCarthy — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

The AI infrastructure market has reached a critical inflection point. While the initial era of generative AI was defined by massive, centralized AI factories purpose-built for training frontier models, the industry is now pivoting rapidly toward the commercialization and execution phase: inference. As enterprise AI scales to include real-time physical AI, autonomous agents, and highly concurrent multimodal applications, the physical distance between compute resources and end-users has become a bottleneck.

Addressing this fundamental physics problem, Akamai Technologies recently announced its global-scale implementation of the NVIDIA AI Grid reference architecture via its Akamai Inference Cloud. By overlaying an intelligent orchestration control plane onto geographically distributed nodes, Akamai’s platform can dynamically route inference workloads based on latency, cost, and resource availability.

For enterprise buyers, this signals the maturation of edge AI from pilot projects into production-grade infrastructure capable of supporting the next generation of real-time, low-latency applications.

IDC Market Glance: Facility Management, 1Q26

Brian O'Rourke — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Glance provides the landscape of facility management (FM) subsegments and associated segments, including definitions and a list of companies within each subsegment and associated segments. It is intended to lay out in graphical detail how IDC defines and thinks about the facility management applications market.

Identity for Agentic AI: Teleport Launches Beams

Frank Dickson, Grace Trinidad, Emanuel Figueroa — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

NVIDIA Expands Cuda-Q and NVQLink to Accelerate Quantum Development and Adoption at GTC 2026

Heather West, PhD — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

At GTC 2026, NVIDIA reinforced its position as a platform provider for quantum computing, focusing on the infrastructure and software needed to scale hybrid quantum-classical systems. This strategy is likely to accelerate ecosystem alignment and lower barriers to adoption as the market moves toward practical quantum applications.