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Cisco Live EMEA 2026: Embedding AI into All Aspects of UC&C Without Compromising on Security or Digital Resilience

Graham Fruin — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) held its annual EMEA event, Cisco Live, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, from February 10 to 12, 2026.

Cisco highlighted its advances in AI within its UC&C offerings, emphasizing security, digital resilience, and data sovereignty for European businesses. Cisco’s advances support hybrid and on-premises UC&C solutions, address local regulatory needs, and enhance meeting experiences. New mobile devices will target frontline workers, while interoperability across communications, AI integrations, and automation tools positions Cisco as a key player in Europe’s evolving collaboration landscape.

IDC ProductScape: Worldwide Wealth Management Technology Services for Investment Advisors, 2025

Thomas Shuster — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

The IDC ProductScape offers a comprehensive guide on the key functionalities of wealth management technologies for investment advisors, featuring products from Avaloq, Broadridge, Charles River Development, FIS, FNZ Group, InvestCloud, Objectway, Orion Advisor Solutions, SEI Wealth, SimCorp, SS&C Technologies, TCS, and Temenos. The status of each functionality is categorized as fully supported, partially supported, partner-provided, road map, or not supported, helping technology purchasers quickly identify which vendors align with their evolving requirements.

Worldwide Application Performance Management Forecast, 2026–2029

Shannon Kalvar, Archana Venkatraman — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation provides the five-year forecast for application performance management and delivers insight into the drivers and inhibitors of growth.

“Application performance management is one of the key competencies enabling successful AI deployments.” — Shannon Kalvar, research director, Enterprise Systems Management, Enterprise Client Platforms, Observability, and AIOps, IDC

Anthropic Touts Claude Code for COBOL Modernization

Michele Rosen, PhD — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Anthropic's recommendation that enterprises use tools like Claude Code to automate key phases of the COBOL modernization process underscores the growing role of AI in legacy application modernization, with market impact contingent on the tools' ability to deliver high-quality results for mission-critical enterprise applications.

Apple Introduces $599 MacBook Neo, Expanding Its Reach Downward into the Entry-Level Notebook Market

Tom Mainelli — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Apple has introduced the MacBook Neo, its first new Mac priced at $599 and $499 for education, marking a significant move into the sub-$600 notebook market. At a time when memory costs are rising across the PC ecosystem, Apple's aggressive pricing, modern design, and ecosystem strength position the MacBook Neo to reshape competition in both consumer and education segments.

IDC Survey Spotlight: How Is the Transition to Flexible Working Models Impacting Mail and Customer/Employee Communications?

Robert Palmer — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight examines data collected from IDC's 2025 Mailroom Management and Services Survey. IDC conducted a U.S.-based survey that evaluated trends in mailroom management and operations. The goal of the survey was to understand current conditions and challenges in mailroom operations, adoption trends around mailroom outsourcing and digital mail, benefits and barriers to adoption of digital mailroom solutions, and ongoing trends around digital versus printed mail. This Survey Spotlight examines respondent perspectives regarding the impact of flexible work policies (hybrid work) on the transition to digital mail.

IDC Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight: How Do Talent Acquisition Priorities Vary Between HR and IT Leaders?

Abhinav Shrivastava — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight draws from IDC's Global HCM Survey, 2025. It highlights the differences in talent acquisition (TA) priorities between HR and IT leaders. While HR leaders prioritize recruiting effectiveness, IT leaders focus on seamless operational integrations. Both groups align on the need to accelerate access to skilled talent, as reflected in similar expectations for improved speed to hire. However, widespread misalignment between HR's outcome metrics and IT's architecture priorities can slow talent acquisition transformation, underscoring the need for structured HR-IT collaboration and a shared evaluation framework to enable faster hiring, stronger skills validation, and improved experiences.

IDC's Worldwide Storage and Computing Infrastructure Software Platforms Taxonomy, 2026

Shahin Hashim, Phil Goodwin, Ryan Caskey — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC taxonomy document provides a detailed description of our storage and computing infrastructure software platforms (SCISP) research coverage. It defines the functional markets and submarkets that make up IDC's SCISP program, including core coverage areas of storage software and physical and virtual computing software.

For 2026, this taxonomy introduces the private cloud market as an additional program scope, representing the aggregate market for infrastructure hardware and software used to build and operate dedicated cloud environments. This document defines the three contributing layers of the private cloud market, infrastructure hardware, infrastructure software, and experience/operations/management software, along with the seven qualifying attributes that distinguish private cloud from other deployment models.

Worldwide Service Mesh Forecast, 2026–2030

Paul Nicholson, Taranvir Singh, Petr Jirovsky — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation forecasts and analyzes key trends impacting the worldwide service mesh market for 2026–2030.

"As service mesh deployments mature, organizations are evolving with a goal to enhance agility and resource efficiency for microservices-based network architectures and associated requirements for AI." — Paul Nicholson, research vice president, Cloud and Datacenter Networks.

Capgemini: A Key Consortium Partner in Protecting the EU’s Critical Digital Infrastructure

David Clemente, Craig Robinson — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT