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Broadcom Charts Platform Engineering 2.0: Extending the IDP for the AI-Native Enterprise

Jim Mercer, Matthew Flug — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) business recently introduced Platform Engineering 2.0, a five-pillar framework that extends the discipline's foundation, platform as a product, golden paths, and self-service internal developer platforms (IDPs) into the AI era. The framework adds AI-native infrastructure, a multi-persona experience model, embedded FinOps, security that shifts down into the platform substrate, and a composable, API-first architecture to the existing foundation of platform engineering principles.

F5 Launches AI Security Platform and Operationalizes Model Evaluation for the Enterprise

Grace Trinidad, Christopher Rodriguez, Frank Dickson — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

On June 22, 2026, F5 launched its AI Security Platform, extending its Application Delivery and Security Platform strategy from web applications and APIs into enterprise AI applications, models, agents, and APIs. Anchored by the acquisition of SurePath AI, whose network-based technology supplies AI discovery, the platform runs as a continuous loop across four pillars, AI Discovery, AI Security Testing, AI Governance, and AI Runtime Protection, with an observability layer over them. It stress-tests systems against more than 140,000 attack patterns before production, enforces plain-language guardrails at runtime, and deploys across on-premises, air-gapped, private cloud, hybrid, and public cloud environments, with a reach aimed at regulated buyers. F5 cites its 2026 SOAS Report that 88% of organizations face an AI-related security challenge and 98% are preparing for agentic AI. IDC's read: F5's real contribution is not another control but a yardstick. Provenance records what a model is; CASI and ARS measure what it does under attack, comparably and every month, turning model trustworthiness from a vendor claim into a number an enterprise can rank, price, and re-verify.

Palantir and NVIDIA Announce Sovereign AI Partnership for Defense and National Security Agencies

Alan Webber — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Palantir Technologies and NVIDIA announced a joint engine on June 29, 2026, that runs NVIDIA's open-weight Nemotron models inside Palantir's Sovereign AI Operating System, built for U.S. government agencies and critical infrastructure operators that require classified or air-gapped deployment. The announcement extends a reference architecture the two companies published in March 2026 and gives defense and national security technology leaders a packaged answer to two questions that have slowed AI adoption in classified settings: where the data goes, and who owns the model.

DTW 2026 — Reality Check for Autonomous Networks, Agentic AI, and the Future of Telco Monetization

Chris Silberberg — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

DTW Ignite 2026 drew 3,000+ attendees to Copenhagen, with agentic AI, autonomous networks, AI monetization, and customer experience emerging as the event's defining cross-vendor themes. Though in some areas progress has not been as fast as expected, discussions were experience led, with progress being made in all areas.

Digital Engineering and Operational Technology Services Case Studies Showcase Report, Part 9: Physical AI Services

Francesca Ciarletta, Mukesh Dialani — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Tech Buyer presentation showcases 19 real-world physical AI service case studies that were successfully implemented. The case studies included in this Presentation were submitted by engineering services vendors and vetted by IDC. This is the ninth in a series of case-studies showcase reports that IDC has published over the last five years, covering topics ranging from digital twins and IT/OT convergence to AI and generative AI in product engineering services, where engineering services providers have become valuable partners in designing and implementing high-tech engineering solutions with tangible impact.

Status of Retail: Key Findings from the Global Retail Survey 2026 – IDC Retail Insights

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation presents the main results from IDC’s 2026 Retail Technologies and Business Process Trends Survey. The report examines the strategic priorities, technology investments, and operational challenges facing retailers worldwide, spanning six key domains: AI strategy, omni-channel commerce, customer experience and loyalty, store and workforce operations, supply chain management, and IT architecture and cybersecurity. The research draws on survey data from a global sample of retail decision-makers across subcategories including health and beauty, grocery, and specialty retail. It is complemented by case studies from leading retailers such as Sephora, Starbucks, Fanatics, and Walmart.

This study explores how retailers are allocating budgets across areas such as agentic AI, edge computing, RFID, merchandising technology, and loyalty platforms, providing a quantified view of where spending is increasing and which initiatives are currently being implemented or budgeted. Across all domains, the research benchmarks adoption rates, identifies the most urgent challenges practitioners face, and highlights the technology levers that retailers expect to drive revenue growth and operational resilience through 2026 and beyond.

IDC's Worldwide Enterprise Workload Infrastructure Taxonomy, 2026

Max Pepper, Natalya Yezhkova — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Taxonomy provides an overview of and definitions for IDC's Enterprise Workloads Infrastructure Stacks and Deployments syndicated research. It is also a base for IDC's Semiannual Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker: Workloads. Driven by extensive primary research and analysis, these products provide insights into trends in workload migration, workload virtualization, demand for certain compute and storage technologies for various workloads, and forecast spending on compute and storage systems supporting these workloads.

"IDC's enterprise workloads infrastructure research evaluates how server systems, external storage systems, and HCI appliances support workload applications and looks at the impact of various deployment models, locations, infrastructure tiers, virtualization architectures, and other influential factors on workload implementation at the infrastructure level. This helps provide actionable insights into buyer behavior to enable enterprises to best understand infrastructure modernization trends and strategies, especially as we see rapid evolution in trends in the face of artificial intelligence enablement," said Max Pepper, senior research analyst, Enterprise Workloads and Core Infrastructure at IDC.

Figma Config 2026: Canvas, Community, and Design Convergence

Wayne Kurtzman, Roger Beharry Lall, Tatsuhiro Soga, Jordan Jewell, Adam Resnick — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Over 10,000 Figma (NYSE: FIG) fans joined the annual Figma Config 2026 conference live at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California, from June 24 to June 26, 2026, with many more participating online. The event focused on four key themes: code as design material, AI-powered generative tools, motion and animation, and collaborative and creative workflows. These themes reflect Figma's broader message of expanding what is possible for designers by treating new materials as design tools, enabling AI-assisted creation, and fostering collaboration at every stage, from exploration to implementation.

HPE Juniper Networking Advances AI Networking Options for AI Training and Inference Deployments

Paul Nicholson — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

HPE CEO Antonio Neri set the tone from the main stage, declaring "architecture for AI starts with your network" and framing the network as "a security layer," not just a connectivity layer. On day 2, Rami Rahim, HPE's EVP and general manager for Networking, followed Neri directly on the main stage: a signal of strategic priority. Rahim's message was direct: "Your AI is as fast as your network." That framing, repeated across multiple sessions, reflects a company that has internalized the network's centrality to AI outcomes. Optimizing learning, inference, and operations were key datacenter areas covered.

IDC Survey: Energy Affordability Trends by Generation — Insights from IDC’s 2026 Energy Consumer Affordability & Trust Survey

Gaia Gallotti — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey examines a portion of IDC's 2026 Energy Consumer Affordability & Trust Survey. This landmark study, run in May 2026, is a B2C survey that covers energy customers around the world.

The survey covered 1,507 energy customers from the following 18 countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Italy, France, Germany, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, the U.K., the UAE, and the U.S.

This IDC Survey examines how energy affordability pressures differ across generational segments, comparing Gen Z and Millennial customers (aged 18 to 45) with those over 46.

The analysis covers:

Scale and severity of energy cost changes over the past 12 months
Perceived drivers behind cost increases
Actions taken to manage rising energy costs
Duration and persistence of payment difficulty
Concern about future energy costs
Perceived affordability relative to household income
Self-assessed ability to absorb further cost increases