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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.

Anthropic, SpaceXAI, and the New Compute Race in AI

Arnal Dayaratna — Fri, 08 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Anthropic's agreement with SpaceXAI gives the company access to more than 300MW of capacity and more than 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs at Colossus 1. The deal shows how compute has become a primary axis of frontier AI competition as Claude, Claude Code, and agentic workflows drive larger training and inference requirements. It also reinforces NVIDIA's dominance, since Anthropic's largest new capacity block is NVIDIA based despite its deep relationships with Amazon and Google. For SpaceXAI, the agreement validates Colossus as an AI infrastructure platform and strengthens the SpaceXAI narrative ahead of a potential IPO.

SAP Doubles Down on Data: Acquisitions of Dremio and Prior Labs Accelerate Unified Data and AI Platform Vision

Stewart Bond, Marlanna Harrington, Megha Kumar, Mickey North Rizza — Fri, 08 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

SAP has announced definitive agreements to acquire two companies: Dremio, a data lakehouse federation and query engine built on Apache Iceberg and Apache Polaris, and Prior Labs, a European AI research lab specializing in tabular foundation models. Both transactions are subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approval, and are expected to close by 3Q26. Together, the acquisitions are designed to extend SAP's Business Data Cloud (BDC) from a harmonized SAP-focused platform into a broader, high-performance data platform capable of querying any data in place and running AI-driven predictions on structured tabular data. IDC views these moves as a deliberate effort to close the gap between enterprise data sprawl and production-ready agentic AI, addressing both the access layer (Dremio) and the intelligence layer (Prior Labs) in a single strategic step.

SAS Innovate 2026: Expanding CX decisioning capabilities creating new opportunities for the next 50 years

Roger Beharry Lall, Tapan Patel — Fri, 08 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Trust at Rest Won't Pass the Test: Cisco Moves to Secure the Agentic AI Layer

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

Identity security used to be predictable. Authenticate the user, assign roles, authorize access, and monitor behavior. The model worked because the system had a fixed cast of actors: people. These people had a finite number of tasks that could be performed.

VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 and the Era of the AI-Ready Private Cloud

Dave McCarthy, Gary Chen — Fri, 08 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

The announcement of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 signals Broadcom’s evolution from 9.0's integration-focused updates toward aggressive, innovation-led expansion. As enterprises face the challenge of rising hardware costs, sovereignty risks, and operational complexity, Broadcom positions VCF 9.1 as the antidote: a secure, cost-effective private cloud engineered for production AI.

Strategically timed to address a hardware supply crisis, including skyrocketing memory prices and GPU scarcity, this release enables IT leaders to extract new efficiencies from existing footprints. By improving memory tiering, native object storage, and automated resilience, VCF 9.1 bridges the gap between public cloud agility and on-premises control. Broadcom’s focus is clear: reducing AI workload TCO while delivering a cloud-native experience from the datacenter to the edge.

At Its 2026 EMEA Summit, the OCP Unveiled an Expanded Vision That Extends from Large Datacenters to the Network Edge and Across the Datacenter Stack from "Chip to Grid"

Chris Drake — Thu, 07 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

At its EMEA Summit in Barcelona, in a year marking its 15th anniversary, the Open Compute Project (OCP) demonstrated the growing maturity of the community, with an expanded vision that aims to tackle the challenges of building an open, end-to-end infrastructure for AI workloads. The OCP's growing focus on a wider range of infrastructure deployment environments — including those at the network edge — and its broader focus on the entire datacenter stack, which will include efforts to bridge the gap between energy grid capabilities and the increasing energy requirements of AI datacenters, is a powerful one that will further strengthen the OCP ecosystem and help fuel technology adoption.

IDC ProductScape: Worldwide AI-Enabled Utility Customer Experience Management Solutions, 2026

Gaia Gallotti, Jean-François Segalotto — Thu, 07 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

The IDC ProductScape offers a comprehensive guide on the key functionalities of AI-enabled utility customer experience management (CXM) solutions, featuring products from Ferranti, Kaluza, Kraken, Microsoft, Open Intelligence, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, and SEW.AI. The status of each functionality is categorized as fully supported, partially supported, partner provided, road map, or not supported, aiding technology purchasers in quickly identifying which vendors align with their changing requirements.

IDC ProductScape: Worldwide Carbon Accounting and Management Applications, 2026

Amy Cravens — Thu, 07 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC ProductScape offers a comprehensive guide on the key functionalities of carbon accounting and management applications, featuring products from Fujitsu, Greenly, IBM, IFS, Makersite, Normative, Novisto, osapiens, Persefoni, Quentic, Salesforce, SAP, Schneider Electric, Sphera, Sweep, UL Solutions, and Watershed. The status of each functionality is categorized as fully supported, partially supported, partner provided, road map, or not supported, aiding technology purchasers in quickly identifying which vendors align with their changing requirements.

IDC ProductScape: Worldwide Multi-Enterprise Supply Chain Commerce Network (MESCCN), 2025–2026

Simon Ellis, Reid Paquin — Thu, 07 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC ProductScape offers a comprehensive guide on the key functionalities of multi-enterprise supply chain commerce networks, featuring products from Bamboo Rose, Blue Yonder, Coupa, e2open, EdgeVerve, Exostar, GEP, IBM, Infor, Nulogy, o9 Solutions, OpenText, PartnerLinQ, SAP, Siemens, SPS Commerce, Tracelink, and TrueCommerce. The status of each functionality is categorized as fully supported, partially supported, partner provided, road map, or not supported, aiding technology purchasers in quickly identifying which vendors align with their changing requirements.