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Increased European Spending on Services: Opportunity for Print Providers to Support Customers' Reinvention Plans

Jacqui Hendriks, Matthew Wilkins — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note reviews the European IT services opportunity to print service providers, given the fragmented competitive nature of the market and demand for solutions to support customers' reinvention plans.

Market Forecast: Worldwide Content Delivery Networks Forecast, 2026–2030

Ghassan Abdo — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation provides a worldwide forecast for the commercial content delivery networks (CDNs) market covering the 2026–2030 period. The architectural underpinnings of CDNs with massively distributed caching servers, supported with content acceleration algorithms, continue to provide the resiliency needed to manage substantial increases in media and web traffic, especially peak demand periods. CDN providers are augmenting content delivery with security, edge computing services, and observability to capitalize on growth potential in these areas.

"The transformation of the CDN marketplace is ongoing with a pivot toward enhanced edge use cases anchored in data sovereignty, inferencing, and media. The distributed edge will emerge as a control point for AI due to its physical proximity to customers." — Ghassan Abdo, research VP, Worldwide Telecom, Virtualization, and CDN, IDC

BMC's July Release Lays the Foundation for Agentic AI with Governed MCP Access

Matthew Flug, Jim Mercer — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

BMC Software's July 2026 release establishes a governed foundation that prepares organizations for future agentic capabilities by connecting the Control-M and BMC AMI portfolios to live operational data as Model Context Protocol (MCP) clients. By making governance, visibility, and auditability preconditions for how agents will come to access production systems, the release lays the groundwork for control for BMC's stated goal of governed, agentic mainframe operations, an end state the company is building toward.

New Production Presses Steal the Show at thINK 2026

Tim Greene — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

New high-speed platforms stole the show at this year's thINK Ahead Canon inkjet users event. Canon unveiled the new varioPRESS iV7, the new varioPRINT iX1700, and the new Canon Colorado XL large format UVGel printers.

Market Forecast: Worldwide Workstation Forecast Update, 2026–2030 — 1Q26

Linn Huang — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation provides the five-year forecast update for the workstation market and delivers insights into the drivers and inhibitors of growth.

“Traditionally propelled by compute-intensive workloads like content creation, engineering, and scientific research, the workstation market is about to enter a new stage as a critical cog in the growing AI machinery.” — Linn Huang, research vice president, Devices and Displays, IDC.

Oracle Q4 FY2026 Earnings: Datacenters Coming Online at a Rapid Pace as Strong Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Demand Elevates Capital Requirements

Tapan Patel, Dave McCarthy, Devin Pratt, Mickey North Rizza, Eric Newmark — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Oracle’s FY4Q26 results reflect broad-based cloud execution across infrastructure, database, and applications. Total revenue reached $19.2 billion, while total cloud revenue was $9.9 billion, including $5.8 billion from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (IaaS) and $4.1 billion from cloud applications (SaaS). Cloud database services were highlighted as a key growth driver within this mix. Remaining performance obligations rose to $638 billion, largely reflecting multiyear AI infrastructure commitments that will convert as Oracle delivers capacity and services over time. These commitments sit alongside a sizable AI datacenter expansion program and associated funding plans, increasing the importance of disciplined capital deployment and the timely build‑out of new facilities.

Tanium Achieves ENS Alta Certification, Unlocking Spain's Most Sensitive Public Sector and Critical Infrastructure Markets for the Autonomous IT Platform

Philip D. Harris, CISSP, CCSK — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Tanium has achieved ENS Alta certification for its SaaS solution, Tanium Cloud, making the Autonomous IT Platform the first independently validated at the highest tier of Spain's Esquema Nacional de Seguridad framework by the Centro Criptológico Nacional. ENS Alta governs access to Spain's most sensitive public sector environments — including central government ministries, autonomous communities, critical infrastructure operators, and essential service organizations — and achieving it positions Tanium to directly serve a market segment where independent CCN validation is a prerequisite rather than a preference. IDC views this certification as a strategically significant market access event for Tanium in Southern Europe, arriving at a moment when the transposition of NIS2 and the entry into force of DORA are expanding the population of Spanish organizations treating ENS Alta–level controls as a vendor selection benchmark — creating an accelerating commercial opportunity for the only autonomous IT platform validated at this level.

Three Things to Get Right for Flexible Consumption and Pay-Per-Use Offerings

Lara Greden — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note sets out the three things technology and equipment providers must get right to make flexible consumption and pay-per-use offerings profitable and sustainable: who services the asset, moving customers past the ownership mindset, and treating reverse logistics as a joint venture. It argues that a disciplined focus on outcomes (i.e., clear consumption metrics, clear ROI, and clear customer satisfaction) is what separates offerings that scale from those that erode margin, and turns consumption into a durable edge for providers and a step forward on sustainability.

"Flexible consumption, pay-per-use delivers value only when three things are in place: who services the asset, the customer's mindset about ownership, and reverse logistics. Get those right, and consumption becomes a durable source of profit and sustainability progress." — Lara Greden, senior research director, Networking and Infrastructure Services, Enterprise Infrastructure, IDC

Worldwide DDI Market Share, 2025; Growth Driven by Cloud, Security, and AI

Brandon Butler — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This Market Presentation provides market shares for the worldwide DDI (DNS, DHCP, and IPMA) market for 2025.

“Once siloed and underleveraged, DDI is now emerging as a cornerstone of enterprise network visibility and control in the distributed AI era. As organizations navigate zero trust architectures, multi-cloud complexity, and an explosion of AI-driven endpoints, the ability to manage and extract intelligence from DNS, DHCP, and IP address data has never been more business critical.” — Senior Research Manager Brandon Butler, Network Infrastructure and Services, IDC.

From Code to Biology: The Selective Capability Leap of Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5

Arnal Dayaratna — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 on June 9, 2026, as two deployments of the same underlying model. Fable 5 is generally available, while Mythos 5 is initially restricted to vetted cybersecurity and critical infrastructure partners. The primary dimension of the model's innovation, and the strongest evidence that it represents a step change in capability, is its performance in software engineering. Fable 5 outperformed Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 on SWE-Bench Pro and FrontierCode Diamond. The benchmark results were reinforced by Stripe's report that Fable 5 completed a 50-million-line Ruby code-base migration in one day, work the company estimated would otherwise require a full engineering team more than two months. The release was interrupted three days later by a U.S. export control directive; the Department of Commerce lifted the controls on June 30, and Anthropic restored access on July 1.