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Apple Business comes not to bury the UEM market, but to elevate Apple device usage at work (particularly among SMBs)

Phil Hochmuth — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Google's Gemma 4 Brings On-Device AI into the Multimodel Architecture Conversation

Arnal Dayaratna — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Google's Gemma 4 extends open-weight AI further into the practical deployment environments where software is built and used. The family spans mobile, browser, desktop, wearable, and edge scenarios through smaller E2B and E4B variants and the LiteRT-LM runtime, while larger models are available on Google Cloud through Vertex AI and Google Kubernetes Engine. Multimodal and multistep AI behavior is becoming more portable across execution surfaces that were previously constrained by model size, latency, and hardware limits. Google is treating Gemma 4 less as a side release for the open model community and more as a distributed deployment layer spanning edge and cloud environments simultaneously.

RSAC 2026: Data Security Is a Top Priority for Agentic AI

Jennifer Glenn — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

At the RSAC Conference 2026, vendor marketing and news focused heavily on AI agent security — with data at the center. A major takeaway from this year's show is the growing interdependency of AI adoption and data security, particularly when it comes to AI agents. Most organizations not only need solid data security for successful AI but also require AI tools and agents to augment their teams for more effective data security. While AI agents were the dominant theme, conversations and vendor announcements were focused on the basics: build clean, secure data foundations; monitor and protect your sensitive information; and demonstrate proof of security and compliance.

RSAC Conference — Expanding the Role of SSE/SASE

Pete Finalle — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Security service edge (SSE) is rapidly expanding into a hybrid edge security architecture that no longer requires customers to send traffic to centralized control points in the cloud and can instead meet them where they are. This new approach provides flexibility, performance increases, cost savings, and new vantage points for visibility and inspection that can facilitate fast-paced architectural changes and a threat landscape that is growing in scale and sophistication.

Accenture 2Q FY26: Record Bookings and Continued Margin Expansion — Accelerating Agentic and Platform-Mediated Execution

Lars Goransson, Douglas Hayward — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

NVIDIA and Storage Partners Back New STX Reference Architecture to Accelerate Agentic AI

Carol Sliwa, Henry Arzumanian — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

At GTC 2026 in San Jose, NVIDIA spotlighted storage as a critical component of the infrastructure necessary to keep AI factories running at optimum performance with the launch of its BlueField-4 STX reference architecture. Major AI storage players confirmed their intention to codesign and support STX — which includes the previously announced Inference Context Memory Storage (CMX) platform to accelerate and scale agentic AI — starting in the second half of 2026. Many storage vendors also took the occasion to provide updates on their support for the NVIDIA AI Data Platform, a customizable reference design introduced at last year's GTC event, as well as the latest developments on their AI infrastructure.

Worldwide Semiconductor Advanced Packaging Forecast and Analysis, 2025–2030

Galen Zeng — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Forecast provides an analysis and forecast for the advanced packaging market from 2025 to 2030, covering revenue, technology developments, and the competitive landscape.

"Advanced packaging are advancing towards greater integration, with technologies such as CoWoS-S/R/L, SoIC, and System-on-Wafer playing pivotal roles in the AI era. In response to the demand for AI GPUs and AI ASICs, leading foundry TSMC is expanding its CoWoS capacity to 1.08 million wafers per year in 2026, a substantial 64.0% increase, with further expansion to 1.47 million wafers projected for 2027. Additionally, companies like ASE, KYEC, Amkor, and Intel are actively engaging in the supply chain to take on spillover orders. Looking ahead, with the increasing requirements of end-user applications for computing performance and power consumption efficiency, advanced packaging will play a more critical role in continuing to promote technological innovation and value creation in the semiconductors industry." — Senior Research Manager Galen Zeng, IDC

RSAC 2026: AI Agents Galore, a New SIEM Entrant, and Exposure Management Advances

Michelle Abraham — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

RSAC 2026 highlighted rapid expansion of AI agents in security operations, especially across SIEM platforms, where vendors emphasized agent-assisted investigation, triage, detection development, workflow automation, and response. AI-driven autonomous penetration testing also gained attention as a way to make testing more continuous and cost effective, potentially moving penetration testing (pen testing) further from a compliance exercise toward continuous exposure management.

Worldwide Memory Demand and Supply 4Q25–4Q26 and 2026–2030 Update

Soo Kyoum Kim — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Presentation provides the CY 4Q25 memory (dynamic random-access memory [DRAM] and not AND [NAND]) vendor share results and forecasts for both the short-term (4Q25–4Q26) and the long-term (2025–2030) worldwide memory markets. The presentation includes:

Memory market revenue share
Major application system forecast
Memory demand bit growth by application
Memory interface forecast
Memory capacity forecast
Memory market scenario
Memory pricing forecast
Memory revenue forecast
Memory technology road map

EMEA Enterprise Network Infrastructure Forecast Update, 2025–2029: 3Q25

Len Padilla — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation provides an updated five-year forecast for the EMEA enterprise network infrastructure market and delivers insight into the drivers and inhibitors of growth.

"The EMEA enterprise networking infrastructure market is experiencing accelerated growth, fueled by surging demand for high-performance datacenter Ethernet switching as organizations scale AI workloads. This rapid adoption of advanced networking for AI technologies underscores a fundamental shift toward AI-enabled workloads, positioning the region for sustained innovation and strategic expansion through 2029," said Len Padilla, senior research director, Network Infrastructures and Services.