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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 15^th 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 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.

Rackspace and AMD Partner to Create an Enterprise AI Cloud

Rob Tiffany — Thu, 07 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

The Rackspace-AMD MOU represents a significant move to establish a new category of governed, fully managed enterprise AI infrastructure by embedding AMD Instinct GPUs and EPYC CPUs directly into Rackspace's operated stack, owning accountability from silicon to outcomes. This partnership directly addresses the demand among regulated enterprises for a single, trusted operator of production AI that combines dedicated, accelerated compute with governance, sovereignty, and compliance built in from the ground up.

LogicGate Introduces Config Newton: The First Agentic GRC Engineer

Philip D. Harris, CISSP, CCSK — Wed, 06 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Link examines the early market impact of LogicGate’s announcement of a new AI capability, Config Newton, an Agentic GRC Engineer. Config Newton is designed to reduce the “busy work”, perform the “heavy lifting”, and “augment the performance” of GRC leaders and analysts. The availability of Config Newton positions LogicGate’s GRC platform to bring greater contextual clarity enabling informed decisions, implementing LogicGate best practices, and accelerating time-to-value.

Microsoft Customer Insights and Agent 365: An Emerging Architecture for Agentic Mesh for CX

Gerry Murray — Wed, 06 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Microsoft moved Conversational Journeys from public preview to general availability (GA) with SMS support on April 27, 2026. Then on May 1, 2026, it brought Microsoft Agent 365 to general availability as the enterprise control plane for observing, governing, and securing all AI agents across an organization. Together, these two releases move Microsoft's agent strategy from "build and deploy" to "build, deploy, and manage at scale."

Oracle Applications Analyst Summit 2026: Hitting it of the Park with Agentic Applications

Mickey North Rizza — Wed, 06 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Oracle held its Applications Analyst Summit 2026 April 28^th at Oracle Park in San Fracisco. While the San Francisco Giants were away, the technology analysts took over learning more about Agentic Applications. Oracle unveiled its next step in its AI in Fusion Applications moving from hundreds of Oracle-built AI agents, the AI Agents Studio for customer and partner-built AI agents, AI workflows and the AI Agent Marketplace with pre-built AI Agents to Agentic Applications.

Oracle’s movement to Agentic Applications is the natural next step for Oracle beyond embedding AI in the standard workflows. The AI Agents are driven by outcomes but based on specific business objectives such as close the books faster or reduce attrition that have dynamic workflows that can adjust to changing conditions to solve problems and achieve objectives. The Agentic Applications are built for enterprise execution within data governance, security, and approval frameworks, along with full auditability. The Agentic Applications are powered by teams of specialized agents that continuously advance work based on the organization’s objectives, such as ledger agent and consolidation agent that work towards accounting model objectives.

These new forward-looking Agentic Applications bring about a continuous review, an ability for the employee to review what is going on and look at areas that may need additional help, changes, or updates. Employees can quickly drill in, review and update as needed right then or make changes later on as it relates to their organizational standard operating procedures and policies. Oracle just recently introduced 22 new Fusion Agentic Applications, a part of Fusion Applications, including a few that captured my attention around Maintenance Operations Workspace, Design-to-Source Workspace, and Workforce Operations Command Center, that bring more business information across more functions while also bringing in more workflows beyond just task-based Agents.

While these new Agentic Applications are critical for creating faster decisions and more economic value, they are also creating the pathway towards the autonomous organization. The organization can use the Agentic Applications as little or as much as possible, which creates less autonomy with humans in the loop where the agent assists in tasks and workflows while the human decides. For organizations that need to understand AI better and build trust it does so with low risk. While the human in the loop brings out much it also has immediate productivity gains. The middle of the road towards autonomous is more about the human in the lead with Agents handling routine work and the human handling the exceptions while scaling operations quickly. As organizations gain trust and want to adopt more with the Agent driving the processes with the human owning the outcome, they move towards autonomous execution. Autonomous execution leads to end-to-end execution with policy, human only for true exceptions, continuous real-time optimization and maximum capacity and speed which is really about business transformation.

Oracle’s customers in attendance had much to say about the Agentic Applications though all was under NDA. The great news is everyone is working on AI and finding value in Oracle’s approach overall. And many are finding new methods of working, how to prioritize the use cases for adoption, and how to calculate their ROI (throughput, productivity, efficiency, etc.)

Rubrik: Identity Security Beyond Access — The Recovery Problem

Emanuel Figueroa — Wed, 06 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Vendor Profile examines how Rubrik is redefining identity security through recovery-first design, positioning identity systems as core cyber‑resilience infrastructure rather than purely preventive controls.

Sustainable IT Infrastructure Strategies in Europe for Digitally Responsible Enterprises

Cristiano Quattrini, Margot Juros — Wed, 06 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective examines how European enterprises are redefining IT infrastructure strategies to align digital transformation with sustainability objectives. As regulatory pressure, energy constraints, and AI-driven demand increase, retailers must integrate energy efficiency, decarbonization, and circularity into infrastructure design. Sustainable IT is emerging as a critical enabler of resilience, compliance, and long-term business value.

"Sustainable IT infrastructure is no longer a technical optimization but a strategic imperative in Europe, where regulatory pressure, energy constraints, and AI-driven demand are converging. Retailers that embed sustainability into infrastructure design today will be better positioned to balance performance, cost, and environmental responsibility while maintaining long-term competitiveness." — Cristiano Quattrini, senior associate advisor, IDC Retail Insights

The Enterprise Reality Check for AI Adoption: Moving Beyond Experimentation to Sustainable Scale

Jennifer Thomson — Wed, 06 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective draws on insights from in-depth conversations with CIOs, CTOs, and senior technology and business leaders across Europe. These discussions took place during IDC executive dinners and industry events in 2Q26, spanning a diverse range of sectors from financial services, manufacturing, and utilities to automotive, retail, and technology services. These conversations uncovered what is genuinely holding organizations back: data readiness, legacy systems, governance friction, and the human dimension of change. It also offers a practical framework for evaluating professional services partners as organizations look to move from pilot to production.

“Technology is no longer the barrier. Enterprise leaders across Europe highlight that AI ambition is high, but data foundations, governance structures, and organizational alignment have not kept pace. That gap is holding most organizations back, and closing it requires a very different kind of focus than most AI programs currently have,” said Jennifer Thomson, AVP, IDC Global Services Insights

Worldwide Server Market Summary and Outlook, 4Q25

Kuba Stolarski — Wed, 06 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation offers an overview of the worldwide server market and related trends and forecasts for the fourth quarter of 2025. Detailed results were released on March 12, 2026, in IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker and on March 19, 2026, in IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker Forecast. This presentation provides insights into the regional, vendor, and market-level performance as well as details on key developments and trends in the market, including accelerated servers (GPUs and other accelerators), offering advice to suppliers on how to navigate various issues present in the current market and developing over the next five years.