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Comcast Business 2026 Analyst Event Highlights Accelerated AI Driven Focus to Bolster Enterprise Growth

Paul Hughes, Ghassan Abdo, Jitesh Bhayani, Peter Chahal, Jason Leigh — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Comcast Business' 2026 Analyst event highlighted that the company is at a pivotal and transformational moment, where its infrastructure, AI capabilities and partner ecosystem products are now an integrated solution. This comes at a time when the enterprise digital transformation curve is peaking, and businesses are looking for a strategic partner that can manage the pace of change and support long term business outcomes.

Figma's Expansion Strategy in Japan: Strengthening Its Positioning as an AI-Powered Platform and Expanding Value Creation Support

Tatsuhiro Soga — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This Market Note examines the latest developments in and strategy behind Figma's expansion in the Japan market as the company broadens its product portfolio for the AI era. Figma, based in California, provides a collaborative design and product development platform.

As AI-enabled development support tools and vibe coding become more widespread, efficiency is improving in prototyping and the early stages of application development. At the same time, SaaS vendors are expected to face growing pressure to move beyond functionality alone and instead leverage the best practices and operational knowledge they have accumulated through customer engagement to help customers create business value. In this environment, "Figma's advisory services will increasingly need the capability to identify and articulate concrete value-creation opportunities based on each customer's workflows, product development processes, and existing design assets," says Tatsuhiro Soga, research analyst, Software, Services, and IT Spending, IDC Japan.

This is the English translation of the Japanese document (IDC #JPJ54302326).

From Design Tool to AI Platform: Key Takeaways from Canva Create 2026

Roger Beharry Lall — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Carbon Accounting and Management Applications 2026 Vendor Assessment

Amy Cravens — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study evaluates vendors in the rapidly evolving carbon management software market. Driven by regulatory mandates and stakeholder expectations, carbon management has become a core enterprise function, shifting from basic emissions reporting to integrated, decision-oriented platforms. The document highlights vendor strengths, challenges, and strategic differentiators, providing technology buyers with guidance on selecting solutions that align with compliance, operational integration, and decarbonization objectives.

"Carbon management is no longer a reporting exercise," said Amy Cravens, research manager, ESG and Sustainability Software at IDC. "It's the new foundation for enterprise strategy, risk, and value creation in a decarbonizing world."

IDC Survey: IDC's Cloud Data Logistics and Protection Survey, Executive Summary, Part 2 — Budgets, Containers, and Skills Gap

Johnny Yu — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey asked respondents who were familiar with their organizations' compute infrastructure to identify commonly adopted strategies and pain points surrounding various aspects of data infrastructure management and data protection.

The results of the survey are weighted by IT spending per country and divided into two documents. This is the second document, and it focuses on IT budgets for data protection, container data protection, and IT skills gap.

EMEA Enterprise Networking Market Shares, 2025: 3Q25 Update

Len Padilla — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation presents EMEA enterprise networking equipment vendor shares for the enterprise Ethernet switch, router, and wireless LAN segments for 3Q25.

“The EMEA enterprise network infrastructure market has returned to growth, with datacenter Ethernet switching driving the market as a result of AI initiatives. While networking for AI is a dominant force, wireless LAN revenues are also showing healthy growth, nearly returning to 2023 levels,” said Len Padilla, senior research director, European Networking and Life-Cycle Services.

IDC’s Worldwide Enterprise Network Infrastructure Taxonomy, 2026

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC’s enterprise network infrastructure (ENI) taxonomy. It serves as the foundation for classification, segmentation, and sizing of the worldwide enterprise network infrastructure and services market. The taxonomy encompasses the products, technologies, and services used to build, operate, and support enterprise and service provider networks across key domains, including datacenter, campus, branch, edge, and cloud environments.

The ENI taxonomy organizes the market into four primary segments — network hardware/equipment, network software, network cloud services, and network life-cycle services — each further divided into secondary markets covering key technologies such as switching, routing and SD-WAN, WLAN, network management software, network cloud services, and network life-cycle services.

This structure provides a comprehensive framework for analyzing how networks are designed, deployed, managed, and consumed, while underpinning IDC’s network infrastructure research and data products and enabling consistent market definitions, vendor performance analysis, and tracking of technology adoption and global market trends.

“IDC’s enterprise network infrastructure taxonomy provides a comprehensive framework for understanding how modern networks are evolving across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. As enterprises increasingly prioritize automation, security, and cloud-driven architectures, this taxonomy serves as the foundation for tracking market transformation and vendor innovation across the networking ecosystem,” states Brandon Butler, senior research manager, Network Infrastructure and Services at IDC.

Worldwide Server GPU Market Shares and Market Forecast, 4Q25 Update

Brandon Hoff, Jim Hines — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Pivot Table provides the worldwide market and vendor share results for server discrete graphics processing unit (GPU) vendors for the fourth calendar quarter of 2025.

The following data is provided quarterly starting from 1Q16:

Market size in units, including forecast
Vendor shares in units
Market size in revenue, including forecast
Vendor shares in revenue

Segments include:

Server graphics processing unit
Custom ASICs used for accelerated compute (XPU)
Merchant silicon for accelerated compute (ASSP)
FPGAs used for accelerated compute (FPGA)
CPUs used for AI algorithms without acceleration (CPU)

DRAM Supply Crisis: What Could It Mean for the Printer/MFP Market?

Jacqui Hendriks, Robert Palmer, Phil Sargeant — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note covers the rapid shift of DRAM manufacturing toward high-bandwidth memory, causing severe shortages and price spikes in legacy DRAM and directly impacting printer and MFP OEMs. Print hardware vendors face rising costs, supply disruptions, and operational complexity. These challenges are expected to persist through 2027, requiring agile procurement and supply chain resilience to mitigate ongoing risk.

IDC Survey Spotlight: What Are the Key Reasons for Organizations to Use or Plan to Use Disaggregated Storage Systems

Rajiv Ranjan — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC survey spotlight discusses the key reasons organizations worldwide are adopting disaggregated storage. The spotlight highlights the key reasons and provides valuable insights into the topics.