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Apple's New Watch and AirPods: Same Looks, But Packed With AI Advances

Ramon T. Llamas — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Enterprise IT highlights from Apple's September launch event: a foldable iPhone, and the official release of Apple's new device management framework

Phil Hochmuth — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

IDC Market Glance: AI Infrastructure Ecosystem, 2026

Mary Johnston Turner — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Glance presents a current-state view of the worldwide AI infrastructure ecosystem spanning the infrastructure hardware, software, components and services vendors that enable AI workloads for model training, inference, and agentic workflows. The ecosystem is organized into five segments: AI Cloud Services, Non-Cloud Service Providers, Core AI Infrastructure Providers, AI Infrastructure Software, and AI-Ready Components. Each segment is further divided into sub-segments that group the representative vendors competing and collaborating to support hyperscalers, specialized clouds, enterprise buyers, and other service providers.

As AI workloads move into production at scale, infrastructure represents one of the largest cost elements underpinning AI ROI and total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis. Enterprise buyers increasingly expect to rely on a broad ecosystem of interoperable on-premises and public cloud infrastructure solutions supported by open standards and agentic AI operational controls.

Market Analysis Perspective: Worldwide Enterprise Network Consulting and Integration Services, 2026

Leslie Rosenberg — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides insight into the current and future state of the worldwide enterprise network consulting and integration services (NCIS) market. It includes an overview of the current market landscape, a technology buyer perspective, a market outlook, and IDC's advice for technology suppliers/service providers.

"The enterprise network will continue to rise in importance as high-speed, low-latency performance becomes a requirement for success in the agentic AI era. These demands, coupled with increased network complexity and skill scarcity, require that organizations leverage resources from their NCIS partners to accelerate successful network initiatives," said Leslie Rosenberg, research vice president, Network Life-Cycle and Infrastructure Services at IDC.

Market Forecast: Worldwide and U.S. Managed Print and Document Services and Basic Print Services Forecast, 2026–2030

Robert Palmer — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation provides the five-year forecast for the managed print and document services and basic print services market and delivers insights into the drivers and inhibitors of growth.

"Ongoing economic and geopolitical uncertainty continues to weigh on IT budgets and dampen growth across the managed print and document services market. Yet this same pressure is pushing businesses to modernize print environments, adopt AI-driven capabilities, and embrace the emerging AI MFP. These investments will help stabilize the market as organizations balance cost discipline with long-term efficiency gains." — Robert Palmer, research vice president, Imaging, Printing, and Document Solutions, IDC

Telcos Are Quietly Becoming Edge AI's Default Channel with Salam-Dell MoU as the Latest Proof

Olga Yashkova — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Salam and Dell Technologies signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at LEAP 2026 to bring Dell's edge AI and cloud infrastructure into Salam's enterprise and government portfolio on a consumption-based model, one instance of a broader global pattern IDC has tracked across Europe, North America, and Asia/Pacific over the past 18 months, in which national and regional telcos are becoming the default delivery channel for enterprise edge AI ahead of hardware OEMs and hyperscalers selling direct, wherever they combine local infrastructure, an established billing relationship, and a data residency compliant regulatory license. IDC expects telco-vendor bundling to keep accelerating over the next 12 to 24 months, as data sovereignty requirements and consumption-based economics make telco-delivered edge AI a credible alternative to direct hyperscaler or OEM contracts and the default global edge AI go-to-market motion through 2027.

Broadcom Consolidates Its AI Portfolio Under VMware Private AI Cloud

Matthew Flug — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Broadcom's announcements at VMware Explore 2026 center on consolidating the company's AI portfolio under a single Private AI Cloud banner. The company intends to move what agentic workloads require in production, including agent containment, credential isolation, and gateway-level governance, from custom engineering to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) platform services, positioning the private cloud as a viable destination for AI workloads.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Managed Edge Services 2026 Vendor Assessment

Ghassan Abdo — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides a vendor assessment of the worldwide managed edge services market using the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment evaluates eight vendors — Akamai, Cloudflare, Comcast, Fastly, Lumen, Tata Communications, Telefónica, and Tencent Cloud — across a comprehensive set of capability and strategy criteria spanning platform architecture, AI and compute readiness, security integration, pricing model, customer service delivery, vertical alignment, and go-to-market strategy.

The managed edge services market is at a strategic inflection point. What began as a market defined by content delivery performance and network proximity has evolved into a critical infrastructure category encompassing distributed AI inference, data sovereignty, application modernization, and autonomous compute governance. Enterprise demand is being reshaped by three converging imperatives: the economics of AI inference, which favor distributed edge execution over centralized cloud at scale; the tightening of data sovereignty and regulatory compliance requirements across major markets; and the accelerating cost and complexity of hyperscaler-dependent architectures, which are driving enterprises to seek more predictable, sovereign, and operationally accountable infrastructure models.

IDC's assessment finds that the vendors best positioned in this market are those that have made the architectural transition from their legacy infrastructure category — whether CDN, telecom network, or enterprise IT — toward platforms purpose built for the converged requirements of AI inference, security, programmability, distributed life-cycle management, and regulatory compliance. Competitive differentiation in this market is increasingly defined not by any single capability dimension but by the depth of platform integration across these requirements, the operational model flexibility offered to enterprise buyers, and the credibility of the vendor's innovation trajectory as the market continues to evolve rapidly toward agentic AI infrastructure, edge federation, and mobility-aware compute.

"The managed edge market has passed its inflection point. AI inference, data sovereignty, and the rising cost of centralized cloud are not future trends — they are active procurement drivers reshaping enterprise infrastructure decisions today. The vendors that will define this market over the next five years are those building platforms where security, compute, networking, and AI are not integrated as an afterthought but designed as a single architectural fabric from the ground up. For enterprise buyers, the question is no longer whether to invest in managed edge — it is which architecture, which operational model, and which vendor partner is best positioned to carry them through a period of rapid and consequential change in how and where compute happens," says Ghassan Abdo, research VP, Worldwide Telecom, IDC.

Market Share: Japan Networks Shares, 2025

Kenichi Kusano — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study analyzes vendor shares and trends in 2025 in the overall Japan network equipment market by product segment, which includes Ethernet switches, routers, and enterprise wireless LAN equipment, and by user segment. In 2025, the market achieved significant growth, driven by strong demand for Ethernet switches in AI datacenters. Additionally, contributing factors to this strong performance include stable investment in enterprise branch networks and recovering demand across telecommunications carriers' transport networks, not limited to datacenters alone.

"Network equipment vendors must support user companies that are being urgently required to undergo rapid and fundamental changes toward the post-Mythos era. The first step is to make resource visibility, such as software versions and applied patches, and easy bulk patch application capabilities available to all users. Building upon this, other vendors should also consider runtime protection functions, such as Live Protect announced by Cisco Systems, which provide protection until permanent patches can be applied," says Kenichi Kusano, senior research director, Network & Security, IDC Japan.

This is the English translation of the Japanese document IDC #JPJ53502626.

市场预测：中国AI一体机市场预测，2026—2030

Yunlong Du — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本IDC研究提供了AI一体机市场的五年预测，并就市场增长的驱动因素与阻碍因素进行了深入分析。

本IDC市场预测对AI一体机在中国市场的发展进行了深入调研，包括行业用户在选择产品的时候考虑的维度，实际落地的时候面临的挑战以及当下环境的市场机遇等。IDC希望通过本次报告为广大企业在市场定位和增强市场竞争力等方面提供建议和参考。

IDC 中国AI基础架构市场分析师杜昀龙表示：”中国AI一体机市场正由试点走向规模化落地，政企、金融、能源、制造成为核心采购方。出于数据安全与使用成本考量，本地私有化训推一体机需求快速提升。但市场结构性差异明显，大型客户订单集中，中小企业渗透率偏低，部分项目重硬件采购、轻业务落地，算力实际利用率有待提高。未来，市场将保持较快增长，推理一体机占比持续走高。具备软硬件协同与场景落地能力的厂商将持续受益，单纯硬件销售模式承压，轻量化定制一体机、云边协同产品将成为新的增长方向。”