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Agents at the Gate: Zscaler Bets the Platform on Agentic AI Security at Zenith Live 2026

Frank Dickson — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Zscaler held its annual Zenith Live conference in Las Vegas from June 8-11, 2026, using the event as the backdrop for a coordinated set of product and partnership announcements centered on AI security and SASE. The company introduced new capabilities for securing AI agents and agentic workflows, expanded its Project AI-Guardian partner ecosystem to include major technology alliance partners, and unveiled significant extensions to its core Zero Trust SASE platform. Taken together, the announcements represent Zscaler's most explicit statement yet that it intends to extend its zero trust architecture into the emerging layer of autonomous AI systems, positioning the Zero Trust Exchange as the inspection and enforcement point for agent traffic alongside human users, devices, and workloads.

Broadcom Mainframe AR Forum 2026: AI on Mainframe's Terms

Adam Resnick — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

At its Mainframe Analyst Relations Forum, held June 8–10 in Boston, Broadcom presented an AI strategy centered on embedding AI capabilities directly into its existing mainframe application development and DevOps portfolio rather than building standalone AI products. New capabilities arrive inside the tools customers already use, under existing entitlements, through MCP-based connectivity across DevOps, Data Management, and AIOps value streams. This approach reflects the nature of the platform: A mainframe is built for deterministic, high-volume, and mission-critical execution at a quality and reliability bar that a more disruptive AI product strategy would put at risk. Broadcom is working to build a unified developer experience where mainframe development uses tools and workflows already familiar to developers coming from conventional enterprise environments. The company is making solid progress, though attracting developers to a platform underrepresented in developer culture is a challenge specific to the mainframe, and the broader pressure of measuring AI investment returns is one the whole industry is still working through.

IDC MaturityScape: Sustainable Transformation 1.0

Bjoern Stengel — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

"Sustainability maturity is now inseparable from business performance maturity. The organizations closing the performance gap are not doing so through reporting excellence or carbon offset programs alone — they are embedding AI across operations, supply chains, and product portfolios to make sustainability a continuous, self-optimizing capability. This IDC study gives buyers and vendors alike a shared language and a clear progression map for that journey." — Bjoern Stengel, Global Sustainability Research and Practice lead, IDC

IDC Survey Spotlight: Is the Sustainability Services Market One Size Fits All?

Dan Versace — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight dives deeper into where these markets exist and how service providers can more effectively interact with them. The market for sustainability and ESG services has matured significantly. This has driven the creation of submarkets in an effort to serve the diverse set of clients needing said services.

Microsoft Build 2026: The Agentic Platform Play That Puts the OS Back at the Center of the Stack

Jim Mercer — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Microsoft Build 2026 demonstrated the company's intention to embed agentic AI directly into the operating system, development toolchain, and enterprise security fabric as an interconnected whole. Announcements spanning Windows-native agent containment, on-device small language models, expanded Linux tooling, a new GitHub Copilot App, frontier model tuning, and purpose-built AI hardware collectively signal that Microsoft is no longer positioning Windows as a passive foundation for AI workloads but as an active participant in their governance, execution, and economics. For enterprise organizations navigating the transition from AI experimentation to production-scale agentic deployment, the Build 2026 announcements deserve evaluation. Whether it translates into preference shifts among developer segments that have long favored macOS and Linux will depend on the company's execution of these announcements over the next several cycles.

Orange Takes Full Ownership of MasOrange: Spain Cements Position as Orange Group's Strategic Second Pillar

Alejandro Cadenas — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

On June 8, 2026, Orange announced the completion of its acquisition of the remaining 50% stake in MasOrange held by Lorca, taking full ownership of Spain's leading telecommunications operator for €4.25 billion in cash. The transaction concludes a process initiated in December 2025 and elevates Spain to a fully consolidated, strategic position within Orange Group.

The Quantum-AI Convergence: Navigating the Next Era of Enterprise Compute

Heather West, PhD — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation addresses customer insights surrounding the integration of their organization's quantum and AI initiatives. Leveraging data from IDC's May 2026 Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey Wave 3, this presentation highlights current quantum computing adoption trends among enterprises, expectations for realizing business value using quantum computing, and the value expected from the integration of quantum and AI in the future.

中国以太网交换机市场概况，2025

Laura Chen — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本IDC研究报告以2025年的数据为基础，主要介绍全球及中国以太网交换机的市场规模与未来五年预测、市场竞争分析和行业分析，同时从数据中心、园区网络等不同维度对市场展开解读。报告显示，2025年中国以太网交换机市场规模为495.0亿元人民币，同比增长18.6%。数据中心交换机市场与园区交换机市场呈现明显分化走势，市场规模分别为310.1亿元人民币和184.8亿元人民币，同比增速分别为37.5%和-3.6%。预计未来五年，行业将以14.7%的年复合增长率增长，到2030年，以太网交换机市场规模将达到982.3亿元人民币。

AI Inferencing at the Edge — Start-Ups and Vendors to Watch for 2026

Nina Turner — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective profiles start-ups and established semiconductor vendors competing for AI inferencing workloads at the edge in 2026. The document covers 10 global start-ups spanning the United States, Israel, the Netherlands, South Korea, Canada, Taiwan, Japan, and Slovakia that have received funding or achieved meaningful commercial traction in the past 12 months, alongside 12 major established vendors.

“Edge AI inference has crossed the threshold from proof of concept to production. The companies that navigate 2026 well will be those that match silicon architecture to workload reality, prioritize software portability, and consider supply chain geography,” says Nina Turner, research director, Enabling Technologies: AI Edge Processor Architectures, IDC.

AI-Enabled Energy Management Trends, 2026

Bjoern Stengel — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Perspective examines the key trends shaping AI-enabled energy management in 2026. AI-enabled energy management has moved from a niche sustainability initiative to a mainstream enterprise deployment category. IDC's 2026 AI and Sustainability Survey finds that 29% of organizations now prioritize energy efficiency as a top ESG issue area being addressed through AI — up 52% over two years and the fastest-growing ESG priority tracked. Energy-focused buyers are disproportionately oriented toward operational transformation, prefer predictive and agentic AI, and expect measurable financial returns. Industry profiles in manufacturing, oil and gas, construction, logistics, and retail reveal distinct data challenges, AI technology preferences, and use case priorities. Vendors that lead with data integration, industry-specific expertise, and dual financial/compliance value framing are best positioned to capitalize on a market that is accelerating on multiple fronts simultaneously.

"Energy management is where sustainability stops being a reporting exercise and starts being a competitive differentiator. The organizations that are embedding AI into their energy operations today are not just reducing their carbon footprint; they are building a permanent cost advantage that will compound as energy prices rise and agentic AI capabilities mature. The question for vendors is not whether to build in this space, but how fast." — Bjoern Stengel, lead, Global Sustainability Research and Practice at IDC