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IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Datacenter Facilities Management Software 2026 Vendor Assessment

Luis Fernandes, Mary Johnston Turner — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study leverages the IDC MarketScape methodology to evaluate several major datacenter facilities management software providers worldwide. IDC identified a plethora of significant players in this market and analyzed their current offerings as well as planned updates.

"Gaps in monitoring, automation, and orchestration constitute a major hindrance in today's management of datacenter facilities," according to Luis Fernandes, senior research manager, Cloud and Datacenter Research at IDC. "By choosing a best-in-class software solution to manage their datacenter facilities, IT and OT managers are effectively choosing a path of less resistance, with fewer instances of unforeseen incidents which, in turn, lead to overall better human resource management, reduced total cost of ownership, and less unplanned downtime."

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Desktop Label Printers 2026 Vendor Assessment

Mitri Roufka, Tim Greene — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC MarketScape assesses the capabilities and strategies of 15 global vendors of desktop label printers. It also provides guidance to vendors and advice to companies considering the acquisition of such equipment, including the selection criteria they should consider and the vendors that fit their production printing needs best.

"Desktop label printers are evolving from simple output devices into critical infrastructure for digital traceability, compliance, logistics automation, and product branding across global industries. Future market leadership in desktop label printing will depend not only on hardware performance but also on vendors' ability to support evolving compliance, connectivity, automation, and customization requirements," says Mitri Roufka, program director, IDC Imaging, Printing, and Document Solutions team.

IDC Survey: Worldwide Commercial Devices, 2026 — On-Device AI

Linn Huang — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey presents the results from the AI section of IDC’s June 2026 Worldwide Commercial Devices Survey. IDC fielded the survey to 1,824 IT decision-makers across 17 countries spanning all major geographies to understand their device procurement, usage, and future purchasing intentions. Findings include:

AI adoption is reaching the mainstream, but on-device AI still trails overall AI usage by a large gap.
Organizations know what they want from on-device AI: innovation and personalization.
Agentic AI has near-universal appeal, but most want to evolve workflows rather than rebuild them.
OpenClaw has potential to disrupt; equal parts exciting and terrifying.

Cisco Extends Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA to Rack Scale, Trading Engineered Platform Control for Rapid Time to Market

Brent Ellis, Kuba Stolarski, Ashish Nadkarni, Matthew Eastwood — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Cisco's expansion of Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA to rack-scale infrastructure through a partnership with Supermicro gives enterprises another full-stack AI infrastructure option as the market shifts from large-scale training to AI inference and agentic implementation, which carry support and governance requirements that training clusters do not. The partnership blends Cisco's reputation as a reliable enterprise infrastructure provider, built on the company's engineered networking and compute portfolio, with Supermicro's speed to market as an ODM implementer of NVIDIA reference designs for AI-dense servers, as well as rack-scale solutions like NVL72; the adoption of Spectrum-X networking rather than in-house Cisco designs shows how the NVIDIA release cadence is resetting the pace of enterprise infrastructure deployments and engineering.

IDC Survey: 2026 Worldwide Commercial Devices — Computer Fleet

Linn Huang — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

In June 2026, IDC fielded a survey to 1,824 IT decision-makers across 17 countries spanning all major geographies to understand their device procurement, usage, and future purchasing intentions.

This IDC Survey document presents the results from the computer fleet section of the survey. Highlights include:

IT budgets are expanding, but memory-driven cost inflation threatens to erase gains.
The Windows 10 migration trail defines the near-term PC refresh opportunity still.
Mac continues to gain momentum.
Desktops persist for functional reasons, not legacy ones.

IDC Survey: AI MFP Survey Results — Customer Perception of AI MFP Features and Benefits

Robert Palmer — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey examines the results of IDC’s 2026 AI MFP Survey. IDC conducted a U.S.-based survey of business decision-makers to assess how organizations perceive, evaluate, and prioritize artificial intelligence capabilities in multifunction peripherals (MFPs) and document workflow environments.

The survey aimed at providing clarity on organizational interest in AI-enabled MFP features, perceptions of the business value AI can deliver across document-centric processes, purchasing considerations and pricing expectations for AI-enabled devices, and the factors influencing adoption.

This study explores customer perceptions of AI MFP features and benefits, looking at issues such as pricing receptivity, security and compliance, document-handling features, operational benefits, and potential impact on MFP fleet strategies.

IDC Survey: Role of Edge in Enterprise IoT in Canada, 2026

Nigel Wallis — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey presents the results from IDC’s 4Q25 Canada IT Decision Makers Survey, which explores the nature of Internet of Things (IoT) adoption by Canadian organizations of all sizes. This specific report in the IoT in Canada Survey series examines the adoption of and drivers behind using edge computing in enterprise IoT deployments. This study seeks to identify significant variations by buyer segment (whether size, industry, region, or growth) to assist technology vendors in developing a specific go-to-market plan for communications, marketing, and sales messages.

“Edge computing has reached mainstream adoption in Canadian IoT,” says Nigel Wallis, research VP, IDC Insights. “Half of the Canadian organizations have already deployed edge computing for at least one IoT project, and nearly all of the rest have a firm plan to follow. Only a small single-digit share reported no plans to adopt, showing edge has cleared the debate over whether it belongs in mainstream IoT architecture.”

Market Forecast: U.S. Laser A3/A4 MFP Forecast, 2026–2030

Geoffrey Wilbur — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides the five-year forecast for the U.S. laser A3/A4 MFP market. In the U.S. laser MFP market, a weak first half of 2025 for A4 devices allowed A3 to gain share in 2025, despite a weak year for A3 as well. However, in the higher-speed bands, A4 continued to gain market share from A3. In the forecast period, the long-term trend toward A4 will continue. In addition, the shift from monochrome to color is expected to continue. Therefore, over the forecast period, A4 color laser MFPs offer the greatest opportunity for growth.

"The U.S. laser MFP market keeps contracting, but vendors can still find opportunities if they pay attention to the product mix, as the market continues its long-term trend from monochrome to color and from A3 to A4. Therefore, color A4 is the one place vendors can still find growth." — Geoffrey Wilbur, research manager, Imaging, Printing and Document Solutions at IDC

Market Forecast: Worldwide Public Cloud IaaS Networking Forecast, 2026–2030

Taranvir Singh — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Forecast provides the five-year forecast for the public cloud IaaS (PCIaaS) networking market and delivers insights into its drivers and inhibitors of growth. This presentation also forecasts and analyzes key trends impacting the worldwide market for public cloud IaaS networking for the 2026–2030 period.

"Networking is now a focus area of enterprise AI infrastructure spending. Enterprises are turning to IaaS network services for their cloud connectivity, WAN, and application networking requirements and getting the benefits of simplicity, security, and governance at scale in return. IDC expects the PCIaaS networking market to grow significantly and double in revenue by 2030," said Taranvir Singh, research manager, network infrastructure and services, IDC.

Market Forecast: Worldwide Server DRAM DIMM by Workload Forecast Update, 2026–2030

Soo Kyoum Kim — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation provides the five-year forecast for the server DRAM DIMM market and delivers insights into the drivers and inhibitors of growth.

The DRAM industry dynamics and the server workload changes are aggregated, analyzed, and applied to this long-term DIMM forecast in terms of units and DRAM content per DIMM.

"Continuing AI investment will make the server DIMM market thrive and lead double-digits growth in the forecast period. All density DIMMs will grow. LPDRAM-based SOCAMM, 32Gb-based DIMM, upcoming DDR6 penetration, and CXL introduction will help the market grow," says Soo Kyoum Kim, associate program vice president, DRAM and NAND Memory, Enabling Technologies and Semiconductors, IDC.