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Acumatica Summit 2026: Bringing to Life AI-powered ERP, Transformation, and Human Innovation for Real-world SMB Results

Mickey North Rizza — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Acumatica held its annual Acumatica Summit in Seattle, Washington January 25-28^th, 2026. The summit hosted more than 3,000 Acumatica community members, including customers, partners, analysts and media. The event focused on Small and Medium businesses (SMBs) in the manufacturing, retail, distribution, professional services, and construction industries.

How Do Cyberpreparedness and Response Challenges Impact Container Investment?

Ryan Caskey — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at the latest findings from IDC's Enterprise Infrastructure Pulse Survey — Cloud Data Logistics and Protection, in which individuals are asked to assess data infrastructure management and data protection strategies within their organization. The focus of this analysis is on container investment.

IDC FutureScape：全球IT行业2026年预测（中文版）

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

本IDC技术买家演示文档是IDC FutureScape: Worldwide IT Industry 2026 Predictions的中文版。报告提供了IDC对IT行业未来的十大预测。它为IT领导者及其团队提供了指导，助其预测并应对正在重塑其技术合作伙伴的重大发展趋势。

IDC全球研究副总裁Rick Villars表示：“未来几年，三大关键主题将主导IT行业的发展：推动AI智能体在企业范围内的爆发式持续扩张；应对由IT行业自身向代理式AI转型所引发的重大技术变革；提前布局快速成熟的量子计算、下一代连接技术与物理AI设备，以增强韧性与拓展市场边界。”

IDC's Worldwide Global StorageSphere Taxonomy, 2026

Adam Wright — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study defines and provides a framework for analyzing the installed base of storage capacity, the amount of the installed base of storage capacity that is utilized, and the portion of the installed base that is available for storing data for any given year.

"Storage economics are shifting as organizations balance performance, cost, resilience, and AI-enabled value," says Adam Wright, research manager for IDC's Global DataSphere and StorageSphere. "The 2026 Global StorageSphere taxonomy provides an outline to classify storage technologies and help decision-makers understand what drives capacity growth and where strategic investment is required."

Qubits26: D-Wave Enables Near-Term Quantum Value with a Path to Fault-Tolerant Systems

Heather West, PhD — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

At its annual Qubits26 conference, D-Wave Quantum outlined a significant expansion of its commercial quantum computing strategy. With the acquisition of Quantum Circuits, Inc., the company formally positioned itself as a dual-platform quantum computing vendor. Across hardware, software, and services, D-Wave emphasized that quantum computing is no longer confined to experimentation. Instead, the company pointed to measurable enterprise adoption, production deployments, and growing system and cloud revenues, reinforcing its message that quantum computing is delivering value today while laying the foundation for fault-tolerant, gate-based systems.

U.S. Mobile Augmented Reality Survey: Smartphones and Tablets

Ramon T. Llamas — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

IDC polled 932 IT decision-makers in 1Q25 about the use of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). In addition to other topics, we asked about their use of mobile AR applications on smartphones and tablets. Specifically, we inquired about what they used these tools for, what they hoped to gain, and how satisfied they were with the results. We were able to gather demographics about the users, including age, gender, what size company they worked for, and what industry they worked in.

“Mobile AR applications have made it possible for employees to use the hardware they already own for augmented reality,” said Ramon T. Llamas, research director with IDC's XR and Interactive 3D Software team. “Our survey participants cited multiple use cases for mobile AR, ranging from increased productivity and work efficiency to improved knowledge retention and saving time and money. Most have turned to third parties to develop their applications, with systems integrators, ISVs, and VARs designing the most popular options. High satisfaction scores with mobile AR applications indicate that these apps delivered as promised, helping customers realize productivity and efficiency gains.”

Will Supply Chain Complexity and Tariffs Spur Adoption of AI-Enabled Sustainability Tech?

Jordan K. Speer — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Spotlight looks at the number of retailers accelerating AI-driven sustainability solutions to combat supply chain disruptions and tariffs, examining how AI's power can simultaneously mitigate tariff and disruption costs, improve resilience, and achieve compliance to increasingly strict regulations.

re:Invent 2025 — AWS Bets Big on Agentic AI, Underscores Sovereignty, and Advances Quantum Innovation

Jebin George, Ranjit Rajan, Manish Ranjan, Harish Dunakhe — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study analyzes the key announcements from AWS re:Invent 2025 and presents insights from IDC analysts in the Middle East and Africa who attended the event. AWS reinforced its strategy to lead the next phase of cloud and AI adoption through agentic AI, vertically integrated AI infrastructure and platforms, partnership-driven ecosystems, and sovereign cloud. From a MEA perspective, these announcements signal accelerating demand for sovereign, partner-led cloud models, AI-enabled modernization, and scalable agentic architectures, with significant implications for cloud adoption, regulation, and competitive dynamics across the region.

How Important Is ESG/Sustainability for Enterprise Value Creation, and What Business Benefits Have EMEA Organizations Achieved?

Katharina Grimme — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes which aspects of enterprise value creation are considered the most relevant and to what extent EMEA companies have achieved or expect to achieve business benefits from sustainability initiatives. Achieving measurable business outcomes from sustainability initiatives is paramount for organizations.

Are companies in EMEA adopting liquid cooling in their datacenter facilities to support AI and GenAI workloads?

Andrew Buss, Luis Fernandes, Shahin Hashim — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight focuses on how AI and GenAI have become a prominent part of IT infrastructure plans for companies in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), and how that has changed over the past year. However, companies are still bound by the underlying datacenter facilities, and the adoption of liquid cooling is not among their highest priorities.

This report is based on IDC's EMEA 2025 GenAI Infrastructure Survey, conducted in 2025 among 1,000 organizations in the EMEA region. The survey spanned 16 countries in Western Europe; Central and Eastern Europe; and the Middle East, Türkiye, and Africa.