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IDC Survey: Sustainable AI Infrastructure Trends, 2026 — EMEA

Katharina Grimme — Thu, 21 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey examines how organizations across EMEA are navigating the intersection of AI and sustainability, drawing on responses from 606 organizations with 500 or more employees across diverse industries. The findings reveal that AI has moved firmly from pilot to pillar: a growing majority now consider AI central to their sustainable transformation agenda, with predictive AI leading adoption and agentic AI emerging as a high-potential next wave. However, scale brings complexity — organizations face growing challenges in aligning financial and ESG ROI, validating vendor sustainability claims, and managing AI’s environmental footprint. Meanwhile, data security and privacy have nearly doubled in prominence as concerns since 2024.

On the vendor side, buyer expectations have sharpened considerably. Responsible AI performance, proven capability, and ecosystem partner strength now outweigh price and legacy relationships in procurement decisions, and buyers consistently prefer KPI-based sustainability disclosures over qualitative narratives. The survey concludes that EMEA has entered an execution phase for sustainable AI, one in which competitive advantage for technology suppliers will increasingly depend on delivering integrated, scalable solutions with credible, outcome-linked proof of sustainability performance.

IDC Market Glance: Environmental Health and Safety Software, 2Q26

Amy Cravens — Wed, 20 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Glance provides an initial overview of the environmental, health, and safety (EHS), sustainability, and operational risk software ecosystem. These solutions extend traditional compliance and safety systems by unifying operational workflows, regulatory management, and performance tracking to manage risks across enterprise, industrial, and global environments. The ecosystem spans key domains, including environmental permits and compliance management, health and safety management, incident management, contractor safety, process safety management, product stewardship, chemical stewardship, Environmental Product Declaration (EPD)/Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)/Digital Product Passport (DPP) management, and quality management, as well as related markets including ESG/sustainability, energy management, and operational risk.

These platforms collect and integrate data from incident reporting systems, compliance processes, environmental monitoring activities, product and chemical records, energy systems, and enterprise applications to identify risks related to workplace safety, environmental compliance, product obligations, and operational disruptions. By applying workflow automation, centralized data management, and performance tracking, they support incident investigations, regulatory reporting, audits, risk assessments, and corrective actions while improving compliance and operational visibility.

Readers can use this Market Glance to identify relevant solution categories, understand vendor positioning, and evaluate how different platforms address evolving regulatory and operational requirements. It also serves as a foundation for comparing technologies, identifying gaps in current systems, and guiding investment decisions across EHS, sustainability, and risk management initiatives.

Red Hat Summit 2026: Uniting the Enterprise AI Stack from Infrastructure to Agents

Jim Mercer — Wed, 20 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Red Hat Summit 2026, held in Atlanta, May 12–13, delivered a collection of announcements primarily focused on delivering a stack for running enterprise AI. The company used the event to assert its role as the open platform standard for the agentic AI era, much like it positioned itself during past Linux and Kubernetes technology cycles. Key themes included the general availability (GA) and advancement of Red Hat AI 3.4, the deepening of the NVIDIA partnership, a sweeping set of agent governance capabilities, OpenShift virtualization momentum, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform as the trusted AI execution layer, a new RHEL Long Life add-on, hardened images, and an assortment of digital sovereignty announcements. Altogether, the event made the case that Red Hat is not merely responding to AI's rise but actively engineering the enterprise foundation upon which it will run.

Worldwide Semiconductor Manufacturing Services — Foundry Market Shares, 2025: Vendor Ranking and Insights, With a Focus on Capacity, Tech Nodes, and Utilization Rates

Galen Zeng — Wed, 20 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study presents the market shares of worldwide foundry vendors and analyzes the revenue, production capacity, capacity utilization, and process technology of major vendors to gain insight into future development trends.

"The most striking themes of the 2025 foundry market are TSMC's unprecedented strengthening of its dominance and the reversal of supply‑demand dynamics in the mature node segment. Strong demand for AI chips has kept TSMC's advanced‑node orders full. In contrast, the huge demand for power management chips in AI servers has collectively helped stabilize mature‑node foundry pricing starting from the second half of 2025," says Senior Research Manager Galen Zeng, IDC. "Looking ahead, with AI server demand spilling over into general‑purpose servers and both advanced and mature nodes gaining momentum, the foundry industry is expected to grow by 24.0% in 2026."

Cisco FY 3Q26: Record Revenue, AI Infrastructure Surge, and Campus Refresh Drive Double-Digit Growth

Chris Barnard, Brandon Butler — Tue, 19 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

On May 13, 2026, Cisco announced earnings for its fiscal third quarter of 2026, which generally coincided with the first calendar quarter of 2026. Cisco delivered a record fiscal third quarter, with double-digit top- and bottom-line growth that exceeded the high end of guidance, fueled by broad-based demand across AI infrastructure and campus networking.

Extreme Connect 2026: Extreme Networks Advances Its Enterprise Platform with AI, Security, and a Complete Wi-Fi 7 Portfolio

Brandon Butler, Mark Leary — Tue, 19 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

At Extreme Connect 2026, Extreme Networks unveiled a second generation of AI-powered networking capabilities under the Extreme Agent ONE brand, completed its three-tier Wi-Fi 7 access point portfolio, and introduced a range of software capabilities, from enhanced Third-Party Management capabilities to stronger integrated security features. The announcements reflect a company with genuine momentum — SaaS ARR growing 29% year over year and Platform ONE bookings ahead of expectations — that is executing a coherent platform strategy across AI and enterprise networking while competing for enterprise share against larger, entrenched rivals in Cisco and HPE/Juniper.

国内企業向けネットワーク機器市場予測、2026年～2030年

Kenichi Kusano — Tue, 19 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本調査レポートは、企業向けイーサネットスイッチ、企業向けルーター、企業向け無線LAN機器で構成される国内企業向けネットワーク機器市場に関して、2025年の実績に加えて2026年～2030年の市場予測と今後の展望を提供する。2025年は旺盛なAI（Artificial Intelligence）データセンター構築需要がイーサネットスイッチ市場の成長を牽引し、企業向けネットワーク機器市場全体の大幅な伸びにつながった。2026年以降も、AIデータセンターへの継続的な投資に加え、オフィス環境の最新化に合わせたネットワークアップデートやトラフィック増加に合わせたネットワークの高速化が、市場の安定した成長を支える。

「原材料費や人件費の高騰といった企業努力では対処が難しい要因もあり、ネットワーク機器の価格の引き上げは今後も避けては通れない。顧客側も、価格上昇基調に適応しつつあるが、価格上昇を顧客が抵抗なく受け入れると考えるのは誤りであり、価格上昇に見合った価値の向上をベンダーは積極的に提供しなければならない。クラウド管理型ネットワークソリューションの無償提供範囲の拡大や、カスタマーサクセス部門による新たな活用方法の提案を進め、運用管理の効率化やネットワーク品質の最適化といった価値をもたらす取り組みを強化すべきである」と、IDC Japan、Network & Securityのシニアリサーチディレクターである草野賢一は述べている。

HP Imagine 2026: Going All in on Edge AI to Drive the Future of Work

Robert Palmer — Mon, 18 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Perspective focuses primarily on the announcements and activities from the HP Imagine 2026 event that relate more closely to HP Inc.'s printing and imaging business. HP Imagine 2026 highlighted HP Inc.'s continued focus on edge AI: unveiling new AI-powered devices, security innovations, and workflow solutions aimed at transforming the future of work. Central to this vision are HP IQ, an AI orchestration layer, and advanced HP LaserJet devices with embedded AI and quantum-resistant security. The event underscored HP Inc.'s strategic shift from products and solutions to platforms and ecosystems designed to enable and empower employees within the evolving digital workplace.

"Edge AI is fundamentally changing how work gets done, and every endpoint is now a catalyst for workforce productivity," says Robert Palmer, research VP, IDC Imaging Domain. "In the office printing market, edge AI is poised to foster a wave of hardware innovation, with the AI MFP emerging as a key enabler for tomorrow's workplace."

IDC Survey: Survey Excerpt — Outsourced Mailroom Services Trends

Robert Palmer — Mon, 18 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey looks into a United States–based B2B survey of organizations to assess how enterprises structure, contract, and evaluate outsourced mailroom services programs, focusing specifically on organizations that engage third-party providers for mailroom management.

The survey assesses contractual ownership models spanning mailroom specialists and BPO providers, the predominance of managed print services as the primary procurement vehicle, and buyer governance expectations. It also evaluates reported business outcomes, highlighting that value extends beyond cost reduction to include data compliance, mailroom efficiency, customer communication, and technology currency.

In addition, the survey identifies the performance attributes most closely tied to buyer satisfaction, clarifying that visibility, promised savings delivery, and consistent SLA execution are the strongest drivers of positive vendor experience, and where suppliers can innovate to move providers from baseline execution to differentiated performance.

Lenovo Announces the ThinkStation P4 Workstation: A World First

Mohamed Hefny, Linn Huang — Mon, 18 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

On May 13, 2026, Lenovo announced the ThinkStation P4, the first workstation to combine the power efficiency of AMD Ryzen PRO 9000 CPUs with the extreme AI performance of NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000. The product is positioned at the nexus of performance and value.