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IDC Survey: AI for Sustainability: Retail Findings and Implications — Retail Insights from IDC’s 2026 Syndicated Survey

Jordan K. Speer — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation discusses how retailers are rapidly scaling AI-driven sustainability initiatives, as most view AI as essential to their transformation. IDC’s latest survey reveals how retailers are prioritizing investments, tackling data and supply chain challenges, and leveraging advanced AI technologies to drive operational efficiency and meet evolving regulatory demands.

IDC Survey: Mailroom Survey: Digital Mailroom Trends

Robert Palmer — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey examines the results of specific data from IDC’s 2025 Mailroom Management and Services Survey. IDC conducted a U.S.-based survey with companies to evaluate trends in mailroom management and operations. The goal of the survey was to understand current conditions and challenges in mailroom operations, adoption trends around mailroom outsourcing and digital mail, benefits and barriers to adoption of digital mailroom solutions, and ongoing trends around digital versus printed mail. This survey examines respondent perspectives regarding the ongoing transition to digital mailroom solutions.

Enterprise Connect 2026: Collaboration Take; AI and New Work Canvases Arrive

Wayne Kurtzman — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Enterprise Connect (EC) 2026 was held from March 10 to 12, 2026, at Caesars Forum in Las Vegas, Nevada. This replaced the years-long home of the event in Orlando, Florida. Attendees found a smaller conference that reflected the major shift from last year's "AI's possibilities" to this year's urgent need to launch AI and agents and determine ROI. While AI and agents were the top theme, significant announcements were made in bringing new work surfaces or canvases to the forefront of the new era of work. This IDC Link analyzes the event, many of the announcements, and the overall trends.

F5 AppWorld 2026: Advancing the Convergence of Application Delivery, Security, and AI Operations

Jim Mercer — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

At AppWorld 2026, F5 introduced several platform and product updates designed to address the growing complexity of modern application environments, particularly those incorporating AI-driven workloads across hybrid multicloud infrastructure. The announcements focus on advancing the company’s Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP), which brings together application delivery, security, and operational visibility capabilities. Key updates include BIG-IP v21.1, agentic observability capabilities within NGINX, the introduction of F5 AI Remediate, AI-powered web application firewall enhancements, expanded API discovery and security capabilities, post-quantum cryptography readiness, and the introduction of F5 Insight for ADSP with unified observability. Collectively, these announcements highlight the increasing convergence of networking, security, and platform operations as organizations modernize application architectures and adopt AI-enabled services.

HP Aims to Deliver the World's Most Secure, Resilient PCs

Duncan Brown — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note summarizes HP's Industry Analyst Security Summit, with a focus on the PC part of its portfolio. HP aims to offer the world's most secure and resilient PCs, developing an integrated hardware and software stack that together constitutes the highest level of security, considerably higher than software alone. WXP enables endpoint management with an additional layer of management capability for enterprises.

How Are Asia/Pacific Organizations Realizing Sustainability-Driven Business Value Creation Through AI?

Melvie Espejo — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights how Asia/Pacific organizations are leveraging AI for sustainability-driven business value creation. The study focuses on the implications of this market trend to buyers' decision-making, vendor selection criteria, and future AI for sustainability solutions investments. The study offers guidance to vendors on regional go-to-market strategies and product development. This is the regional Asia/Pacific version and accompanying piece to a worldwide and EMEA report bearing similar titles. It is based on the Asia/Pacific sample cut from IDC's AI and Sustainability Survey 2026 (n = 1,570).

IBM Quantum Advances Toward Quantum Advantage with New Molecular Discovery

Heather West, PhD — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

IBM Quantum’s demonstration of a novel half-Möbius molecular topology highlights the growing role of quantum computing in enabling real-world scientific discovery through quantum-accelerated supercomputing approaches. The announcement represents an early example of quantum business advantage and signals continued progress toward broader quantum advantage as hardware, algorithms, and hybrid architectures mature.

IDC Survey Spotlight: How Are Datacenter Strategies Around New Construction, Retrofits, and Maintenance Being Driven by Power Economics and Grid Availability?

Mikhail Jaura, Olga Yashkova — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight examines how power availability and energy economics are now pivotal in shaping global datacenter strategies. With surging demand for high-density compute and AI workloads, operators are increasingly constrained by grid limitations, escalating energy costs, and evolving regulatory mandates. These factors are driving a reevaluation of site selection, architectural models, and long-term power procurement strategies, with heightened interest in alternative markets and innovative facility designs.

Simultaneously, governments and regulators are imposing stricter sustainability and reporting requirements, directly impacting datacenter design, operational frameworks, and location decisions. Collectively, these dynamics are accelerating a shift toward distributed datacenter development, broader adoption of onsite and hybrid power solutions, and a strategic focus on resilience and operational efficiency.

This analysis draws on findings from the Datacenter Facilities and Operations Survey, which provides comprehensive insights into facility sizing, construction trends, and the evolving landscape facing datacenter operators worldwide.

IDC Survey Spotlight: How Are GenAI Use Cases Impacting IT Infrastructure Efficiency and Sustainability?

Andrew Buss, Luis Fernandes — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights that sustainability and efficiency are becoming crucial when procuring AI and generative AI (GenAI) infrastructure, as GenAI workloads tend to impact the critical IT infrastructure of companies in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) in terms of efficiency and sustainability.

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

IDC Survey Spotlight: How Do European Enterprises Manage Their WAN Now, and How Will That Change?

James Eibisch — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight shows which management models enterprises currently use for their WANs, which models they are moving toward, and what the net result might mean for the overall breakdown between in-house, co-managed, and fully managed networks. This presentation is based on IDC's 2025 European Enterprise Communications and Collaboration Survey, conducted among 1,090 medium-sized and large enterprises with a WAN.