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Market Forecast: Worldwide SD-WAN Infrastructure Forecast, 2026–2030

Brandon Butler — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides the five-year forecast for the software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) infrastructure market and delivers insights into the drivers and inhibitors of growth.

The SD-WAN infrastructure market continues to evolve, driven by AI’s dual impact as both a connectivity demand driver and embedded management capability, alongside SD-WAN’s foundational role in secure access service edge (SASE) architectures. SD-WAN enables organizations to unify network and security policy across distributed enterprises while AI reshapes real-time policy management and enforcement, accelerating convergence toward integrated network-security frameworks.

Worldwide Quantum Computing Market Outlook and Customer Spending Trends, 2026–2030

Heather West, PhD — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation provides an overview of worldwide quantum computing market trends and outlook for future spending. This overview focuses on the analysis of spending trends for quantum computing segmented by quantum computing systems, platforms, and technologies; quantum-related systems, platforms, and technologies; and quantum computing and quantum-inspired services. Additionally, trends in quantum investments are discussed.

osapiens Acquires Nasdaq’s Metrio Platform, Deepening ESG Reporting Depth and Accelerating U.S. Expansion

Amy Cravens — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note examines osapiens’ acquisition of Nasdaq’s Metrio platform and customer base completed on August 19, 2026, pairing Metrio’s nonfinancial reporting and carbon accounting capabilities and North American enterprise footprint with the AI-driven compliance and supplier intelligence platform delivered through the osapiens HUB. The deal reinforces functionality that osapiens already delivers while accelerating a U.S. expansion the company was already pursuing, and it closes capability gaps in both directions, from ESG ratings management and peer benchmarking to mandatory EU compliance coverage and native AI automation. How much value is ultimately realized will depend on how cleanly osapiens integrates two platforms with different operating models, hosting environments, and market positioning.

“This acquisition is additive, not defensive; osapiens is buying capability and a customer base it did not previously have, in the market it most needed both.” — Amy Cravens, research manager, Sustainability and ESG Software, IDC

IDC Survey: The Satisfaction Gap in Sustainability Software

Amy Cravens — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey examines how buyer satisfaction, value extraction, and continued pain points with sustainability software. Drawing on 816 organizations across 17 countries and 15 industries, the survey finds a market that has matured well past compliance reporting, but where the benefits of that maturity are unevenly shared.

“Organizations that treat sustainability software as strategic infrastructure — not just a reporting requirement — are the ones seeing real value: better data, tighter operations, a genuine edge with regulators and customers alike. Still, adoption isn’t universal: a meaningful share of users continue to struggle, and the root cause is often inadequate training rather than the software itself.” — Amy Cravens, research manager, Sustainability/ESG Software at IDC

Market Forecast：国内クラウド管理型ネットワークソリューション市場予測、2026年～2030年

Kenichi Kusano — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本調査レポートでは、国内クラウド管理型ネットワークソリューション市場を対象に、今後5年間の市場規模を予測するとともに、成長要因および阻害要因を分析する。国内クラウド管理型ネットワークソリューション市場は、企業ネットワークの運用管理における主要技術の一つとして成長を続けている。AI（Artificial Intelligence）を活用した運用管理でクラウド管理型がリードしていることや、ネットワーク製品価格の上昇も追い風になっている。

「従来型のネットワーク構築や運用から脱却し、クラウドプラットフォームやクラウドエクスペリエンスを取り入れたモダナイゼーションは、企業が取り組むべき課題の一つである。クラウド管理型ネットワークソリューションベンダーは、企業ネットワークのモダナイゼーションを促進する「触媒」として、クラウド管理型ソリューション導入の価値を訴求すべきである」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。

NVIDIA's $12.9 Billion Hugging Face Deal: Buying Influence Over Modern AI Developers, Not Just a Platform

Ashish Nadkarni, Neil Ward-Dutton, Arnal Dayaratna, Shari Lava — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

With this deal, NVIDIA stands to regain influence over AI developers that it enjoyed pre-generative AI and bend the direction of AI model innovation and adoption back toward the open stance that lessened as today's major frontier AI labs took up major market-influencing positions. The deal is worth more to NVIDIA than the price tag suggests.

IDC Survey: Worldwide Telco DX Network Infrastructure and Cloud Survey, 2026 — Satellite and NTN Responses

Simon Baker — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey, conducted in April 2026, builds upon a prior study from 2025 that explored how global telecommunications service providers are prioritizing technology investments, modernizing their operational and commercial infrastructure, and scaling AI across their organizations.

IDC's 2026 Telco DX Network Infrastructure and Cloud Survey captures insights from 350 telecom operators across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia/Pacific regions.

Responses related to satellite communications show a big jump in telco interest in using satellite services. The main interest is in broadband service, ahead of satellite IoT and then direct smartphone to satellite (D2C) service. The telco respondents have more interest in working with Amazon Leo than they do with Starlink, despite the Amazon service not yet being operational at the time the survey was conducted.

IDC Survey Spotlight: What Was the Operational Impact of the March 2026 Drone Strikes on Cloud Datacenters in the UAE and Bahrain? (Part 1)

Rob Tiffany — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at workload resilience considering the March 2026 drone strikes on cloud datacenters in the UAE and Bahrain. It draws upon data collected from IDC’s Cloud Pulse Survey in June 2026.

IDC Survey: IDC’s Worldwide Digital Sovereignty Survey, 2026 — Key Findings for Canada

Nigel Wallis — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey draws on IDC’s 2026 Worldwide Digital Sovereignty Survey, a survey of 600 large enterprises across 15 countries, to examine how Canadian organizations are approaching sovereign cloud and AI sovereignty relative to the worldwide sample. The analysis isolates the Canadian subsample, 50 respondents, and compares it against the worldwide total on every question in scope.

The analysis covers:

Adoption stage and infrastructure mix: How far Canadian organizations have moved on sovereign cloud relative to the worldwide sample, and which deployment models they favor.
Drivers and trade-offs: What is pushing Canadian organizations toward sovereignty, and what they are willing to give up to get it.
Workload and application-level priorities: Which business applications, platforms, and infrastructure layers Canadian organizations rate as needing sovereign controls.
Vendor and feature requirements: What Canadian buyers look for in a sovereign cloud partner, and where they see current offerings falling short.
AI sovereignty: How Canadian organizations are building and governing AI on sovereign infrastructure, and how that compares with the worldwide pattern.

“Digital sovereignty has moved from a compliance requirement to a resilience and control strategy over the past six months, pushed by geopolitical uncertainty, AI workload growth, and new sovereign infrastructure investment,” says Nigel Wallis, research VP, IDC Insights. “In Canada, that shift runs alongside a federal push to build domestic sovereign AI compute capacity and to modernize privacy law, against a backdrop of enterprise dependency on cloud and AI providers headquartered outside the country.”

Market Analysis Perspective: Datacenter Facilities Builders Trends and Strategies, 2026

Mikhail Jaura, Dr. William Lee, Andrew Buss, Luis Fernandes — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides insight into the current and future state of the datacenter facilities builders market. It draws on IDC's Semiannual Datacenter Facilities Tracker to size the worldwide facilities power capacity and construction capital spending through 2030, profile the leading owner-operators by scale and investment, and advise operators and their technology partners on where to focus capital as AI workloads reset power, cooling, and density requirements.

"Through 2030, power availability, not demand, will decide the datacenter buildout. The operators that pull ahead are those securing power and engineering for liquid cooling well before the workloads land, leaving the rest to bid for whatever megawatts remain. That advantage compounds with scale. The largest operators lock in power, capital, and land first, and every buildout cycle widens their lead over midmarket providers that cannot commit at the same size or speed," said Mikhail Jaura, senior research analyst, Cloud and Datacenters, Enterprise Infrastructure, IDC.