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Broadcom Charts Platform Engineering 2.0: Extending the IDP for the AI-Native Enterprise

Jim Mercer, Matthew Flug — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) business recently introduced Platform Engineering 2.0, a five-pillar framework that extends the discipline's foundation, platform as a product, golden paths, and self-service internal developer platforms (IDPs) into the AI era. The framework adds AI-native infrastructure, a multi-persona experience model, embedded FinOps, security that shifts down into the platform substrate, and a composable, API-first architecture to the existing foundation of platform engineering principles.

F5 Launches AI Security Platform and Operationalizes Model Evaluation for the Enterprise

Grace Trinidad, Christopher Rodriguez, Frank Dickson — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

On June 22, 2026, F5 launched its AI Security Platform, extending its Application Delivery and Security Platform strategy from web applications and APIs into enterprise AI applications, models, agents, and APIs. Anchored by the acquisition of SurePath AI, whose network-based technology supplies AI discovery, the platform runs as a continuous loop across four pillars, AI Discovery, AI Security Testing, AI Governance, and AI Runtime Protection, with an observability layer over them. It stress-tests systems against more than 140,000 attack patterns before production, enforces plain-language guardrails at runtime, and deploys across on-premises, air-gapped, private cloud, hybrid, and public cloud environments, with a reach aimed at regulated buyers. F5 cites its 2026 SOAS Report that 88% of organizations face an AI-related security challenge and 98% are preparing for agentic AI. IDC's read: F5's real contribution is not another control but a yardstick. Provenance records what a model is; CASI and ARS measure what it does under attack, comparably and every month, turning model trustworthiness from a vendor claim into a number an enterprise can rank, price, and re-verify.

Palantir and NVIDIA Announce Sovereign AI Partnership for Defense and National Security Agencies

Alan Webber — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Palantir Technologies and NVIDIA announced a joint engine on June 29, 2026, that runs NVIDIA's open-weight Nemotron models inside Palantir's Sovereign AI Operating System, built for U.S. government agencies and critical infrastructure operators that require classified or air-gapped deployment. The announcement extends a reference architecture the two companies published in March 2026 and gives defense and national security technology leaders a packaged answer to two questions that have slowed AI adoption in classified settings: where the data goes, and who owns the model.

DTW 2026 – Reality Check for Autonomous Networks, Agentic AI, and the future of telco monetization

Chris Silberberg — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

DTW Ignite 2026 drew 3,000+ attendees to Copenhagen, with agentic AI, autonomous networks, AI monetization, and customer experience emerging as the event's defining cross-vendor themes. Though in some areas progress has not been as fast as expected, discussions were experience led, with progress being made in all areas.

Status of Retail: Key Findings from the Global Retail Survey 2026 – IDC Retail Insights

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation presents the main results from IDC’s 2026 Retail Technologies and Business Process Trends Survey. The report examines the strategic priorities, technology investments, and operational challenges facing retailers worldwide, spanning six key domains: AI strategy, omni-channel commerce, customer experience and loyalty, store and workforce operations, supply chain management, and IT architecture and cybersecurity. The research draws on survey data from a global sample of retail decision-makers across subcategories including health and beauty, grocery, and specialty retail. It is complemented by case studies from leading retailers such as Sephora, Starbucks, Fanatics, and Walmart.

This study explores how retailers are allocating budgets across areas such as agentic AI, edge computing, RFID, merchandising technology, and loyalty platforms, providing a quantified view of where spending is increasing and which initiatives are currently being implemented or budgeted. Across all domains, the research benchmarks adoption rates, identifies the most urgent challenges practitioners face, and highlights the technology levers that retailers expect to drive revenue growth and operational resilience through 2026 and beyond.

IDC's Worldwide Enterprise Workload Infrastructure Taxonomy, 2026

Max Pepper, Natalya Yezhkova — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Taxonomy provides an overview of and definitions for IDC's Enterprise Workloads Infrastructure Stacks and Deployments syndicated research. It is also a base for IDC's Semiannual Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker: Workloads. Driven by extensive primary research and analysis, these products provide insights into trends in workload migration, workload virtualization, demand for certain compute and storage technologies for various workloads, and forecast spending on compute and storage systems supporting these workloads.

"IDC's enterprise workloads infrastructure research evaluates how server systems, external storage systems, and HCI appliances support workload applications and looks at the impact of various deployment models, locations, infrastructure tiers, virtualization architectures, and other influential factors on workload implementation at the infrastructure level. This helps provide actionable insights into buyer behavior to enable enterprises to best understand infrastructure modernization trends and strategies, especially as we see rapid evolution in trends in the face of artificial intelligence enablement," said Max Pepper, senior research analyst, Enterprise Workloads and Core Infrastructure at IDC.

Market Analysis Perspective: Japan Datacenter Facility and Colocation 2026

Mimei Ito — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本プレゼンテーションは国内データセンターコロケーション市場およびデータセンターファシリティ市場の市場動向をまとめたものである。データセンターファシリティとは、データセンターの冷却システム、電気設備、建設躯体などを指す。

本プレゼンテーションには、国内データセンターコロケーション市場予測、国内データセンターの面積／電力キャパシティ予測、データセンターの利用に関するユーザー動向の分析などが含まれる。

Market Share: Worldwide Campus and Branch Ethernet Switch Shares, 2025

Brandon Butler — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation presents the worldwide 2025 campus and branch (e.g., non-datacenter) Ethernet switch market shares.

"In the AI era, connectivity has become mission critical rather than optional. For organizations worldwide, campus and branch Ethernet switching serves as foundational infrastructure — enabling diverse use cases while delivering the high-performance, secure, and reliable connectivity required to support a rapidly expanding population of users and devices." — Brandon Butler, senior research manager, Network Infrastructure and Services, IDC

Thriive 26: Fujifilm's European Partner Conference

Phil Sargeant — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

On June 8, Fujifilm brought together its channel partners, the media, and industry analysts at its European Partner Conference in Vienna, Austria. Thriive 26 was the third installment in the conference series, following the original Thriive event in Budapest, Hungary, in 2024 and the second installment in Madrid, Spain, in 2025.

Verizon and BT Combine International Units in Joint Venture to Simplify Cross-Border, Cloud-First Connectivity

Alejandro Cadenas, Jan Hein Bakkers, Jitesh Bhayani, Paul Hughes, Denise Lund — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Verizon and BT's announced plan to combine their international enterprise units into an equally owned new company brings together an estimated $4 billion in yearly revenue and reach into upward of 3,000 multinational accounts spread across 180-plus countries. This pair up comes as enterprises are shifting workloads into a cloud-first, AI-driven model, domestic connectivity markets are seeing increased competitive pressures, and larger enterprises are looking for a telco partner that can scale and deliver across broader international touch points.