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NetApp Platform Launch: Agentic AI Data Infrastructure for Developer Enablement and Multicloud PaaS Environments

Adam Reeves — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Positioning the company's data layer as a governance and portability component for multicloud PaaS and agentic AI, NetApp announced updates to the NetApp Platform on September 29, 2026. The announcements included new autonomous operations and fleet management for NetApp Console, a heterogeneous NetApp AI Data Engine, Keystone Sovereign, an OCI-native storage service with Oracle, and the NetApp Novus architecture for AI factories.

Microsoft Copilot Managed Runtime: Application Platform Hosting and Governance for AI-Generated Applications in Microsoft 365

Adam Reeves — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Microsoft introduced Microsoft Copilot Managed Runtime, formerly Managed Apps, into public preview on September 25, 2026, as an application platform hosting layer and SDK in Microsoft 365 that governs AI-generated applications built in Microsoft and third-party tools. Governing the running artifact gives IT a single inventory, and the value of that approach depends on how many developers and outside builders route their apps through the SDK.

Navigating the Agentic Shift: AI Strategies for Wealth Management

Dr. Chris Marshall, Michael Sek Pheng Yeo — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective examines the agentic AI moving from pilot to production in wealth management in 2026, productivity and ROI evidence supporting it, and governance practices technology buyers need to scale autonomy safely.

“The wealth managers winning with agentic AI are not the ones moving fastest; they are the ones who built the strongest foundations in platforms and governance before building the autonomy functions as well as those who are constantly evolving their budgets and decision-making based on the rapid cadence of development in the industry,” says Michael Yeo, associate research director, IDC Financial Insights.

Solving the Execution Gap: A Tech Vendor’s Playbook for Energy Transition

Roberta Bigliani — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation shows that buyer demand for energy transition programs has moved past the pilot stage, while the offers built to serve it have not kept pace. Targets are funded, budgets are rising, and CEOs, CFOs, and COOs now hold the main decision-making and spending roles on this agenda. What the survey exposes is a gap between the funded demand and the accountability, data, and commercial models technology vendors need to sell against it.

IDC’s 2026 Energy Transition Survey questioned 1,135 large organizations across 17 countries in North America, Europe, and Asia/Pacific. 81% have set a net-zero target, and 84% plan to raise investment over the next 24 months, yet only 18% report full profit-and-loss accountability for that spending. 52% say their carbon and energy data still sits across disconnected sources and formats, 70% expect a return within two to five years, and 74% are testing or already relying on performance-based contracts with their delivery partners.

The presentation sets out what vendor leadership, account teams, and portfolio leaders should each do to convert that gap into revenue: Sell to the economic owner by leading with payback, resilience, and operating performance; package energy assets, controls, data, and services into a single offer a buyer can approve in one decision; back the offer with named references, measured outcomes, and a shared verification method; and put financing, service levels, and partner accountability into the commercial terms from the start. Suppliers that put these four moves in place within the current buying cycle will own the sector value cases their buyers are already funding.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Advanced Distribution Management Systems 2026 Vendor Assessment

Gaia Gallotti, Jean-François Segalotto, John Villali — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC MarketScape study evaluates vendors providing advanced distribution management system (ADMS) solutions to utilities worldwide. It analyzes vendors’ capabilities, strategies, and comparative positioning in a market undergoing structural transformation as distribution networks absorb rising volumes of distributed energy resources (DERs) and utilities pursue electrification-driven grid modernization. The report provides utilities with a structured framework to assess vendor offerings across core operational functionality, DER-aware distribution operations, platform architecture, integration capabilities, and ecosystem extensibility.

“The difference between a genuinely unified ADMS and a set of interfaced applications sharing a label only becomes visible on the worst night of the year,” said Jean-François Segalotto, senior associate advisor, IDC Energy Insights. “This IDC MarketScape shows that the unified model also sets the ceiling on operational AI and autonomy, because every advance — from automated restoration to agentic operator support — ultimately inherits the accuracy of the underlying network model and operational data.”

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Edge Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems 2026 Vendor Assessment

John Villali, Gaia Gallotti, Jean-François Segalotto — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study evaluates vendors providing edge distributed energy resource management systems (edge DERMSs) solutions to utilities worldwide. It analyzes vendors' capabilities, strategies, and comparative positioning in a market undergoing structural transformation as distribution networks absorb rising volumes of distributed energy resources (DERs) and utilities pursue electrification-driven grid modernization. The document provides utilities with a structured framework to assess vendor offerings across DER portfolio optimization and aggregation, market participation and VPP orchestration, platform architecture, integration capabilities, and ecosystem extensibility.

"Edge DERMS is no longer a bet on future flexibility markets; its infrastructure utilities need now, as DER penetration outpaces the tools built to manage it. The vendors that succeed the next three to five years will be the ones proving real-time dispatch at production scale today while building the interoperability with grid DERMS and ADMS that regulators and utilities will increasingly demand," said John Villali, senior research director, IDC Energy Insights.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Grid Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems 2026 Vendor Assessment

Gaia Gallotti, Jean-François Segalotto, John Villali — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC MarketScape study evaluates vendors providing grid distributed energy resource management system (grid DERMS) solutions to utilities worldwide. It analyzes vendors’ capabilities, strategies, and comparative positioning in a market undergoing structural transformation as distribution networks absorb rising volumes of distributed energy resources (DERs) and utilities pursue electrification-driven grid modernization. The report provides utilities with a structured framework to assess vendor offerings across DER orchestration and dispatch, network-constraint optimization, platform architecture, integration capabilities, and ecosystem extensibility.

“Grid capacity has stopped being a system-level question and become a question about a specific feeder at a specific hour, which means utilities now need the ability to enforce a network constraint at a precise point on the grid, within operational timescales, and across resources they may not own. That is no longer something an ADMS alone is designed to do,” said Gaia Gallotti, research director, IDC Energy Insights. “This IDC MarketScape shows that grid DERMS has become the system of record for that decision. As AI expands into constraint prediction and decision support, as well as automation into closed-loop dispatch, the control authority will increasingly determine how much grid capacity utilities can unlock.”

IDC ProductScape: Worldwide AI Business-Cycle Services for Media and Entertainment, 2026

Alex Holtz — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC ProductScape offers a comprehensive guide on key functionalities of the media industry. Its business cycle comprises operations, orchestration, production, distribution, and monetization (as well as their primary functional use cases). This report features products from Accenture, Arc XP, AWS, Amagi, Comcast Technology Solutions, EPAM, Vizrt, Dalet, HCLTech, Tata Communications, Grass Valley, Ross Video, Telestream, Harmonic, MediaKind, Microsoft, Imagine Communication, and Globant. Based on IDC's framework, the status of each functionality is categorized as fully supported, partially supported, partner provided, road map, or not supported, aiding technology purchasers in quickly identifying which vendors align with their changing requirements.

Supersizing the Middleman: Uber's ezCater Acquisition Extends Platform Consolidation to Catering and Raises the Stakes for Direct Ordering

Dorothy Creamer — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Link examines Uber Technologies' October 6, 2026, announcement that the company will acquire ezCater, the leading U.S. platform for workplace catering and group meal ordering, in an all-cash transaction valued at $2.3 billion. ezCater connects more than 140,000 restaurants with business buyers and generated more than $2.5 billion in gross bookings over the trailing 12 months, and the deal will fold that catering marketplace into Uber Eats and the enterprise relationships of Uber for Business. The acquisition is the latest signal that third-party ordering and delivery is consolidating into a small number of scaled, multiservice platforms, and it lands at a moment when restaurant operators are telling IDC that building their own direct digital channels is a top investment priority. The move carries implications for restaurant brands, franchisors, and multi-brand groups and for the point of sale (POS), ordering, loyalty, and AI vendors that serve them. When the same app that delivers your favorite fast-food indulgence can also cater your company's all-hands lunch, the restaurants that own their guest relationship will be the ones taking a seat at the table.

Asia/Pacific Regulatory Pulse 2026: Upcoming Financial Services Institution Regulations, Expected Impacts, and Complexity

Clay Miller, Michael Sek Pheng Yeo — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective examines the Asia/Pacific regulations most likely to affect FSIs’ technology road maps through 2026 and beyond, covering AI governance, digital assets, solvency and climate risk, operational resilience, and data privacy. It assesses developments across Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Australia, Japan, South Korea, and other markets, and offers guidance on turning compliance into competitive advantage.

“By 2027, most of the region’s AI, digital asset, and resilience compliance has moved from proposal to enforcement,” says Clay Miller, adjunct research advisor, IT Executive Programs (IEP), IDC. “The FSIs leading are not the ones with the most documented policies, they are the ones that can prove that their systems are governed, auditable, and resilient.”

“Digital assets and cross-border data governance went from footnotes to headline considerations for what is rapidly becoming a common global theme,” says Michael Yeo, associate research director, IDC Financial Insights. “Both focus directly on technology architecture, so FSIs that treat either as a niche compliance initiative will be reactive versus proactive for requirements they should have anticipated. Institutions must embed both digital asset considerations and data governance frameworks into their core business strategies moving forward.”