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IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Datacenter Facilities Management Software 2026 Vendor Assessment

Luis Fernandes, Mary Johnston Turner — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study leverages the IDC MarketScape methodology to evaluate several major datacenter facilities management software providers worldwide. IDC identified a plethora of significant players in this market and analyzed their current offerings as well as planned updates.

"Gaps in monitoring, automation, and orchestration constitute a major hindrance in today's management of datacenter facilities," according to Luis Fernandes, senior research manager, Cloud and Datacenter Research at IDC. "By choosing a best-in-class software solution to manage their datacenter facilities, IT and OT managers are effectively choosing a path of less resistance, with fewer instances of unforeseen incidents which, in turn, lead to overall better human resource management, reduced total cost of ownership, and less unplanned downtime."

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Desktop Label Printers 2026 Vendor Assessment

Mitri Roufka, Tim Greene — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC MarketScape assesses the capabilities and strategies of 15 global vendors of desktop label printers. It also provides guidance to vendors and advice to companies considering the acquisition of such equipment, including the selection criteria they should consider and the vendors that fit their production printing needs best.

"Desktop label printers are evolving from simple output devices into critical infrastructure for digital traceability, compliance, logistics automation, and product branding across global industries. Future market leadership in desktop label printing will depend not only on hardware performance but also on vendors' ability to support evolving compliance, connectivity, automation, and customization requirements," says Mitri Roufka, program director, IDC Imaging, Printing, and Document Solutions team.

Anthropic and Salesforce: AI and CRM Join Forces

Tim Law, Shari Lava, Neil Ward-Dutton, Max Pepper — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Salesforce and Anthropic announced Claudeforce. This new partnership launches with Salesforce in Claude, a plugin available to select pilot customers now, with open beta expected in September 2026. It signals a shift in the AI partner ecosystem, where large enterprise application providers combine with AI models to leverage deterministic, trusted enterprise applications alongside the power of nondeterministic AI models and natural language interfaces. It also solidifies Anthropic's focus on bringing frontier reasoning and intelligence to commercial enterprises by collaborating with large enterprise systems of record.

Cisco Extends Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA to Rack Scale, Trading Engineered Platform Control for Rapid Time to Market

Brent Ellis, Kuba Stolarski, Ashish Nadkarni, Matthew Eastwood — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Cisco's expansion of Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA to rack-scale infrastructure through a partnership with Supermicro gives enterprises another full-stack AI infrastructure option as the market shifts from large-scale training to AI inference and agentic implementation, which carry support and governance requirements that training clusters do not. The partnership blends Cisco's reputation as a reliable enterprise infrastructure provider, built on the company's engineered networking and compute portfolio, with Supermicro's speed to market as an ODM implementer of NVIDIA reference designs for AI-dense servers, as well as rack-scale solutions like NVL72; the adoption of Spectrum-X networking rather than in-house Cisco designs shows how the NVIDIA release cadence is resetting the pace of enterprise infrastructure deployments and engineering.

Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight: How Are Vertical Sectors Addressing IT/Connectivity and Related Cost Impacts?

Paul Hughes — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight examines how enterprises view the impact of tariffs and economic shifts on the cost of IT services, and how tech-specific tariffs or currency changes will most affect budgets. Over 60% will simply increase their IT budget to address increased costs; however, that percentage differs significantly by vertical market.

The data in this Spotlight comes from IDC’s 2026 Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey Wave 4, with 1,835 respondents across 27 countries and 15 vertical industries.

Consumers Against or With Retailers? A 2026 Comparison Across Two IDC Surveys

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation examines where retailer strategies and consumer expectations align or diverge across the retail industry in 2026. The analysis is structured around eight thematic areas: conversational and agentic AI; personalization and cross-channel continuity; fulfillment, delivery, and the last mile; in-store experience; trust, data, and privacy; payments and the agentic payment horizon; sustainability and ESG legibility; and channel and revenue mix. Each theme is discussed from both the consumer and retailer perspectives, culminating in a convergence-and-divergence matrix and a closing discussion of gaps in current retailer strategy. The consumer perspective draws on IDC’s WW Retail Consumer Insights Survey (May 2026), while the retailer perspective draws on IDC Retail Technologies & Business Process Trends, 2026.

IBM's Dual-Architecture Processor Brings Native Arm Execution to the Mainframe

Kuba Stolarski, Jeff Janukowicz, Brent Ellis, Dr. William Lee, Jim Hines — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

At the Hot Chips 2026 conference, IBM disclosed a next-generation processor for future IBM Z and LinuxONE systems that executes both the z/Architecture and Arm (AArch64) instruction sets natively on every core. IBM describes it as the industry's first dual-architecture mainframe processor and the first hardware result of its April 2026 collaboration with Arm. The disclosure matters less for its peak specifications than for the software boundary it moves. Running Arm-based Linux on the same silicon that runs z/OS and existing Linux workloads, and exposing the platform's cryptography, compression, and AI accelerators to Arm software through standard Linux interfaces, positions IBM Z and LinuxONE to host the growing body of cloud-native and AI software written for Arm without asking customers to give up the reliability, security, and availability that keep mission-critical workloads on the platform.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Transportation Management Systems 2026 Vendor Assessment

Simon Ellis, Reid Paquin — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study analyzes software providers in the market today that support transportation management processes in planning, execution, visibility, optimization, and procurement. Global transportation is a fragmented market that transportation management systems (TMSs) software aims to synchronize into, and across, the supply chain. Automating processes and integrated analytics help organizations improve productivity and drive consistency by enabling practitioners to make more informed and timely decisions across the operational landscape.

"Constantly changing global trade complexities and the persistent, unpredictable disruption of transportation networks require that companies employ a fit-for-purpose TMS application," says Simon Ellis, group VP for Manufacturing and Supply Chain, IDC. "In this IDC MarketScape, we see a group of very strong vendors offering capabilities to make global multimodal shipping an integrated part of their broader supply chain. Advanced TMS capabilities allow clients to derive a competitive advantage versus many who still view it as a basic support function."

ILTACON 2026: Gather Round the Legaltech Campfire

Ryan O'Leary, Esq. — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Every vendor is best friends with adjacent technology vendors. Point solutions continue to rule the day, but the vendors are so entrenched in their spaces that partnership is the name of the game as acquisitions have become too costly across technologies.

NVIDIA FY 2Q27 Results: Orchestrating the AI Infrastructure Economy

Matthew Eastwood, Ashish Nadkarni — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT