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Exostar and Microsoft Unite to Deliver a Definitive CMMC Compliance Solution for the Defense Industrial Base

Philip D. Harris, CISSP, CCSK — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Exostar's expanded collaboration with Microsoft brings its Azure-native CMMC Ready Suite to the Microsoft Marketplace, delivering a purpose-built, zero-trust compliance architecture for the 80,000-plus members of the Defense Industrial Base. By integrating identity governance, secure collaboration, and endpoint protection into a single managed offering — while simplifying procurement through existing Azure consumption commitments — Exostar reinforces its leadership position in the CMMC compliance market. IDC views this relationship as a meaningful accelerant for DIB organizations facing mounting pressure to achieve CMMC Maturity Level 2 readiness.

Salesforce Acquires Contentful, Adding a Native Content Layer to Agentforce

Jordan Jewell, Shari Lava, Amy Machado, Tapan Patel — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Acquia Engage Denver 2026: Acquia Source Charts a Clear Path Forward for the Platform

Jordan Jewell — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note discusses Acquia Engage Denver 2026. Acquia held its North American flagship event, Acquia Engage, in Denver on April 27–28, unveiling the next evolution of Acquia Source and launching Acquia AI, a no-code agentic platform embedded directly into Source. IDC attended the event and came away impressed by the product direction and the company's governance-first approach to AI, though the central challenge remains the adoption of Source among the existing customer base today, with many customers still running legacy Drupal versions.

"Source is the clearest vision Acquia has put forward for what its platform can become, and the AI strategy is grounded in the right priorities: governance, openness, and practical automation over hype," said Jordan Jewell, senior research director, Persuasive Content and Digital Experience at IDC. "The product is heading in the right direction, and the event painted the picture for customers of Acquia's vision for the future of DXPs and what Drupal will be."

IDC Survey: Enterprise Infrastructure Pulse Survey, 4Q25: Storage Systems and Hyperconverged Infrastructure — Executive Summary

Rajiv Ranjan, Carol Sliwa, Natalya Yezhkova — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation provides a summary of the findings from IDC's 4Q25 Enterprise Infrastructure Pulse Survey of IT decision-makers with knowledge of and purchasing responsibility for their organization's storage systems and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). Taking the pulse of the enterprise IT market, the 4Q25 storage survey offers in-depth insight into current and future infrastructure requirements and investments. Areas of focus include spending plans, usage of flash storage, adoption of new storage technologies and architectures, hybrid cloud storage trends, HCI deployments, and AI workload storage requirements; this presentation focuses on findings related to all but the last area, which will be covered in a separate executive summary presentation.

The Enterprise Infrastructure Pulse is a quarterly survey focused on exploring trends in various IT infrastructure domains, including servers, storage and hyperconverged infrastructure, networking, data protection, and data logistics.

IDC Survey: Run, Refresh, Replace: How Power Generation Companies Are Prioritizing IT Solution Investments — Insights from IDC's 2026 Energy and Utilities Industry-Specific Tech and Innovation Survey

Gaia Gallotti — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey examines a portion of IDC's 2026 Energy and Utilities Industry-Specific Tech and Innovation Survey. This landmark study, run between February and March 2026, covers utilities worldwide.

The survey covered 800 respondents, of which 531 are utilities respondents from the following countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, KSA, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Türkiye, UAE, the U.K., and the U.S.

This presentation extrapolates and analyzes select data for 99 power generation companies worldwide. It focuses on IT solution investment intentions across ten core software categories relevant to power generation companies.

The analysis covers the following areas:

Investment intentions across operations and dispatch solutions, including SCADA, operational data management (ODM), generation scheduling, and energy trading and risk management (ETRM)
Investment intentions across asset management and engineering solutions, including design and digital twin platforms, enterprise asset management (EAM), and asset performance management (APM)
Investment intentions across compliance and risk solutions, including environment, health, and safety (EHS); sustainability management; and OT security
The balance between first-time investment, upgrades, and replacement activity across each solution category

Japan 3rd Platform Forecast by Vertical Segment and Company Size, 2026–2030

Ko Shikita, Hitoshi Ichimura — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study classifies the Japan industries into a total of 21 industry segments, with 17 enterprise categories and four non-enterprise categories consisting of central government, local government, education, and consumers; and reports the actual (2025) and forecast (2026–2030) 3rd Platform spending in each category. The study also analyzes the market across five company sizes and provides forecast data for the 3rd Platform spending by company size.

"In an environment where AI-driven digital business is advancing, IT suppliers should break away from the traditional system implementation support model and shift to outcome-based services that commit to achieving key performance indicators (KPIs). It is essential to provide integrated services that encompass business process redesign, AI application domain selection, effectiveness measurement, and continuous improvement, and to present 'outcome creation' rather than 'implementation' as the value proposition," says Ko Shikita, research manager, Software, Services, and IT Spending at IDC Japan.

This is the English translation of the Japanese document (IDC #JPJ53498026).

Oracle Analyst Summit — HCM, TA, and EX Updates

Abhinav Shrivastava, Zachary Chertok — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note looks at Oracle’s 2026 Analyst Summit, which showcased the maturity of Oracle’s agentic AI vision across Fusion Agentic Applications, emphasizing a shift from systems of record to systems of outcomes. Eight HCM agentic applications were highlighted, offering consistent design patterns, integrated analytics, and configurable autonomy levels. The event underscored Oracle’s focus on talent enablement, compliance, and employee experience, with a commercial model favoring experimentation and premium LLM usage. The summit reinforced Oracle’s commitment to secure, auditable, and outcome-driven enterprise solutions.

Pivot Table: IDC Global DataSphere Forecast, 2026–2030

Adam Wright — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Pivot Table forecasts the worldwide volume of data generated (created/captured and replicated/consumed) each year in IDC's Global DataSphere. The Pivot Table segments data generated by created/captured and replicated/consumed, as well as by region, data type, device category, cloud status, location (endpoint, edge, and core), and data creator (consumer and enterprise).

Solace Vendor Profile: Event‑Driven Infrastructure for Real‑Time Data and Agentic Automation

Carlos Gonzalez — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Vendor Profile provides an overview of Solace's strategy, offerings, and market positioning in the event-driven automation and analytics space. It includes insights from IDC research and recent analyst interactions, focusing on the vendor's strengths, challenges, and future outlook.

The Three Pillars of Modern Grid Software: ADMS, Grid DERMS, and Edge DERMS

Gaia Gallotti, Jean-François Segalotto, John Villali — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective defines and contextualizes three foundational platform categories in utility distribution grid management: advanced distribution management systems (ADMSs), grid distributed energy resource management systems (grid DERMSs), and edge distributed energy resource management systems (edge DERMSs). Drawing on IDC Energy Insights' primary research and market intelligence, this document establishes precise functional definitions for each platform, articulates the distinct system-of-record roles they occupy within a layered grid architecture, and presents a strategic vision for how the integration of these three platforms enable utilities to manage the modern, DER-rich distribution grid with a holistic approach to grid management that supports reliability, decarbonization efforts, and regulatory compliance.

"The utilities that will define the next era of distribution grid excellence are those that invest not just in individual platforms but in the integration architecture that makes ADMS, grid DERMS, and edge DERMS work as a unified whole. Clarity in the definition of these systems and in their purpose and functionalities is where that journey begins, " said John Villali, senior research director, IDC Energy Insights.