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ANAPLAN'S STRATEGIC POSITIONING: DECISION INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE ENTERPRISE

Heather Herbst — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Exostar Selected by U.S. Army to Deliver Secure Enclaves for Defense Industrial Base Suppliers

Philip D. Harris, CISSP, CCSK — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Exostar's selection as a Verified External Service Provider on the U.S. Army's NCODE IDIQ contract reinforces its position as an Nth party supply chain risk management firm, extending its compliance and security infrastructure to small Defense Industrial Base suppliers who lack the resources to meet CMMC and NIST SP 800-171 requirements independently. Backed by CMMC Level 2 accreditation, FedRAMP Moderate Equivalent authorization, and an established DIB network, Exostar is well-positioned to scale this role — provided it can manage the operational demands of serving resource-constrained small businesses effectively.

Google Struts Gemini; Collaborative Expansion at Google Cloud Next

Wayne Kurtzman — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

At Google Cloud Next (Las Vegas, NV, April 22-24, 2026), Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian (or “TK” as he is called) stated, "The era of the pilot is over. The era of the agent is here." With that, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG and GOOGL) unveiled Gemini Enterprise and a wave of agentic capabilities across Google Workspace and Cloud. The event drew 32,000+ attendees and ~8 million streaming views. This research examines the key announcements, many of which are already in production, through a collaboration and AI lens.

IREN Acquires Mirantis – Pairing AI Capacity with an Open, Portable, AI Deployment Platform

Gary Chen, Matthew Flug — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

IREN has announced an agreement to acquire Mirantis, combining IREN's data center capacity and GPU footprint with Mirantis's infrastructure software, deployment services, and open source expertise. Notably, IREN intends to allow Mirantis to continue operating independently, ensuring the company can maintain its commitment to building open standards for the broader industry. The transaction reflects a broader consolidation of capacity, platform, runtime, deployment, and management layers in AI infrastructure as buyers move toward integrated "AI factory" platforms.

RunIQ Labs: Entering the AI Infrastructure Accountability Market

Dave McCarthy — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

RunIQ Labs AI launched its independent AI infrastructure measurement platform, targeting a persistent and costly gap between what AI vendors promise and what production systems actually deliver. The company positions itself as the first fiduciary-grade measurement authority for AI infrastructure, built around its core concept of Ghost Capacity — the spread between provisioned capacity and real sustained output, which can represent hundreds of thousands of dollars in recoverable annual waste per workload.

The platform integrates three layers: an operational Dashboard, a cryptographically sealed Deployment Diagnostic Record (DDR) designed to satisfy regulatory and board-level scrutiny, and the RunIQScore (a composite verdict across performance, power, and cost). RunIQ is making an early bid to define the standard for AI infrastructure economics, with a channel strategy built around major system integrators and managed service providers.

Atlassian Team '26: Teamwork Graph Emerges as an Organizational Context Layer for Agentic Development

Adam Resnick — Mon, 11 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

IDC Survey: IT Services Providers' Performance, Growth Strategies, and Vendor Partnerships in the META Region, 2026

Eric Samuel — Mon, 11 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

IDC's EMEA Partner Survey, 2025 (Middle East, Türkiye, and Africa responses) was conducted to give IT services providers and technology vendors a data-backed view of how systems integrators across the META region are evolving their performance, capabilities, and ecosystem partnerships, with a specific focus on:

IT services provider performance and growth dynamics, including revenue trajectories, growth bifurcation between leaders and laggards, and the capability factors separating scaling providers from stalled ones
Strategic priorities shaping the next 12–24 months, covering customer success, AI-enabled service delivery, workforce transformation, and the market shifts SIs view as opportunities versus threats
AI capability and delivery maturity across client-facing and internal use cases, including where SIs are building capability, sequencing investments, and confronting skills gaps
The vendor partnership landscape, mapping which technology vendors SIs partner with, rank as strategic, and view as indispensable, alongside the program benefits and friction points that drive partner loyalty or churn
Cloud maturity, consumption economics, and marketplace engagement, including how SIs monetize proprietary IP, co-sell with ISVs, and scale workloads through hyperscaler marketplaces
Actionable implications for both IT services providers seeking to scale next-gen portfolios and technology vendors seeking to deepen SI partnerships across the META region

"The META SI market is bifurcating. With only 14% of respondents growing by over 10% and just 8% running mature AI practices, capability depth, not demand, now decides who scales. Vendors that lead with co-sell, local investment, and AI enablement will lock in the next decade of partnerships." — Associate Research Director Eric Samuel, Services, IDC

Microsoft Dragon Copilot Experience for Nurses: Ambient AI Reaches the Bedside and Beyond

Jennifer Eaton — Mon, 11 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Microsoft announced new enhancements to the Dragon Copilot experience for nurses during Nurses Week 2026 (May 6, 2026), highlighting its AI clinical assistant with capabilities purpose-built for nursing workflows. This IDC Link covers the announcement details and product capabilities, competitive implications, and strategic guidance for healthcare technology buyers and suppliers.

SUSECON 2026 Highlights: Geeko Goes AI and Sovereign

Ashish Nadkarni, Shahin Hashim, Gary Chen, Max Pepper — Mon, 11 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

SUSE is a company on a mission. It is making a concerted attempt to shift from a (Linux-centric) platform vendor to a full-stack open source infrastructure company. SUSE's announcements reflect timely attention to three converging enterprise pressures: enterprise AI deployment, regulatory and geopolitical complexity, and VMware licensing.

"With quite a few strategic bets in place, SUSE could quickly catapult ahead of its competition in terms of a strategic partners to enterprises that are focused on embracing modern, hybrid cloud, and AI-ready infrastructure," says Ashish Nadkarni, GVP/GM, Enterprise Infrastructure, IDC.

Sage Future 2026: Trust, Governance, and the Next Phase of AI in Finance

Kevin Permenter — Mon, 11 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

At Sage Future 2026 in San Francisco, Sage outlined a disciplined vision for AI in finance centered on operational trust, governance, and workflow accountability. Across product announcements, partner discussions, and executive messaging, the company consistently emphasized explainability, human oversight, and embedded controls as foundational requirements for enterprise AI adoption in finance.

The event reflected broader shifts occurring across the office of the CFO software market. Earlier phases of AI adoption focused heavily on productivity gains and conversational assistance. Sage's positioning suggests that the market is increasingly moving toward operational use cases, where finance organizations are evaluating whether AI can support execution within core workflows while maintaining auditability, compliance, and financial control.

For finance leaders, the message was increasingly pragmatic. Near-term enterprise adoption of AI in finance may depend less on fully autonomous systems and more on governed, explainable AI embedded directly into financial operations.