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Azure-Native Routing Appliance: A Step Forward, But Not the End of Network Virtual Appliances

Taranvir Singh — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Microsoft Azure's announcement of a virtual network routing appliance to streamline east-west traffic natively addresses key routing use cases for Azure customers. However, in IDC's view, it is not equivalent to network virtual appliances that Azure customers use for advanced routing and firewalling capabilities. Further functional enhancements, such as integrations with Azure virtual WAN and support for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)–based route exchange, are needed for wider adoption.

Claude Code Security: Why Cloud Security Platforms Are the Linchpin for CISO-Grade AI AppSec

Philip Bues, Frank Dickson — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Launched in limited preview on February 20, 2026, Anthropic's Claude Code Security introduces reasoning-based AI to application security, blending code analysis, vulnerability validation, and developer-guided remediation. The market reaction has been cautiously optimistic: Early enterprise security teams cite strong detection and contextual remediation but emphasize the need for deeper integration and transparency.

European Managed Cloud Services in 2026: Adoption, Spending Intentions, and Strategic Shifts

Francesca Ciarletta — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation examines European IT buyers' adoption of and spending intentions for managed cloud services in 2026, as well as the strategic shifts shaping how organizations engage with service providers. It reflects a positive spending outlook and highlights the growing emphasis on provider consolidation, selective switching, and evolving expectations around advanced capabilities and business outcomes. The analysis is based on IDC's EMEA Cloud Survey, conducted in September 2025 among more than 1,100 European organizations that are currently using managed cloud services or planning to use them in 2026.

IDC Survey: 2025 Enterprise Communications Services Survey — Enterprise Networking Trends

Courtney Munroe — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

The IDC Survey provides key trends on the current usage of enterprise wide area networking in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom as well as related priorities and challenges. AI-driven analytics, network performance, and security remain key enterprise priorities. Security risks, hybrid multicloud architectures, and skills gaps are pushing enterprises to rely more heavily on managed services.

IDC TechBrief: CMDB Discovery

Gerald Johnston — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC TechBrief discusses the importance of CMDB discovery. Organizations increasingly depend on hybrid cloud, SaaS platforms, and third-party services to deliver critical business capabilities, yet they remain fully accountable for understanding and governing the assets that support those services. Third-party services often include authentication, threat and vulnerability management, and finance functions such as procurement and general ledger. This makes accurate and continuous discovery essential for feeding configuration management databases (CMDBs) and providing a unified view of the IT environment for development, operations, and security teams. For decades, the CMDB has been treated as a mission-critical system — often prioritized for restoration during outages — because it underpins change management, incident triage, vulnerability assessment, and compliance reporting. However, maintaining CMDB accuracy has historically been difficult due to inconsistent updates, manual processes, and fragmented ownership.

Modern discovery tools address these challenges by automatically identifying assets, configurations, cloud resources, dependencies, and changes across complex environments. They reduce blind spots and prevent incorrect or outdated data from undermining operational decisions. Operating with inaccurate configuration data is akin to flying with a faulty altimeter: Decisions appear sound, but the assumptions are dangerously flawed. Real-time discovery restores trust in the CMDB and supports reliable change impact analysis, deployment validation, drift detection, and vulnerability management. As cloud adoption accelerates and third-party reliance expands, discovery also becomes critical for meeting regulatory expectations that require complete and accurate asset inventories.

Contemporary discovery platforms extend beyond traditional scan-based approaches, incorporating cloud-native APIs, event-driven telemetry, and AI-assisted normalization to improve accuracy and reduce manual verification. Many organizations begin with discovery tools integrated into their CMDB platform, such as ServiceNow Discovery, while supplementing them with specialized solutions that provide deeper visibility into unmanaged, cloud-native, or third-party assets. This layered approach ensures the CMDB remains a trustworthy system of record across an increasingly decentralized architecture.

As enterprises distribute workloads across internal and external environments, discovery will shift from a supporting toolset to a foundational capability for operational resilience. Organizations that invest in modern discovery, strong governance, and cross-team alignment will gain the accurate configuration data required to manage change, respond to incidents, reduce risk, and meet rising compliance expectations. "A resilient organization begins with knowing exactly what exists in its environment. Modern discovery turns the CMDB into a living source of truth — without it, operations, security, and compliance are flying blind," says Gerald Johnston, adjunct research advisor with IDC's IT Executive Programs (IEP).

Tata Consultancy Services U.K. Cloud and Infrastructure Analyst Day: Key Takeaways

Francesca Ciarletta, Filippo Vanara, Matthew Wilkins, Stuart Wilson — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Perspective analyzes the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Cloud and Infrastructure Analyst Day held in London, U.K., on January 27, 2026. It highlights TCS' latest announcements, strategy, capabilities, and trends regarding cloud, infrastructure, workspace, virtual client computing (VCC), partnering ecosystems, and sustainability.

Several TCS executives were present and led sessions throughout the event, including Vinay Singhvi (CEO, UK&I), Gaurav Syal (Cloud and Infrastructure Business Unit Head, UK&I and MEA), Ayan Dutta (Global Head of Cloud and Infrastructure Solutions), and Yogesh Vitavkar (Head of Cloud Transformation and Advisory Services, UK&I).

Select TCS customers participated in the event from industries including financial services and retail, while TCS was also joined by partners including Google, HPE, and Commvault.

"Cloud transformation is no longer about scale — AI-native, sovereign, and sustainable models are redefining the future of enterprise IT," said Filippo Vanara, senior research analyst, IDC's Worldwide Enterprise Client Computing Platforms.

国内パブリッククラウドサービス市場予測、2026年～2030年

Satoshi Matsumoto — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

本調査レポートは、国内パブリッククラウドサービス市場について、2026年1月下旬までに収集した情報を基に定性的かつ定量的な分析結果をまとめたものである。サービス別に市場動向を分析して2026年～2030年の市場予測を行っている。

「国内パブリッククラウドサービス市場は、レガシーシステムのクラウドマイグレーションや、AI（Artificial Intelligence）の導入などによるデジタルビジネスの拡大によって、高い成長を継続している。また、物価高、機能強化による製品／サービス単価の上昇も同市場の売上規模を押し上げる要因となっている。このような中、ユーザー企業のパブリッククラウドサービスに対する支出の拡大は、ベンダーの選定にも影響を与えている。ベンダーは、ユーザー企業のコスト最適化を盛り込んだ上で、デジタルビジネスの支援を行うことが重要となっている」と、IDC Japan、Software, Services, and IT Spendingのリサーチディレクターである松本聡は述べている。

IDC Survey Spotlight: How Much Additional Bandwidth Will AI Workloads Require for Cloud Connectivity in the Coming Year?

Brandon Butler — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights research from IDC's 2025 AI in Networking Special Report, which is a global survey of network practitioners exploring two major angles of AI in networking: networking for AI, or how network infrastructure must evolve to support AI workloads; and AI for networking, or how AI-powered capabilities are transforming the engineering and operations of the network. This IDC Survey Spotlight specifically highlights the growing bandwidth needs for enabling secure and optimized cloud-based connectivity for AI applications and data.

"In the AI era, bandwidth is rising rapidly, specifically when it comes to connectivity for cloud-based AI workloads. Organizations report an average annualized increase in bandwidth of 49% in the coming year for AI cloud connectivity, with almost 15% expecting an increase of more than 75%. IaaS cloud providers are key partners for enterprises in the AI era, serving as hubs for AI data and applications. To seize this market opportunity, enterprise networking vendors must ensure their AI strategies explicitly prioritize secure, optimized cloud/multicloud connectivity and management tailored to the demands of AI workloads," says Brandon Butler, senior research manager, Enterprise Networks.

IDC AI Infrastructure Forum 2026, Japan：AIエージェント本格運用の開始に必要な次世代データプラットフォームとは－高度化する速度／可用性／経済性の要件に備える

Yasusuke Suzuki — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

本Web Conference Proceeding: Tech Supplierは、IDC Japan、Infrastructure, Imaging, and Devicesのリサーチマネージャーである鈴木康介による講演の内容をプレゼンテーションスライドと音声ファイルによって提供するものである。

2025年秋に行われたITベンダーによる多くの発表は、AI（Artificial Intelligence）エージェントが構想や検証実験から「本番運用」フェーズへ移行が本格化する時期の到来を知らせるものとなった。自律的なAIアプリケーションが業務プロセスに組み込まれることで、その土台となるITインフラには、単なる機能実装を超えた「運用品質（SLA）」が厳しく問われることになる。ユーザーエクスペリエンスに直結する高速なレスポンス、AIが組み込まれた業務フローを止めない高可用性、そしてAIの精度を高めながらもTCO（総所有コスト）をコントロールすることは、今後のAIエージェントの業務利用の拡大に向けて、必須の経営課題となる。本講演では、AIの利用によって加速するデータ利用の進化と、ビジネスの核となるAIワークロードの安定運用（応答性／可用性／コスト／データガバナンス）をいかに両立させるか。AIエージェント時代のデータプラットフォームに求められる、インフラアーキテクチャの新たな視点と運用改革の方向性について提言する。

IDC AI Infrastructure Forum 2026, Japan：国内AIインフラ投資の現在地と将来展望－レガシーモダナイゼーションからエージェンティックAI時代へのジャーニー

Yukihisa Hode — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

本Web Conference Proceeding: Tech Buyerは、IDC Japan、Infrastructure, Imaging, and Devicesのリサーチマネージャーである宝出幸久による講演の内容をプレゼンテーションスライドと音声ファイルによって提供するものである。

国内でもAIユースケースの検証が進み、AIインフラに対する投資が拡大しつつある。しかし、レガシーシステムの残存、システムのサイロ化、運用業務の属人化といった要因が、エージェンティックAI主導の運用への変革やハイブリッドクラウドにわたる一貫性の確保を阻み、国内企業のAIインフラへの抜本的な変革の足枷となっている。本講演では、国内企業のAIインフラ投資の最新動向を分析し、「AI Pivot」、すなわちAI駆動型ビジネスへの転換に必須となるデジタルインフラ戦略を考察する。