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[IDC @IDC]

The Middle East war didn't just test business continuity plans. It broke them. Drone strikes on data centers, more than 800,000 cyberattacks per day, and physical and cyber threats arriving at once.

IDC's Shilpi Handa discusses what the new resilience mandate looks like and why organizations that adapt early will be the ones to weather the storm.

🔎 https://t.co/JhiOuXInxW

#BusinessContinuity #CyberResilience #META #IDCResearch

[IDC @IDC]

70% of B2B buyers self-qualify with AI before they talk to sales.

They arrive ready to decide. Your qualification process filters them out anyway.

IDC's Heather Hershey: "The funnel isn't filtering for quality. It's filtering for patience. And your best buyers have none."

Get the full breakdown and on-demand panel today: https://t.co/5f9tE8ASYD

#IDCResearch #B2BSales #RevenueOperations #PipelineConversion

[IDC @IDC]

AI adoption is moving faster than enterprise security can follow. That gap has consequences.

The democratization of AI compute has changed what your security posture needs to cover. Most organizations are still working out where the new perimeter is.

IDC's analysts have mapped it.

Four experts. One session. Register before your 2H decisions get made without this. 🔗 https://t.co/jiGDFAygzF

#AIWebinarSeries #IDCResearch #AISecurity

[IDC @IDC]

Your buyers are doing their research before you ever enter the conversation.

AI is now the filter between your content and your credibility, and most brands don't know where they stand in that equation. Being a recognized source of insight used to be a long-term brand play. In an AI-mediated buying journey, it's a near-term revenue variable.

The brands getting this right aren't producing more content. They're producing the right kind.

See how IDC builds that credibility for you 👇
https://t.co/NAQx8d1Vk6

#IDCResearch #BusinessValue #CredibleInsights

[IDC @IDC]

The belief that fast AI answers can't be trustworthy ones has become a governing assumption for most technology organizations.

But it doesn't have to be that way. Find out how you can get both speed and quality.

🔎 https://t.co/ZUrCgkQL7P

#AIResearch #TrustedAI #IDCQuanta #IDCResearch

[IDC @IDC]

Apple Park. June 8. Three IDC analysts with opinions.

Tom Mainelli, Nabila Popal, and Francisco Jeronimo will be on the ground at WWDC26, watching every announcement and telling you what's worth your attention.

Follow along. The Hot Takes won't wait. 🔥

📍 WWDC26 | Apple Park, CA | June 8, 2026

#IDCHotTakes #IDCResearch #AppleWWDC26

[IDC @IDC]

Most technology benchmarks weren't built for a company like The Resorts Companies. Too complex for one industry, too niche for another.

Phillip Langeberg, CTO, needed a perspective that could meet him where he actually was. This is how he found it. 🔗 https://t.co/nfMS5zgvBM

#ITStrategy #TechLeadership #IDCResearch #IDCQuanta

[IDC @IDC]

Geopolitical risk just became a line item in your IT budget.

The US-Iran war is reshaping enterprise tech spend in real time including logistics costs, memory pricing, and supply chain exposure. The organizations revising their 2H plans now are the ones that will spend smarter. The ones waiting are building their budgets on yesterday's assumptions.

IDC's analysts have the updated forecast. June 4 is when they share it.

🔗 Reserve your seat today: https://t.co/fW54O9tjjH

#IDCResearch #IranWar #ITSpending #2HPlanning

[IDC @IDC]

Frontier AI companies now compete on compute access as much as model quality. Anthropic's deal with SpaceXAI makes that impossible to ignore.

300+ megawatts.
~220,000 NVIDIA GPUs.
Dedicated capacity that conventional clouds contracts cannot replicate.

And a clear signal: as agentic workflows compound inference volume, whoever controls the capacity controls the product quality ceiling.

Learn more from IDC Research Vice President of Software Development, Arnal Dayaratna 🔗 https://t.co/0SQS68oCPl

#FrontierAI #EnterpriseAI #Anthropic #IDCResearch

[IDC @IDC]

Fewer phones. Higher prices. Longer upgrade cycles. 2026 is the year the smartphone industry's cost assumptions stopped working.

Memory constraints plus US-Iran logistics pressure pushed ASP to a record $550 and shipments to their steepest decline in history. This isn't a down cycle. It's a structural reset.

Get the full breakdown from IDC's Nabila Popal and Francisco Jeronimo 🔗 https://t.co/0jR97efcvV

#IDCResearch #WorldwideSmartphone #SmartphoneMarket

[IDC @IDC]

The next trillion-dollar tech opportunity is taking shape. Agentic AI is moving from experimentation to enterprise reality. And every company now claims to be an AI company.

IDC is in Boston this Thursday to cut through all of it. Join us for an afternoon of expert briefings and sharp analysis as part of Boston Tech Week.

We hope to see you there. 📍https://t.co/YMFmwBjvMF

#BostonTechWeek #AgenticAI #AIStrategy #IDCResearch

[IDC @IDC]

Your AI strategy has a security problem. Most do.

The democratization of AI compute has redrawn the enterprise risk perimeter — and most security frameworks haven't caught up. Identity, data governance, and regulatory exposure are all in play. The organizations that scale AI confidently are the ones that solve this now.

Four IDC analysts. One live session. The practical framework you need.

📅 Wednesday, June 17
🔗 Register today: https://t.co/jiGDFAygzF

#IDCResearch #AgenticEnterprise #AISecurity

[IDC @IDC]

Google I/O 2026 just wrapped and the device story is bigger than most expected. Android XR glasses, a new Googlebooks category, and Gemini Intelligence woven through all of it.

IDC's devices analysts were on the ground. Here's what they saw and what it means for enterprise buyers. 👉 https://t.co/brMoE8OkpO

#GoogleIO #AndroidXR #GeminiAI #IDCResearch

[IDC @IDC]

Enterprise software has always been built for humans at a keyboard. That assumption is collapsing. AI agents are becoming the primary users, and they don't care about your UI.

They need data access, API depth, and integration reliability.

IDC's Eric Newmark analyzes how enterprise software is evolving, and who it's evolving for.
🔗 https://t.co/EhMuS6CcYB

#AgenticAI #EnterpriseSoftware #AIStrategy #IDCResearch

[IDC @IDC]

Boston Tech Week is one week away.

IDC is hosting a session for technology and business leaders who want grounded, research-backed perspective on navigating the AI economy.

Not trend forecasting.
Not hype.
Analyst intelligence built for the decisions you are actually making right now.

Free to attend and open to the full Boston tech community.

👉 Register here: https://t.co/YMFmwBjvMF

#BostonTechWeek #TechStrategy #IDCResearch

[IDC @IDC]

Deploying agentic AI is the easy part. Keeping up with what it demands from your organization is not.

IDC's Stephen Elliot asks the question a lot of leaders are wresting with right now.

👉 Watch the clip: https://t.co/SKppSN6ruz

#IDCResearch #AIStrategy #TalentStrategy

[IDC @IDC]

Anthropic has reportedly secured 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs and 300+ megawatts of capacity through SpaceX's AI infrastructure. For a frontier AI lab, that kind of compute access changes the competitive picture significantly.

For enterprise customers who have experienced Claude reliability issues, it also signals a more credible path forward on infrastructure resilience.

IDC's Arnal Dayaratna breaks down what this means for the frontier AI landscape.
👉 https://t.co/0SQS68oCPl

#FrontierAI #EnterpriseAI #Anthropic #IDCResearch

[IDC @IDC]

Most organizations are focused on deploying agentic AI. Fewer are asking whether their workforce has the judgment to work alongside it effectively.

IDC's Gina Smith, PhD has built a framework around exactly that question: 8 trainable human capability clusters that determine whether your people can actually collaborate with agentic AI in a way that produces better decisions, not just faster ones.

If workforce strategy is on your agenda, this is where to start. 🔗 https://t.co/f1RzRDhAsu

#AgenticAI #WorkforceStrategy #HumanSkills #IDCResearch

[IDC @IDC]

IDC has been tracking six direct IT impact vectors since the Middle East conflict escalated. A lot has changed since the first briefing, and EMEA organizations are navigating the sharpest end of that exposure.

IDC's Stephen Minton and Harish Dunake return with a fully updated economic and IT impact assessment designed for EMEA leaders. Energy cost volatility, cloud resilience gaps, supply chain pressure, and where investment is still moving forward. 60 minutes, including live Q&A.

If you are shaping technology or business strategy in EMEA for the second half of 2026, this is the session to attend.

👉 Register here: https://t.co/3dHj5hccT7
📆 May 20, 2026

#MiddleEastWar #ITImpact #IDCAnalysis

[IDC @IDC]

$1.6 trillion. That's what three decades of labor arbitrage built.

Agentic AI is replacing the economics behind that model. Service providers that wait to adapt won't be disrupted slowly. They'll find themselves bidding on work that's already been automated, productized, or captured by AI-native competitors.

In her latest IDC blog, Dina Capelle maps the three waves of IT services evolution and explains why this one lands differently than the last two.

👉 https://t.co/cvSR9BVyV8

#AgenticAI #ITServices #AIStrategy #FutureOfIT