The enterprise worldwide wireless local area network (WLAN) market grew 13.2% in the second quarter of 2025 (2Q25) compared to 2Q24 to reach $2.6 billion, building on the market’s growth momentum from the previous quarter, according to results published in the International Data Corporation ( IDC) Worldwide Quarterly WLAN Tracker.

Border security sits at the intersection of policy, technology, and public trust. Agencies face an unrelenting flow of structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data — from shipping manifests and sensor feeds to social media intelligence — while operating under intense scrutiny. Traditional, siloed approaches to analysis cannot keep pace with the scale, diversity, and velocity of information.

IDC, Unified AI & Agentic AI Platforms in Asia: Solution Insights for Technology Leaders , finds that ongoing market uncertainty is pushing Asia/Pacific organizations to prioritize enterprise-wide efficiency and favor platform-based approaches to AI. IDC data shows that, on average, only 23% of AI apps have gone from proof of concept (PoC) to production for Asia/Pacific. As AI capabilities evolve rapidly and more providers launch end-to-end platforms, selecting the right AI platform requires a clear view of each vendor’s approach and how well the system aligns with current and future requirements.

Marketing leaders are entering an era where ambition and architecture are colliding. Artificial intelligence is forcing a new level of transparency inside the marketing technology stack — revealing how years of rapid digital investment have left many organizations with systems that are powerful in isolation but fragile in combination. For Tony Byrne, founder and CEO of The Real Story Group, this moment represents a turning point: AI isn’t simply adding capability to marketing, it’s demanding coherence.

U.S. border security agencies are under pressure to adapt to a new intelligence reality: an environment where data volumes are exploding, threats are increasingly sophisticated, and public expectations demand both security and accountability. According to Zach Beus, national security lead at i2 Group, a Harris Computer company, the solution lies in harnessing artificial intelligence, data integration, and shared analytic standards to shift from reactive to proactive operations.

The worldwide Ethernet switch market recorded $14.5 billion in revenue in the second quarter of 2025 (2Q25), a 42.1% year-over-year (YoY) increase, fueled by strong growth in the datacenter portion of the market as hyperscalers and cloud service providers race to build infrastructure capacity for the AI era. The total worldwide enterprise and service provider (SP) router market increased 12.5% YoY to $3.6B in 2Q25. These findings are detailed in the latest editions of the International Data Corporation ( IDC) Quarterly Ethernet Switch Tracker and IDC Quarterly Router Tracker.

Seventy percent of large-scale organizations will adopt AI-based forecasting to predict future demand by 2030, according to Gartner, Inc., a business technology and insights company.

Achieving touchless forecasting that eliminates the need for frequent manual inputs and regular human interventions provides a unique scalable automation opportunity within demand planning.

Gartner predicts that by 2030, over 80% of enterprises will deploy industry-specific AI agents in support of critical business objectives, up from less than 10% today, and more than 60% will conduct intensive AI model activity across multiple clouds.

Artificial intelligence is rewriting the rules of enterprise connectivity. What began as a wave of automation and analytics has become a test of structural integrity: Can the network handle the complexity and velocity of AI-driven operations without breaking under its own weight?

After a decade of nonstop investment in digital platforms, marketers are discovering that technology itself has become their biggest problem. The sprawling marketing technology stack—meant to integrate channels, data, and creative workflows—has morphed into an expensive patchwork of disconnected systems.

The speed of AI adoption has upended long-held assumptions about enterprise infrastructure. What once functioned as a passive transport layer is now a dynamic, decision-making environment that determines how securely and efficiently organizations can train models, move data, and deliver insight at scale. 

i2 Group today announced record-setting results for its fiscal year, highlighted by a 40% year-on-year increase in bookings and continued double-digit organic growth across all business segments. The surge reflects rising global demand for sophisticated intelligence and investigative analysis solutions that help organizations identify and pursue bad actors threatening national and international security.

By 2030, preemptive cybersecurity solutions will account for 50% of IT security spending, up from less than 5% in 2024, replacing standalone detection and response (DR) solutions as the preferred approach to defend against cyberthreats, according to Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company.

The ISG Buyers Guides for Contact Centers, produced by ISG Software Research, provide the rankings and ratings of 40 software providers across four software categories and three vertical industries, assessing products that support automated and intelligent contact centers. The research finds that many enterprises are overhauling contact centers that have remained largely unchanged for decades.

Worldwide smartphone shipments are forecast to grow 1.0% year-on-year (YoY) in 2025 to 1.24 billion units, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. This represents an improvement from the previous forecast of 0.6%, driven by 3.9% growth in iOS this year.

The ISG State of the Agentic AI Market report says enterprises must overcome two foundational constraints to enterprise-wide AI value realization: data that is unfit for dynamic decisioning, and operating models that were not designed for the decision velocity of an AI-driven enterprise. Organizations need to redesign critical processes, rethink how tasks are done and change the way data is incorporated into workflows.

Cloud Adoption Trends in Asia/Pacific — Industry View, shows enterprises across Banking, Financial Services and Insurance, Manufacturing, Retail, and Healthcare accelerating cloud adoption to meet business, technology, and regulatory demands.

Worldwide spending on AI is forecast to total nearly $1.5 trillion in 2025 according to Gartner, Inc. a business and technology insights company. "The forecast assumes continued investment in AI infrastructure expansion, as major hyperscalers continue to increase investments in data centers with AI-optimized hardware and GPUs to scale their services,” said John-David Lovelock, Distinguished VP Analyst at Gartner.

The global smart vacuum market recorded shipments of 6.17 million units in the second quarter of 2025, reflecting a 20.5% year-over-year increase, according to the latest data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Smart Home Device Tracker.

The 2025 ISG Provider LensPrivate/Hybrid Cloud — Data Center Services report for France finds that growing enterprise investment in AI-ready infrastructure is reshaping the country’s hybrid cloud market. Companies are adopting sovereign cloud solutions and high-performance data centers to comply with regulations, optimize AI operations and become more sustainable.