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Trends we’re watching in 2026:
- Customer experience becomes the battleground of AI for growth
- Data as the new (old) currency
- How vendor portfolio offerings evolve to avoid the GIGO (garbage-in-garbage-out) effect when on clients’ site
- Discretionary spend takes a new shape as IT buyers continue to shoulder more risk than the business, presenting an opportunity for vendors to deliver on service-level outcomes enabled by agents
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The Fragmentation of AI Infrastructure: 3 Forces Reshaping the Market
/by Ben Carbonneau, Senior Data AnalystAs divides deepen, the AI infrastructure market is effectively splitting into distinct segments with different buyers, economics and competitive dynamics. Vendors and customers that continue to treat AI infrastructure as a single, homogeneous market risk misallocating capital, overestimating growth opportunities and underestimating emerging competitive threats.
Next 2026: Lakehouse and Agentic PaaS Push Google Cloud Closer to the Center of AI Value Creation
/by Catie Merrill, Senior AnalystAll hyperscalers tout themselves as “full-stack” to a degree, but Google Cloud’s distinct advantage is that it owns a leading frontier model, Gemini. Having Gemini deeply embedded throughout the portfolio creates a powerful flywheel effect that lets Google Cloud monetize AI in ways others cannot. At the same time, the value is shifting from the AI models themselves to how those models work with a growing set of tools and data to create value. From a repackaged PaaS layer to a revamped data stack, announcements at Google Cloud Next 2026 reinforce that this will be the company’s next chapter.