Partners Share Insights on Tech to Watch in 2026
Artificial intelligence, sovereignty, and security are expected to dominate the tech landscape as partners help customers drive real-world transformation through innovation.
In 2026, technology will be a key driver of disruption, innovation, and risk, and partners must assist customers in harnessing its potential as a catalyst for transformation.
According to Gartner, several strategic technology trends will shape the next phase of transformation, and local industry leaders shared their expectations with CRN Australia.
- Domain-specific large models (DSLMs) trained on specialized data will become more common, offering higher accuracy, lower costs, and better compliance.
“To build these models, organisations require access to high-performance, interconnected infrastructure,”
says Guy Danskine, MD of Equinix Australia, highlighting the importance of local data centres in enabling sovereign, scalable compute, and creating unique competitive value through proprietary data.
Author's summary: Partners predict AI and security will dominate tech in 2026.