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Manufacturing
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Matthew Eastwood
Group Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise Platforms

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Jean S. Bozman
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Vernon Turner
Senior Vice President of IDC's Enterprise Infrastructure, Consumer, Network, Telecom and Sustainability Research

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Frank Gens
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Henry D. Morris
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Dynamic IT

ONGOING ANALYSIS

Utility computing, adaptive enterprise and on demand are terms being used by IT suppliers to explain part of their unique market solutions, but what does it all mean? Through its Dynamic IT portfolio, IDC examines this question by focusing on the shifting demands on IT environments from both a technology and a business capability perspective.

SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES

IDC covers this market in numerous subscription services, including:

Application Development and Deployment and Cloud Services

Application Development Software

Application Development, Testing and Management Services

Cloud and Virtualization System Software

Cloud Services: The Professional Services Opportunity

Datacenter Networks

Enterprise Applications

Enterprise Communications Infrastructure

Enterprise Servers: Technology Markets

Enterprise System Management Software

Enterprise Systems and Servers Consulting

Outsourcing and the Impact of Cloud Services

Pricing Evaluation Service: Enterprise Computing

SaaS and Cloud Software

Software Licensing and Provisioning

Worldwide Software Market Forecaster

x Service Providers (xSPs)

More Information

Heather Karki Product Manager, Enterprise Computing hkarki@idc.com (508) 988-6753

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