This service delivers single-point access to analysis on the European server market. It compares and contrasts market opportunities, evolving market concepts and end-user trends, emerging technologies, and business requirements. The focus of IDC's European Datacenters and Server Infrastructures service includes themes such as converged systems, infrastructure consolidation, systems management, channel partnerships, energy efficiency, high availability, business resiliency, virtualization and cloud infrastructure, as well as datacenter transformation, datacenter optimization, and Dynamic IT.

• RISC, CISC, x86, and EPIC servers
• Datacenter and IT infrastructure transformation
• Unified computing and converged systems
• Public cloud infrastructures
• Scalable datacenter deployments
• Containerized datacenters
• Server blade and density optimized server adoption
• Hardware-attached software and services
• Server workloads, including HPC
• Server virtualization and server consolidation
• Market segment analysis and forecasts (e.g., blades, virtualization, Linux servers, high availability)
• Vendor performances, strategies, and product portfolios
• End-user trends and buying intentions
• Installed base market shares and forecast
• Emerging technologies
• Channel partnerships
• Vendor product announcements and analyst and industry event highlights
• Green strategies, green metrics

• Western European Server Forecast and Analysis, 2012–2017
• Converged System Players in the EMEA Marketplace
• The Adoption of Virtualization in Western Europe
• Quarterly server market presentations and/or workshops
• Western European Server Installed Base Market Forecast and Analysis, 2012–2017
• The Energy and Carbon Footprint of the European Server Market, 2012–2017

In addition to the insight provided in this service, IDC may conduct research on specific topics or emerging market segments via research offerings that require additional IDC funding and client investment.

1. What are the key annual market shares of server vendors by country in Western Europe?
2. Which segments of the server market are set for growth?
3. What are the end-user investment priorities in 2013?
4. What are the new disruptive technologies on the horizon?
5. How are server virtualization, server consolidation, and server blades transforming the server market?
6. What do recent acquisitions mean for vendor strategy?
7. How are server vendors addressing the European SMB market?
8. Which server vendors retain the largest installed base?

IDC's European Datacenters and Server Infrastructures service examines how server, appliance, and server-related vendors are positioning themselves to compete in the server industry. This service reviews the strategies, market positioning, and future direction of providers in this market, including:

Acer, AMD, Cisco, Dell, Fujitsu, Bull, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, IBM, Intel, Lenovo, Microsoft, NEC, Oracle, Parallels, Red Hat, SAP, SGI, Stratus, Supermicro, Symantec, Transtec, and Unisys.

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