Mainstream adoption of server virtualization in EMEA continues to gather momentum and steadily transforms customer IT server infrastructure. EMEA IT organizations are rapidly exploiting new and emerging functions. IDC's Europe, Middle East and Africa Quarterly Server Virtualization Tracker® provides clients with the detailed information necessary to understand this evolving landscape. The core of the service is a comprehensive database detailing market sizing and changes and trends in the server virtualization market, and it serves as a fundamental tool for tracking competitors in this segment. Using our Excel pivot tables, you will be able to instantly analyze server virtualization deployment details in multiple dimensions.

Technology Coverage and Data Segmentation

This tracker provides total market size and vendor share for the following technology areas and segmentations. Measurement for this tracker is in virtualized server shipments, virtualization licenses, virtualization software revenue, and virtualized server end-user spending.

Technologies and Subtechnologies:

• Virtualized server shipments
• Virtualization software licenses

Segmentations:

• Server class: volume, midrange enterprise, high-end enterprise
• Price bands
• 35 countries
• CPU market shares: x86 (AMD, Intel), RISC, EPIC, CISC
• x86 server socket capability: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16-way+
• x86 server form factors: blade , rack-optimized, tower and density optimized
• Virtualization software vendors and products: VMware Server, VI3/ESX, vSphere Hypervisor, Citrix Xenserver. Open source Xen, Microsoft Hyper-V, Oracle VM, Red Hat KVM IBM, HP, other
• x86 server and virtualization software shipments and revenue
• Server vendors: Cisco, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Hitachi, IBM, Lenovo, NEC, Oracle, SGI

Geographic Scope

• Central and Eastern Europe (11 countries): Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Rest of Eastern Europe, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
• Middle East and Africa (8 countries): Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Rest of Africa, Rest of Middle East
• Western Europe (16 countries): Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the U.K.

Delivery Schedule and Deliverables

This tracker is delivered on a quarterly basis with tools such as pivot tables. The delivery schedule for this tracker is as follows:

• Historical data: week 13 after period closes