IDC's Japan Quarterly Server Forecast service greatly enhances a client’s ability to quickly and effectively respond to today's server market. Clients are provided with a foundation of market and technology assumptions to understand the factors that drive marketplace expectations. Understanding how the Japan market and segments are changing and assessing the quarterly adoption curve for new products are business-critical requirements. This product provides insight into customer trends by delivering Japan-specific detail across all server segments and presents market data in an easy-to-use, interactive format that allows any submarket to be viewed in customizable tables.

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 shipments and end-user, factory revenue.

Technologies and subtechnologies:

• Server type: x86 server, IA64 server, RISC server, mainframe, etc.
• Forecast for unit shipment and factory revenue for next five years
• CPU type: x86, EPIC, RISC, CISC
• Historical data starts from year 2003

Segmentations:

• Server virtualization (add on): Server shipment virtualized, both physical and logical unit
• Vertical markets (add on): Manufacturing, retail/wholesale, banking, and so forth
• Socket capability: 1, 2+, 4+, 8+, 16+, 32+, 64+
• Server class: Volume, midrange enterprise, high-end enterprise
• Form factor: Tower, rack optimized, blade, density optimized
• Operation system: Windows, Linux, Unix, z/OS, i5/OS, and others

Geographic Scope

• Japan

Forecast Coverage

Forecasts for this tracker are updated quarterly and include nine years of historical data, two years of quarterly forecasts, and an additional three years of annual market projections. Forecasts are available at the country level. Examples of the segmentations being forecast in this tracker include:

• Time frame covered: Five-year forecast with two years of quarterly and three years of annual
• CPU type: x86, EPIC, RISC, CISC
• Socket capability: 1, 2+, 4+, 8+, 16+, 32+, 64+
• Form factor: Tower, rack optimized, blade, density optimized
• OS: Windows, Unix, Linux, z/OS, i5/OS, and others
• Server class: Volume, midrange enterprise, high-end enterprise

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:

• Forecast data: Week 11 or 12 after period closes