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Japan Semiannual Server Virtualization Tracker

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IDC's Japan Semiannual Server Virtualization Tracker is designed to meet the growing demand for detailed information on server virtualization adoption in Japan. This service presents market outlook details and five-year forecasts in an easy-to-use, interactive format that allows clients to easily view specific submarkets in customizable tables. IDC's Japan Semiannual Server Virtualization Tracker products provide reliable, accurate, and independent market research as a foundation for creating quantitative market analysis and studying historical trends.

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 factory revenue.

Technologies and subtechnologies:

  • New server shipment (physical unit)
  • New server shipment virtualized (physical unit/logical unit)
  • New server factory revenue virtualized

Segmentations:

  • Server vendor: Dell, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, NEC, and others
  • CPU type: x86, RISC, EPIC, CISC
  • Rack factor: blade, rack optimized, non–rack optimized
  • Socket capability: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16+ way
  • Virtualization platform: ESX, Hyper-V, XenSource Enterprise, Virtuozzo, and more
  • Guest OS: Windows, Linux, Unix, and other

Geographic Scope


  • Japan

Forecast Coverage


Forecasts for this tracker are updated semiannually and include three years of historical data, two years of semiannually 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:

  • CPU type: x86, RISC, EPIC, CISC
  • Rack factor: blade, rack optimized, non–rack optimized
  • Socket capability: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16+ way
  • Virtualization platform: ESX, Hyper-V, XenSource Enterprise, Virtuozzo, and more
  • Guest OS: Windows, Linux, Unix, and other

Delivery Schedule and Deliverables


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

  • 1H11 Release: October 2011
  • 2H11 Release: April 2012