As the adoption of virtualization software continues to remake customer environments and businesses as well as alter customer buying preferences, hardware needs, and key partners, IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Virtualization Tracker® provides clients with the detailed information necessary for navigating this evolving landscape. IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Virtualization Tracker products provide reliable, accurate, and independent market data that serves as a foundation for creating quantitative market analyses and studying historical trends. IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Virtualization Tracker consists of independent, unbiased data, updated quarterly.

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 new server shipments virtualized, virtualization licenses, virtualization software revenue, virtualized server end-user spending, and rate of virtualization.

Technologies and subtechnologies:

• CPU type: x86, RISC, EPIC, CISC
• x86 server socket capability: 1, 2+, 4+, 8+, 16+
• x86 server rack factors: Blade, rack optimized, tower, density optimized
• Primary operating systems: Windows, Linux, Unix, z/OS, and others

Segmentations:

• Virtualization platform: APV, Containers, Hyper-V, IVM, LDOM, nPar, Open Source Xen, Oracle VM, other KVM, Red Hat KVM, Virtual Iron Enterprise, Virtual Server 2005, Virtuozzo, VMware ESX, VMware Server, vPar, vSphere Hypervisor, XenServer, zVMv, others
• Server vendors: Cisco, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Hitachi, IBM, Lenovo, NEC, SGI, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, and others

Geographic Scope

• Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) available by 13 countries
• Canada
• Central/Eastern Europe available by 11 countries
• Japan
• Latin America available by 8 countries
• Middle East/Africa available by 8 countries
• The United States
• Western Europe available by 16 countries

Delivery Schedule and Deliverables

This tracker is delivered on a quarterly basis via Excel pivot tables. The delivery schedule for this tracker is as follows:

• Historical data: Week 13 after period closes.
• With the purchase of IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Virtualization Tracker, clients receive trend explanations and detailed insights, one day of onsite training at any location in the United States, and inquiry time for supporting questions regarding data usage.
• Written analyses, trend explanations, and insights are further provided in research from IDC's Enterprise Servers: Technology Markets and Datacenter Trends and Strategies continuous intelligence services (CISs).