IDC's Worldwide Quarterly x86 Server Tracker® greatly enhances clients' ability to respond quickly and effectively to today's dynamic x86 server market. This product provides high-level insight into customer trends by delivering geography and vendor detail across all x86 server segments. This product presents market data in an easy-to-use, interactive format that allows clients to easily view specific submarkets in customizable layouts. IDC's Worldwide Quarterly x86 Server Tracker products provide reliable, accurate, and independent market research as a foundation for creating quantitative market analyses 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 unit shipments and value of shipment.

Technologies and subtechnologies:

• 100+ x86 server vendors
• Rack factor: Blade, density optimized, tower, and rack optimized
• Socket capability

Segmentations:

• Channels: Direct and indirect
• Segment: Education, government, very large business (1,000+ employees), large business (500–999 employees), medium-sized business (100–499 employees), small business (1–99 employees)

Geographic Scope

• Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) available by 14 countries
• Canada
• Central/Eastern Europe available by 14 countries
• Japan
• Latin America available by 8 countries
• Middle East/Africa available by 26 countries
• United States
• Western Europe available by 16 countries

Forecast Coverage

Forecasts for this tracker are updated quarterly and include data back to 1Q07, up to two years of quarterly forecasts, and an additional three years of annual market projections. Forecasts are available at the worldwide, regional, and country levels. Segmentations available for the forecast include:

• Segments: Education, government, very large business (1,000+ employees), large business (500–999 employees), medium-sized business (100–499 employees), small business (1–99 employees)
• Channels: Direct and indirect

Delivery Schedule and Deliverables

This tracker is delivered on a quarterly basis with tools such as Excel Pivot Tables and/or Web-based query tool. The delivery schedule for this tracker is as follows:

• Preliminary data: Week 6 after period closes
• Historical data: Week 10 after period closes
• Forecast data: Week 12 after period closes