IDC Research Types
Analyst
Analyst Profile
Provides complete background information on an IDC analyst. Each profile provides a biography, a notable quotation, a frequently asked question relevant to the particular analyst's focus, and a list of research authored by that analyst.
Team Profile
Lists the analyst members of a topical team. Outlines general areas of coverage and any specialties.
Briefs
Vendor Profile
Provides a concise, hard-hitting profile of an emerging vendor. A profile will highlight new players and technologies and the potential paradigm shifts or disruptions a vendor represents.
IDC Perspective
The IDC Perspective is a flexible doc that seeks to help business and tech buyers assess their business and IT strategy and/or associated business processes, especially as it relates to the use of technology. The document can be used in areas such as:
- Strategy and planning
- Trends and observations
- IT spending and investment
- Vendor conferences and announcements
IDC TechBrief
The IDC TechBrief helps the technology or business executive get smart about a single technology in the context of the business by answering 6 business critical questions about the technology:
- What is the technology?
- When should I adopt it?
- What can it do for my business?
- What are the critical success factors?
- What are the risks?
- Who are the suppliers?
Market Note
The Market Note is a flexible doc that provides IDC analysis and point of view on an industry event, new product or service, or a company announcement or development or fast breaking news.
Market Perspective
The Market Perspective is a flexible doc that analyzes key changes and developments happening in the market. This flexible research type can be used to analyze areas such as:
- Competitive Environment
- Innovation & Market Opportunity
- New Business Models
- Partner & Channel Strategy
- Enterprise Strategies (targeted to supplier)
- Regulation
- Socioeconomics
Event Proceedings
Event Proceeding
Provides published slides, audio, and other materials from IDC and Insights Web conferences, briefings, forums, or other events.
Events
Conference
Delivers dependable, relevant, and high-impact data and insight to help organizations make sound business and technology decisions. eBusiness executives, IT professionals, IT suppliers, and services suppliers benefit from the strategic insight and networking opportunities IDC conferences offer. Generally, all presentation slides are available online, and for most conferences, streaming audio of key discussions is available as well.
Web Conference
Focuses on significant trends and paradigm shifts. Each Web conference will provide attendees with leading-edge market information that will enable them to make smart business decisions. For those unable to attend in person or those wishing to review the content presented, these synchronized multimedia presentations are available online.
IDC DecisionScapes
IDC FutureScape
Serves as a framework for IT/tech professionals' IT strategy and planning for the next one to three years. It lists IDC's top 10 worldwide technology trends for the coming one to three years in a given research area and includes related drivers, projected IT/business strategy impact, and guidance.
IDC MarketScape
Helps IT/tech professionals develop a short list of suitable suppliers when selecting a vendor. Provides an unbiased assessment of tech suppliers in terms of offerings, strategy, capabilities, and other important factors in a given technology area.
IDC MaturityScape
Describes five stages of "maturity" or capability for a particular technology area, helps IT/tech professionals understand where their organizations fit within those stages, and provides guidance on key components for planning successful improvements to a tech initiative.
IDC MaturityScape Benchmark
Helps IT/tech professionals to benchmark their maturity against peers, develop a business case for a tech initiative, and build consensus about where critical IT investments should be made. Presents quantitative research results that show the market distribution for a given tech initiative across the five stages of maturity presented in the related IDC MaturityScape. Shows the results and components of particularly successful initiatives.
IDC PeerScape
Gives IT/tech professionals insight into best practices (and practices to avoid) by providing specific use case examples implemented by peers. Identifies practices that have the most impact on the success of a tech or business initiative, and provides actionable guidance for each practice.
IDC PlanScape
Helps IT/tech professionals to justify and plan a business and/or technology investment or opportunity by exploring why, what, who, and how (these are also the main section headings). Presents key players, critical success factors, risks, and actions to consider for a designated technology and/or business management area.
IDC TechScape
Helps IT/tech professionals with developing IT strategic plans and evaluating emerging technologies in terms of their risk to the business. Shows the adoption curve and risk levels over time for a specific emerging technology. Sorts technologies into three "adoption model" categories (transformational, incremental, opportunistic) to help tech leaders determine the potential impact for their organization.
IDC Links
IDC Link
Provides timely context and insight around important market trends and events in a short opinion piece. IDC Links provide IDC's point of view on:
- Financial announcements
- Product announcements
- Mergers and acquisitions or divestitures
- Events
- Response to news
IDC Blink
IDC Blink
Provides timely context and insight around important market trends and events in a short opinion piece with a 2-minute audio clip. IDC Blinks provide IDC's point of view on:
- Financial announcements
- Product announcements
- Mergers and acquisitions or divestitures
- Events
- Response to news
Pivot Tables
Pivot Table
Presents an interactive spreadsheet tool for analyzing trends and activities in a specific market segment. These tables are available only through an annual subscription service.
Presentations
IDC Survey
Presents a hypothesis about what is happening in the market backed by the results of a demand-side or supply-side survey. The focus is on interpreting and analyzing the survey results and providing a strong point of view along with actionable advice.
IDC Survey Spotlight
Answers a timely question and provides a strong opinion backed by IDC survey data. This is a quick nugget of information that is presented in two concise PowerPoint slides.
Market Presentation
Provides an easy-to-use format to post on the Web presentations that were previously delivered at public forums (such as conferences and events) or for internal client meetings and client presentations. It may not come as part of a consulting/custom engagement.
Market Analysis Perspective
Delivers a concise current state view of a market and insight into the impact of future trends. Business executives, product managers, and MI/AR professionals can use this information when looking to understand buyers' perspectives and market impacts.
Tech Buyer Presentation
Provides an easy-to-use format to post on the Web presentations that were previously delivered at public forums (such as conferences and events) or for internal client meetings and client presentations. It may not come as part of a consulting/custom engagement.
IDC Market Glance
Provides a look at the landscape of a tech market, including competitive positioning, adjacent segments, and potential partner opportunities.
Press Releases
Press Release
Announces significant corporate news, such as key hirings or promotions, performance milestones, event highlights, or speaking engagements.
Product Information
Fact Sheet
Describes a research product. Usually details the major areas of coverage and deliverables, and outlines key questions and competitive market conditions that the research will address. Includes links to all published research for a research product.
Studies
Industry Developments and Models
Provides a detailed assessment of a specific target market's expansion pattern. This analysis helps clients develop and deploy the right mix of value-add products, programs, or services to support their sales and/or partnering efforts.
Market Forecast
Provides the future of a single market or a group of related markets. It presents a new or updated market forecast, including key drivers and assumptions used in the forecast.
Market Share
Provides data on market size, regional allocations, and platform splits as well as a summary of vendor shares for the most recently completed period (year, quarter).
Special Study
Provides a one-time study produced by a research group that is not published as a deliverable under a subscription service.
Taxonomy
Highlights and emphasizes how IDC tracks the market while also making it easier for customers to find and identify IDC Taxonomy documents.
Technology Assessment
Provides an analysis of the intricacies of an emerging or established technology or the technologies contained within a specific product.
IDC Innovators
IDC Innovators is aimed at informing IT buyers about emerging vendors with an innovative new technology or ground-breaking business model. Vendors identified in the document as innovators are linked together within a specific market area and around solving or alleviating a common business problem. Vendors included have annual revenue under $100 million at the time of selection.
Technology Segment
The IDC Technology Segment offers CEMA clients a comprehensive view of a technology segment in one country or subregion and provides a market view and forecast and/or market share and vendor profiles, including performances and strategies. It is specifically intended to serve smaller country markets and subregions.
This IDC study, which presents IDC's current taxonomy for the enterprise storage systems market, should serve as a guide for the existing base of enterprise storage research and for the planned base of IDC hardware research. IDC expects ...
IDC最新发布的《中国数据中心IT基础架构产品解读,2021H2》(2022年6月发布)报告显示,2021年全年,中国数据中心IT基础架构(包括服务器、外置存储和数据中心网络设备)市场规模达到348.2亿美元,同比增长16.3%,其中,服务器市场规模达到264.1亿美元,同比增长15.2%;外置存储市场规模达到60.5亿美元,同比增长25.3%;数据中心网络设备市场规模达到23.6亿美元,同比增长7.4%。此报告以2021年第一季度到第四季度的数据为基础,主要介绍了中国数据中心IT基础架构整体市场规模、未来五年市场规模预测、竞争分析和行业分析。同时,从市场规模、未来五年市场规模预测、竞争分析、行业趋势、市场热点等角度对服务器、外置存储和数据中心网络设备三个产品展开分析,并详细解读中国数据中心IT基础架构市场的发展进程和未来发展趋势。
...IDC发布的《中国数据中心IT基础架构市场份额,22H1》报告显示,2022年上半年,全球数据中心IT基础架构产品市场(包括服务器、外置存储和数据中心网络设备)规模达到793.2亿美元,同比增长17.9%。其中,服务器市场规模达到575.9亿美元,同比增长20.7%;外置存储市场规模达到143.1亿美元,同比上升5.3%;数据中心网络设备市场规模达到74.3亿美元,同比上升8.5%。此报告以2022年上半年的数据为基础,主要提供了全球及中国数据中心IT基础架构市场规模、中国数据中心IT基础架构市场竞争分析和行业分析,并详细解读了中国数据中心IT基础架构市场的发展进程和未来发展趋势。
...2021年,中国软件定义存储(SDS)及超融合存储(HCI)系统市场增长呈现积极态势,尤其是SDS产品,2021年同比增长分别为45.5%和41.1%。SDS和HCI系统推动中国企业级外置存储市场同比增长25.2%。
目前,从硬件组件的角度来看,SDS和HCI硬件占据了整个市场的近48%。2021年,排名前三的企业级外置存储市场技术提供商出货近54%的SDS和HCI产品,其他厂商也在专注于开发基于SDS和HCI系统的产品。
在电信和制造业,SDS产品市场需求有望继续增长,支持通信行业和制造业的诸多新在线工作负载,为边缘计算工作负载(如环境监测或制造设计等)中的非结构化数据捕获和分析提供支撑。在政策引导下,金融和医疗行业加大了HCI产品的采购力度,以支持业务上云。
...在经历了后疫情时代的低迷之后,2021年全球企业级外置存储市场的收入保持健康增长,同比增长率达到6.9%,总收入达到293亿美元。
多样化的产品和个性化的应用场景为中国企业级外置存储市场的增长做出了贡献。
软件定义存储硬件子市场同比增长约36%,市场份额上升至23.8%;超融合产品子市场占有率升至20.6%,同比增长43%;数据备份与恢复硬件受到政府、金融等行业的青睐,2021年同比增长近35%。
从行业角度看,2021年服务、医疗、金融等行业呈现增长态势。在Filecoin、Chia和BZZ等数字货币挖矿项目的推动下,2021年上半年IT服务同比增长超过100%,这也导致了存储组件供应短缺;银行再次意识到在线业务的重要性,并加大采购以支持在线业务;“区域医疗”政策促进了医疗行业线上医疗的发展,触发了存储产品采购潮:智能矿业、智慧水资源项目等能源、公用事业行业也加大了存储产品的采购力度。
...在经历了后疫情时代的低迷之后,2021年全球企业级外置存储市场的收入保持健康增长,同比增长率达到6.9%,总收入达到293亿美元。
多样化的产品和个性化的应用场景为中国企业级外置存储市场的增长做出了贡献。
软件定义存储硬件子市场同比增长约36%,市场份额上升至23.8%;超融合产品子市场占有率升至20.6%,同比增长43%;数据备份与恢复硬件受到政府、金融等行业的青睐,2021年同比增长近35%。
从行业角度看,2021年服务、医疗、金融等行业呈现增长态势。在Filecoin、Chia和BZZ等数字货币挖矿项目的推动下,2021年上半年IT服务同比增长超过100%,这也导致了存储组件供应短缺;银行再次意识到在线业务的重要性,并加大采购以支持在线业务;“区域医疗”政策促进了医疗行业线上医疗的发展,触发了存储产品采购潮;智能矿业、智慧水资源项目等能源、公用事业行业也加大了存储产品的采购力度。
...2021年,中国软件定义存储(SDS)及超融合存储(HCI)系统市场增长呈现积极态势,尤其是SDS产品,2021年同比增长分别为45.5%和41.1%。
在电信和制造业,SDS产品市场需求有望继续增长,支持通信行业和制造业的诸多新在线工作负载,为边缘计算工作负载(如环境监测或制造设计等)中的非结构化数据捕获和分析提供支撑。由于能源、交通、制造等传统行业将部署更多边缘工作负载,未来几年,SDS仍将保持稳健增长。金融、医疗等传统行业早已为云平台应用制定了KPI。
疫情期间,网络会议、在线教育、协同、电子商务、电视直播等业务蓬勃发展,受互联网公司和云服务提供商的需求增加,HCI一体机市场在2021年第四季度实现了30.4%的高速增长。金融、医疗等传统行业早已为云平台应用制定了KPI;政府在疫情延期后开始恢复采购政务云,推动HCI在未来几年保持强劲增长。
...IDC定义下的副本数据管理是用于管理控制、监测复制软件所拷贝时间点的数据软件,它可以自动执行各种复制任务,如同步、分割和装载。CDM产品从属于“复制管理软件”子市场,可以优化数据副本数量,满足用户的多种场景需求。本IDC研究报告主要阐述了2021年中国CDM产品市场的规模、厂商份额、技术发展变化等内容。
“数据备份以及副本数据管理除了面临多冗余、成本高的问题之外,还存在着诸如速度慢、效率差、安全性差、管理难等问题。企业不仅需要满足为不同环境快速交付数据的需求,还必须通过集中管控和数据脱敏等技术,防范数据泄露和安全风险。如何在保持业务在线和数据一致性的同时,实现数据的安全备份、有效管理和利用是数据复制与保护的进阶目标,也是CDM解决方案落地的实际价值。” ...
IDC 创新者是指年营业额低于$100M、有创新性技术或突破性商业模式的新兴厂商。以下是IDC 针对广州鼎甲计算机科技有限公司、上海英方软件股份有限公司、南京云信达科技有限公司的研究概述(排名不分先后)。
“数据可用性、业务连续性已经成为企业和组织机构竞争能力的重要指标。目前的数据复制与保护市场新的产品和解决方案层出不穷,在文件备份和数据库备份领域都有新的技术被应用,企业和组织机构如何建立完善的备份系统,如何制定备份进度和选择适当的备份设备和软件成为亟待解决的问题。企业数据安全‘最后一道防线’需要数据复制与保护技术供应商进一步缩小与全球的技术差异,深入用户场景,为最终用户提供全生态的数据复制与保护解决方案。”——IDC中国企业级研究部杨昀煦表示。
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