IDC Tracker

IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker® greatly enhances clients' ability to size critical components of the integrated systems market as a foundation for creating quantitative market analyses and studying historical trends. At a broad level, integrated systems represent a competitive market based on elements from several of IDC's existing trackers. This tracker focuses on systems that have been designed, certified, and branded by technology vendors. Systems designed and implemented by partners through their own initiative are not counted. Systems certified by a technology vendor after a partner-initiated design and deployment are also excluded if they are not vendor-branded integrated.

Technology Coverage

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This tracker provides total market size and vendor share, in addition to a five-year forecast, for the following technology areas.

Historical Data Core Coverage

Systems View:

• Company, vendor, brand, and product brand
• Product category: Certified reference systems and integrated infrastructure, integrated platforms, and hyperconverged systems
• Measurements: Units, terabytes, vendor revenue, and value

Component-Level View:

• Company, vendor, brand, and product brand
• Product category: Certified reference systems and integrated infrastructure, integrated platforms, and hyperconverged systems
• Component vendor
• HCI software vendor
• Solution type: HCI appliance + rackscale and HCI software + certified server
• Integrated components: Server, storage, network, system infrastructure software, applications, hyperconverged software, and hyperconverged hardware
• Measurements: Vendor revenue and value

Forecast Data Core Coverage

Forecast View:

• Product category: Certified reference systems and integrated infrastructure, integrated platforms, and hyperconverged systems
• Integrated components: Server, storage, network, system infrastructure software, applications, hyperconverged software, and hyperconverged hardware
• Solution type: HCI appliance + rackscale and HCI software + certified server
• Measurements: Value

Geographic Scope

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• Asia/Pacific excluding Japan and China (12): Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, and rest of Asia/Pacific
• Canada
• Central and Eastern Europe (2): Poland, Russia, and rest of CEE
• Japan
• Latin America (5): Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and rest of Latin America
• Middle East and Africa (5): Israel, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and rest of Middle East, and rest of Africa
• PRC
• United States
• Western Europe (16): Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom

Data Deliverables

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This tracker is delivered on a quarterly basis via a web-based interface for online querying and downloads. The following are the deliverables for this tracker. For a complete delivery schedule, please contact an IDC sales representative.

• Quarterly data files
• Historical data
• Five-year forecast data (eight quarters and three years)
• Excel pivot table and query tool