IDC's Network Life-Cycle and Infrastructure Services provides strategic customer insights, competitive market share analysis, vendor profiles, and in-depth market forecasts for both the enterprise and the service provider markets for consulting and integration. Leveraging ongoing interactions with customers, vendors, systems integrators, channel partners, and service providers, this program analyzes professional services opportunities.
The program explores professional services across the full infrastructure including network, server, and storage technologies with deeper examination around critical and impactful technologies such as wireline and wireless network convergence, datacenter networking, software-defined infrastructure, hybrid WAN strategies, public and private 5G implementations, IoT and cloud implications for the network, enterprise mobility, unified communications strategies on the network, hyperconverged infrastructure, datacenter transformation, virtualization, and containers, as well as the software systems that enable these trends for infrastructure.
For the service provider segment, this program tracks carrier-managed services and hosting contracts, market growth drivers, regional demand differences, and key alliances and partnerships.