Abstract

This IDC study provides a comprehensive overview and definitions for enterprise infrastructure hardware. The definitions provided in this document represent the scope of IDC's enterprise infrastructure hardware research.

This taxonomy outlines market segmentations and measurement methodologies for the enterprise infrastructure market including classification by technology, vendor, geography, and revenue metrics.

"The enterprise infrastructure market has evolved in the past years with the introduction of converged systems, cloud-based architectures, and more demanding workloads; as a result, IDC redesigned its existing enterprise hardware tracker product portfolio to better represent the current market dynamics. IDC's enterprise infrastructure taxonomy presents IDC's framework for analyzing the enterprise infrastructure market in a holistic way presenting a total addressable market sizing and forecast," said Lidice Fernandez, program vice president, Worldwide Tracker Research. "This taxonomy document will constantly evolve to facilitate a systematic and consistent analysis of the enterprise infrastructure market by IDC's research teams around the world."

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