Abstract

This IDC study provides a comprehensive overview of and definitions for enterprise servers. The definitions provided in this document represent the scope of IDC's server hardware research, specifically the server tracker and forecast deliverables. This taxonomy outlines market segmentations and measurement methodologies for the server industry including classification by technology, vendor, geography, and revenue metrics.

"Server technology, and the server market, will be going through broad changes over the next several years. IDC's worldwide server taxonomy presents IDC's framework for analyzing the server market, based on standardized and identifiable technical and market attributes," said Kuba Stolarski, vice president, Infrastructure Systems, Platforms and Technologies Group. "The taxonomy document will continually evolve to facilitate a systematic and consistent analysis of the server market by IDC's server research teams around the world."

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