Category: Servers & Mainframes
Servers & Mainframes market research reports by IDC
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The Macroeconomic Impacts and Implications of Datacenters: A Comprehensive Assessment
This IDC Market Perspective examines the critical role of datacenters in the global digital economy, highlighting their economic impact, challenges, and growth projections. It discusses the surging demand driven by AI and cloud services, investment trends, and the geopolitical implications of datace ... Read More
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Datacenter Design and Construction Vendor Profile: MDS Energy (Formerly MDS Site & Power)
This IDC Vendor Profile offers an overview of MDS Energy (formerly known as MDS Site & Power), a specialized provider of datacenter design, construction, and energy solutions in the Middle East. The vendor has built a reputation for delivering facilities that meet stringent requirements in terms ... Read More
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Mainframe Still Plays a Critical Role in Financial Services
This IDC Perspective details how mainframes still play a critical role in financial services. Any time a consumer purchases a latte, buys a mobile phone, or pays for movie tickets at the cinema, that transaction is almost guaranteed to be processed by two or three mainframes at the acquiring company ... Read More
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The Building Blocks of a Sustainable Datacenter
This IDC Market Perspective defines the IDC framework for sustainable datacenters based on five pillars: goals, commitment, and transparency; design and construction; natural resources sourcing; natural resources efficiency; and circularity. To provide a context over the life cycle of a datacenter, ... Read More
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Japan Datacenter Forecast, 2025–2029
This IDC study forecasts the number of sites, total floor footprint, and power capacity (IT load) of datacenters (DCs) installed in Japan by DC size, location area, and year of building completion."The demand for the installation of AI servers is contributing to increased power capacity at datacente ... Read More
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Datacenter Energy and Carbon Emission Projections and the Drive to Net Zero, 2025
This IDC Market Perspective details how the rapid expansion of datacenters, driven by digitalization and AI workloads, is leading to significant energy consumption and carbon emissions increases. Datacenter operators are prioritizing sustainability to manage costs and meet net-zero goals, investing ... Read More
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Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine Simplifies the Migration and Management of VMs
This IDC Market Note examines Red Hat’s recently announced OpenShift Virtualization Engine. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine offers a solution for migrating virtual machines (VMs) from competing hypervisor platforms without the requirements of immediate containerization. It integrates with Re ... Read More
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Managed SPs: Adapting Business Models to Support Modernizing Mainframes with Managed Cloud Services
This IDC Market Perspective discusses different approaches that enterprises consider when using managed SPs to support modernization of mainframe environments as part of managed cloud services and the impact in modernizing mainframes on future opportunities for managed SPs and how managed SPs should ... Read More
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Top 5 Trends for Colocation Services for 2025
This IDC Market Perspective provides insights into the latest emerging datacenter technology trends that are shaping the datacenter colocation industry. New and emerging trends will change datacenter colocation facilities in terms of architecture design, cooling, storage, security, and sustainabilit ... Read More
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Datacenter Providers Are Leading a Renaissance of Alternative Energy Led by Nuclear
Datacenter Providers Are Leading a Renaissance of Alternative Energy Led by Nuclear This IDC Market Perspective looks at datacenter providers’ demand for alternative energy sources. The datacenter industry‘s growing energy demands, driven by AI and cloud computing advancements, are pushing for a shi ... Read More
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Worldwide Server DRAM DIMM by Workload Forecast, 2025–2029
Worldwide Server DRAM DIMM by Workload Forecast, 2025–2029 This IDC study presents an outlook for the server DRAM DIMM market for the 2025–2029 period. The DRAM industry dynamics and the server workload changes are aggregated, analyzed, and applied to this long-term DIMM forecast in terms of units a ... Read More
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Open Mainframe Project Zowe Gets No-Cost Enterprise Support from Broadcom
Open Mainframe Project Zowe Gets No-Cost Enterprise Support from Broadcom This IDC Market Note explores the implications of Broadcom’s recent announcement that it is offering free enterprise support for the Zowe open source project. “Broadcom’s no-cost enterprise support for the Zowe open source pro ... Read More
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HPE Jumps into the Virtualization Market
HPE Jumps into the Virtualization Market This IDC Market Note discusses the details of HPE Discover Barcelona conducted by HPE. HPE has introduced VM Essentials, a virtualization solution within its GreenLake cloud portfolio, leveraging assets from Morpheus Data. This move aims to compete with VMwar ... Read More
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Worldwide Server Infrastructure Workloads by Virtualized Environment Forecast, 2024–2028: AI Demand Drives Major Growth in Spending Supporting Containerized Environments
Worldwide Server Infrastructure Workloads by Virtualized Environment Forecast, 2024–2028: AI Demand Drives Major Growth in Spending Supporting Containerized Environments This IDC study provides an overview of the market size and forecast from 2024 to 2028 for global spending on enterprise servers b ... Read More
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Worldwide Virtual Machine Software Market Shares, 2023: VMware Acquisition Drags on But Finally Closes
Worldwide Virtual Machine Software Market Shares, 2023: VMware Acquisition Drags on But Finally Closes This IDC study examines the market share of virtual machine software vendors in 2023 as well as the market forces that influenced their performances. Virtual machine software is a submarket of the ... Read More
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Innovating Connectivity: Insights from Connected World KSA 2024
Innovating Connectivity: Insights from Connected World KSA 2024 Connected World KSA 2024 brought together key industry players — including stc, Mobily, Salam, Center 3, Tawal, and Dawiyat — and global tech leaders to discuss Saudi Arabia's vision for becoming a global digital hub. The event focused ... Read More
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Worldwide Container Infrastructure Software Market Shares, 2023: Modernization Drives Container Growth
Worldwide Container Infrastructure Software Market Shares, 2023: Modernization Drives Container Growth This IDC study examines the market share of container infrastructure software vendors in 2023 as well as the market forces that influenced their performances. Container infrastructure software is a ... Read More
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Datacenter Colocation Service Vendor Profile: Digital Realty
Datacenter Colocation Service Vendor Profile: Digital Realty This IDC Vendor Profile offers an overview of one of the leading global providers of datacenter and interconnection services. Digital Realty Trust has emerged as one of the top global providers of datacenter colocation and interconnection ... Read More
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Siemens' Strategies and Capabilities for Sustainability
Siemens' Strategies and Capabilities for Sustainability This IDC Vendor Profile provides an overview of Siemens' strategic initiatives to drive sustainability. It illustrates the approaches and use cases that Siemens is pursuing to address sustainability in a strategic and holistic manner. ... Read More
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Colocation Vendor Profile: QTS’ Significant Growth Fueled by Scalability and Access to Infrastructure
Colocation Vendor Profile: QTS’ Significant Growth Fueled by Scalability and Access to Infrastructure This IDC Vendor Profile offers an overview of QTS Data Centers, one of the leading providers of datacenter colocation and interconnection services. ... Read More
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Sub-Saharan Africa Datacenter Trends and Investment Strategies, 2024
Sub-Saharan Africa Datacenter Trends and Investment Strategies, 2024 This IDC Market Perspective takes a detailed look at the latest developments in the datacenter market in SSA. It highlights some new construction projects and the expansion of existing datacenter facilities in the region. Important ... Read More
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AMD Unveils Top-to-Bottom Refresh of Its Datacenter and GenAI Hardware and Software Portfolios
AMD Unveils Top-to-Bottom Refresh of Its Datacenter and GenAI Hardware and Software Portfolios This IDC Market Perspective focuses on the key announcements made at the AMD Advancing AI 2024 event, held October 10, 2024, in San Francisco, where AMD showcased its latest advances in compute and network ... Read More
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Implications of Equinix's Datacenter Launch for the South African Datacenter Market
Implications of Equinix's Datacenter Launch for the South African Datacenter Market This IDC Market Note provides IDC's key opinions on and impressions of Equinix's October 2024 launch of the JN1 datacenter in Johannesburg, South Africa."The recent launch of the JN1 datacenter by Equinix will furthe ... Read More
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IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Sustainability/ESG 2025 Predictions
IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Sustainability/ESG 2025 Predictions This IDC FutureScape provides the top 10 sustainability/ESG predictions for 2025."IT has become a critical enabler for organizations moving from ESG compliance to the operationalization phase of sustainable transformation. But the IT foo ... Read More
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IEIT SYSTEMS Focuses on Full-Stack Innovation, Data, and Industry Collaboration
IEIT SYSTEMS Focuses on Full-Stack Innovation, Data, and Industry Collaboration This IDC Vendor Profile discusses IEIT SYSTEMS' focus on full-stack innovation, data, and industry collaboration. Rapid growth of AI use cases drives strong demand for new AI models and AI-infused applications. This puts ... Read More
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