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 by the virtualized environment supporting applications running on these servers. It also provides a segmentation of this market view and forecast by workload categories and workloads."Demand for more AI development and deployment is having an outsized influence on the enterprise infrastructure market, ultimately impacting virtualization environment preferences," said Max Pepper, senior research analyst, Enterprise and Emerging Workloads at IDC. "The scalability and lightweight nature of containers makes them ideal for the process-intensive work required, and we expect their use to continue to rapidly expand across all workloads as AI adoption increases."
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Executive Summary
Advice for Technology Suppliers
Market Forecast
Market Context
Drivers and Inhibitors
Drivers
Growth of AI/ML Support Among Workloads
Growth of Edge-Native Workloads
Growth of the Public Cloud Services Market
Inhibitors
Security and Compliance Requirements
Macroeconomic Impact
Significant Market Developments
Changes from Prior Forecast
Market Definition
Virtualization Method
Workload Categories
Application Development and Testing
Business Applications
Data Management
Digital Services
Email/Collaborative and Content Applications
Infrastructure
Engineering/Technical
Methodology
Related Research
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