This IDC Insight provides an overview of enterprise spending breakdown for IT hardware life-cycle services. These services are limited to the deployment, support and decommissioning services that are captured as part of IDC's hardware deploy and support foundation market, and "standalone" decommissioning services. The overview does not consider project-based services (e.g., IT consulting and systems integration) or outsourcing services (e.g., IT outsourcing or application management). For a more comprehensive view of definitions of these markets, please see IDC's Worldwide Services Taxonomy, 2007 (IDC #205608, February 2007).