IDC's Enterprise Servers: Technology Markets with Vertical Views service encompasses all the research within the Enterprise Servers: Technology Markets service, in addition to providing forecasts and analysis of end-user spending trends and priorities within 17 industries and four company size segments for scalable server products, segmented by operating system and chip type. It also analyzes significant new product introductions, technology trends, and adoption rates by industry and company size. This service is designed to be the research cornerstone for any company interested in understanding the scalable server market from an end-user perspective. Subscribers to this service receive direct access to IDC's top industry experts who can supply competitive analysis and positioning advice, identify strategic partnering opportunities, assist with speaking to the investment community, provide press quotes, and more. The following is a comprehensive overview of the industry-specific research elements addressed by the vertical views portion of this service.

• Server spending by operating system (Windows, NetWare, Linux, Unix, OS/400, OS/390, and other operating systems)
• Server spending by processor design (RISC, CISC, x86, and EPIC)
• Customer spending trends and priorities based on four company size segments and 17 industries: banking, insurance, securities and investment services, discrete manufacturing, process manufacturing, retail, wholesale, government, healthcare providers, education, professional services, consumer and recreational services, communications and media, transportation, utilities, construction, and resources

• Server installed base, consolidation, workloads, partitioning, and virtualization
• New technology adoption rates
• Multicore architectures
• Throughput computing
• High-availability 64-bit computing
• Chip multithreading
• Clustered file systems

1. How does the enterprise server market opportunity vary within different industries and company size segments?
2. What are key requirements to gaining market share within different industries?
3. What are the key pain points, spending trends, priorities, and technology needs in various industries?
4. How is customer investment in the installed base changing, and what will this mean for the future?

IDC's Enterprise Servers: Technology Markets with Vertical Views service arms vendors with a measurement of the IT dollar opportunities within the server market. The research provides market segmentation and predictions that act as a guiding system for initiating rational and optimal sales and marketing decisions and strategies, based on end-user surveys. IDC's insights lead to credible, unique, viable, and defensible market positioning and support the identification and prioritization of market efforts as well as successful entry, strategies, and tactics.

Throughout the year, this service will offer insight into the latest trends impacting the server market. Potential studies include:

This study discusses IDC's viewpoint on 17 industries for 2008. It includes a discussion of the key industry events of 2007, as well as predictions for 2008 and their impact on spending and IT priorities.

This study provides the worldwide and U.S. market opportunity for enterprise servers by operating system and processor design within 17 industries and four company size segments.

This study provides a midyear update on the worldwide and U.S. market opportunity for enterprise servers.

This study analyzes the results of a survey of 4,500 end users in the United States. The study homes in on key findings as they relate to variations in responses by industry and company size. This annual survey details the industry forces driving the adoption of server technologies, budgets, and the use and demand of server form factors. Analysis and resulting recommendations are made based on survey results.

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