IDC Tracker

Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker

About Product

IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker provides broad coverage of key server market information, enabling companies to compare new developments in the server market from a global perspective. At its core is a comprehensive database detailing changes and trends within the server market. Through Excel pivot tables, users can track competitors in the server space and create quantitative market analyses.

Markets Covered

This service covers the following segments of the worldwide server market:

Quarterly shipments and factory and customer revenue with historical information from 1Q96
U.S., Western Europe, Japan, Asia/Pacific, Canada, and the rest of the world (ROW) regions
Entry, midrange, and high-end server classes
ISS and upgrades
35+ vendors by family and model
Server operating systems
11 price bands, including four bands under $25,000
CPU type and architecture
CPU capacity and count
Rack-optimized, nonrack-optimized, and blade form factors
Specific breakout of standard Intel architecture servers

Subjects Analyzed

Throughout the year, this service will address the following topics:

Server market sizing
Server market share
Entry, midrange, and high-end servers
Standard Intel architecture servers
New market areas, such as appliance server, rack-optimized, and blade technologies

Key Questions Answered

Which vendors are gaining or losing market share are the quarterly shipments and revenue for the leading server vendors by family and model?
Where is the server market growth occurring by vendor, price band, region, operating system, and CPU type?
Who is gaining share in the high-end, midrange, and entry server markets?
What are the best-selling models for Compaq, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Dell, Silicon Graphics, Sequent, Data General, and other leading vendors?
How does the growth of a company's midrange Unix business in Japan compare with its performance in Western Europe and the United States?

Companies Analyzed

IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker is an essential tool for tracking competitors in the server space. This tool is updated quarterly, providing you with the latest information for ongoing business planning activities. Built on the foundation of IDC's worldwide network of experienced market analysts, this research uses both top-down and bottom-up methodologies to match close operational market knowledge against global company financial modeling.

Database Delivery

The data in this product is provided in Excel pivot tables. The ability to write and run these tables is provided as a standard feature of Microsoft's application. We attach a database to the Excel workbook. Tables can also be customized easily by clients with Excel macros to automate quarterly business planning models.

With the purchase of the Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, you will receive trend explanations and detailed insights, one day of onsite training at any location in the United States, and inquiry time for supporting questions regarding data usage.