PUBLISHER: IDC | PRODUCT CODE: 1565399
PUBLISHER: IDC | PRODUCT CODE: 1565399
IDC's Worldwide Dedicated Cloud Infrastructure and Services Taxonomy, 2024
This IDC study provides a detailed taxonomy for the dedicated cloud infrastructure and services market. The document covers the definitions of various building blocks and provides a top-level overview of dedicated cloud segments. IDC is retiring the term private cloud and replacing it with the term dedicated cloud, but the definition remains the same: environments in which IT resources are dedicated to a single organization and managed and delivered to end users utilizing cloud attributes. The growing availability of commercial and open source cloud platforms enables the increasing adoption of dedicated clouds by enterprises, while the proliferation of infrastructure management platforms for managing resources across multiple environments drives the expanding growth of hybrid IT environments."The growth of private, dedicated cloud infrastructure represents a willingness by cloud providers to meet customers where they are on their journey, while acknowledging data sovereignty, regulatory compliance, and latency requirements," said Rob Tiffany, research director for IDC's Cloud and Edge Infrastructure program. "Likewise, the delivery and management of dedicated cloud infrastructure as a service through an opex model is the recognition of a customer's financial and IT staffing realities."
IDC's Worldwide Dedicated Cloud Infrastructure and Services Taxonomy
Dedicated Cloud Infrastructure and Services Taxonomy Changes for 2024
Taxonomy Overview
Definitions
- What Is a Dedicated Cloud?
- Dedicated Cloud Primary Segments
- Dedicated Cloud Infrastructure
- Infrastructure Hardware (Platforms and Systems)
- Discrete Computing Platforms
- Discrete Enterprise Storage Platforms and Systems
- Converged and Hyperconverged Systems
- Systems Infrastructure Software
- Physical and Virtual Computing Software
- Operating Systems and Subsystems
- Software-Defined Compute
- Storage Software
- Systems Management Software
- Physical and Virtual Computing Software
- Infrastructure Hardware (Platforms and Systems)
- Dedicated Cloud Infrastructure as a Service
- Infrastructure Hardware as a Service
- Infrastructure Software as a Service
- Dedicated Cloud Infrastructure Services
- Professional Life-Cycle Services
- Cloud Professional Services
- Cloud Managed Support Services
- Managed Cloud Infrastructure Services
- Professional Life-Cycle Services
- Dedicated Cloud Infrastructure and Services Additional Attributes
- Deployment Location
- Self-Owned and/or Operated Facilities (Local)
- Service Provider Facilities
- Consumption Model (for Infrastructure)
- Capital Expenses
- Operational Expenses
- Type of Deployment (for Infrastructure)
- Turnkey (Off the Shelf)
- Bespoke (Custom)
- Add-On as-a-Service Options
- Dedicated Cloud Platform as a Service
- Dedicated Cloud Software as a service
- Stack Provider (Infrastructure Software Stack)
- OEM Vendor (Self or Branded)
- Independent Software Vendor
- Public Cloud Service Provider
- Managed Service Provider (Self or Branded)
- Infrastructure Control Planes (Management Layer)
- Premises Based (Installed or as a Service)
- Cloud Based (as a Service)
- Hybrid Cloud and Multicloud Control Planes
- Workload Support (and Optimization)
- General Purpose (Mixed)
- General Purpose (Current Generation)
- General Purpose (Cloud Native)
- Special Purpose (Fixed)
- Special Purpose (Extensible)
- Management Type
- Self-Managed (Operated)
- OEM Vendor
- Independent Software Vendor
- Cloud Service Provider
- Managed Service Provider
- Deployment Location
- Dedicated Cloud Infrastructure and Services: Common Segments
- Dedicated Cloud Infrastructure
- Dedicated Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (at Customer Premises)
- Dedicated Hosted Cloud as a Service
- Infrastructure Stack
- Examples of Popular Services
Related Markets
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- Synopsis
