IDC's Worldwide Converged Systems Tracker Taxonomy, 2025

PUBLISHED: March 28, 2025

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Description

This IDC study provides an overview of how IDC defines and measures the converged systems market. Technology definitions that directly relate to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker are provided as the descriptions of IDC's approach to segmenting this market. "IT departments around the world are increasingly turning to converged systems to improve utilization rates of their infrastructure, reduce time to deployment of new applications, ease infrastructure management burdens, and reduce the risk of downtime," said Lidice Fernandez, group vice president, Worldwide Enterprise Infrastructure Trackers.

Product Code: US53258125

IDC's Worldwide Converged Systems Tracker Taxonomy

Converged Systems Tracker Taxonomy Changes for 2025

Taxonomy Overview

Definitions

Converged Systems
- Certified Reference Systems
- Integrated Platforms
- Integrated Infrastructure
- Criteria to Meet to Be Considered Integrated Systems or Certified Reference Systems
- Hyperconverged Systems
  - Maturing Market Drives Diversity of HCI Architectures
  - Background: Getting to Disaggregated Hyperconverged Systems
  - Route to Market: Single Vendor Versus Partnerships
- Software Included Within Converged Systems Market Sizing
IDC Market Definitions
- Branded Market View
  - System Vendor and Hyperconverged Software Vendor Revenue Attribution Differences
  - Metrics Used to Measure the Integrated Infrastructure and Platform Market
  - Exchange Rates
- Vendor Recognition
Enterprise Storage System, Server, Networking, and Software Taxonomies
- Enterprise Storage System Definitions
  - Important Enterprise Storage System Metrics
- Enterprise Server Definitions
- Enterprise Network Infrastructure Definitions
  - Ethernet Switches
  - Fibre Channel Switches
  - InfiniBand Switches
- Software Definitions
  - Applications Market Definition
  - Application Development and Deployment Software Market Definition
  - System Infrastructure Software Market Definition
    - Software-Defined Storage Controller Software
    - Hyperconverged Software-Defined Storage Controller Software
    - Network Infrastructure Software