IDC Research Types
Analyst
Analyst Profile
Provides complete background information on an IDC analyst. Each profile provides a biography, a notable quotation, a frequently asked question relevant to the particular analyst's focus, and a list of research authored by that analyst.
Team Profile
Lists the analyst members of a topical team. Outlines general areas of coverage and any specialties.
Briefs
Flash
Provides rapid IDC insight and analysis about a significant industry event or conference, merger or acquisition, product announcement, or other fast-breaking news affecting the IT market.
Forecast Update
Provides a short, quick look at an updated forecast and the changed assumptions behind the update. It updates a market forecast published in the same calendar year, identifies changed and key forecast assumptions, and highlights actions for participants to consider in light of the changes.
IDC Insight
Provides coverage and analysis of an industry event, new product or service, or a company announcement or development.
Update
Provides brief overview coverage of what is happening in a market.
Vendor Profiles
Provides a concise, hard-hitting profile of an emerging vendor. A profile will highlight new players and technologies and the potential paradigm shifts or disruptions a vendor represents.
Daily Graphics
Daily Graphic
Illustrates IDC's keen analysis of major market trends in downloadable PowerPoints. Available as a free download the day it appears, an IDC Daily Graphic provides valuable material for speeches and strategic planning.
Event Proceedings
Event Proceeding
Provides published slides, audio, and other materials from IDC and Insights Web conferences, briefings, forums, or other events.
Events
Conference
Delivers dependable, relevant, and high-impact data and insight to help organizations make sound business and technology decisions. eBusiness executives, IT professionals, IT suppliers, and services suppliers benefit from the strategic insight and networking opportunities IDC conferences offer. Generally, all presentation slides are available online, and for most conferences, streaming audio of key discussions is available as well.
Web Conference
Focuses on significant trends and paradigm shifts. Each Web conference will provide attendees with leading-edge market information that will enable them to make smart business decisions. For those unable to attend in person or those wishing to review the content presented, these synchronized multimedia presentations are available online.
IDC DecisionScapes
IDC FutureScape
Serves as a framework for IT/tech professionals' IT strategy and planning for the next one to three years. It lists IDC's top 10 worldwide technology trends for the coming one to three years in a given research area and includes related drivers, projected IT/business strategy impact, and guidance.
IDC MarketScape
Helps IT/tech professionals develop a short list of suitable suppliers when selecting a vendor. Provides an unbiased assessment of tech suppliers in terms of offerings, strategy, capabilities, and other important factors in a given technology area.
IDC MaturityScape
Describes five stages of "maturity" or capability for a particular technology area, helps IT/tech professionals understand where their organizations fit within those stages, and provides guidance on key components for planning successful improvements to a tech initiative.
IDC MaturityScape Benchmark
Helps IT/tech professionals to benchmark their maturity against peers, develop a business case for a tech initiative, and build consensus about where critical IT investments should be made. Presents quantitative research results that show the market distribution for a given tech initiative across the five stages of maturity presented in the related IDC MaturityScape. Shows the results and components of particularly successful initiatives.
IDC PeerScape
Gives IT/tech professionals insight into best practices (and practices to avoid) by providing specific use case examples implemented by peers. Identifies practices that have the most impact on the success of a tech or business initiative, and provides actionable guidance for each practice.
IDC PlanScape
Helps IT/tech professionals to justify and plan a business and/or technology investment or opportunity by exploring why, what, who, and how (these are also the main section headings). Presents key players, critical success factors, risks, and actions to consider for a designated technology and/or business management area.
IDC TechScape
Helps IT/tech professionals with developing IT strategic plans and evaluating emerging technologies in terms of their risk to the business. Shows the adoption curve and risk levels over time for a specific emerging technology. Sorts technologies into three "adoption model" categories (transformational, incremental, opportunistic) to help tech leaders determine the potential impact for their organization.
IDC Links
IDC Link
Provides timely context and insight around important market trends and events in a short opinion piece. IDC Links provide IDC's point of view on:
- Financial announcements
- Product announcements
- Mergers and acquisitions or divestitures
- Events
- Response to news
Insights-only Research
Best Practices
Correlates the use of specific practices and superior performance as indicated by an analysis of the benchmarking database. Highlights any significant differences between industries. Conclusions provide a set of process priorities for improving a business case and advice on how to overcome change management issues.
Business Strategy
Helps buyers to assess their business strategies and/or associated business processes, especially as they relate to the use of technology.
Methods and Practices
Provides a step-by-step description of a method or methods that can be applied. As appropriate, the report may compare the benefits and drawbacks of several methods.
Perspective
Presents an article written by an Insights analyst on a topic of special interest to a target audience. This information has generally already appeared in an industry publication and is repackaged for display on the Insights Web site.
Vendor Assessment
Helps buyers select the right IT supplier. The report helps buyers understand the various providers of a technology by providing analysis on market landscape, vendor profiles, vendor market share, and vendor assessments.
Pivot Tables
Pivot Table
Presents an interactive spreadsheet tool for analyzing trends and activities in a specific market segment. These tables are available only through an annual subscription service.
Predictions
Top 10 Predictions
Provides bold, well-conceived market predictions grounded in solid methodologies, primary research, and analyst experience. Lays out a clear road map to understanding major market opportunities and trends.
Presentations
IDC Presentation
Provides the latest, select CIS forecast data, primary research survey findings, and critical IDC analyst opinion in a succinct, easy-to-digest PowerPoint format.
IDC Survey
Presents a hypothesis about what is happening in the market backed by the results of a demand-side or supply-side survey. The focus is on interpreting and analyzing the survey results and providing a strong point of view along with actionable advice.
IDC Survey Spotlight
Answers a timely question and provides a strong opinion backed by IDC survey data. This is a quick nugget of information that is presented in two concise PowerPoint slides.
Insights Presentation
Provides an easy-to-use format to post on the Web presentations that were previously delivered at public forums (such as conferences and events) or for internal client meetings and client presentations. It may not come as part of a consulting/custom engagement.
Market Analysis Perspective
Delivers a concise current state view of a market and insight into the impact of future trends. Business executives, product managers, and MI/AR professionals can use this information when looking to understand buyers' perspectives and market impacts.
Press Releases
Press Release
Announces significant corporate news, such as key hirings or promotions, performance milestones, event highlights, or speaking engagements.
Product Information
Fact Sheet
Describes a research product. Usually details the major areas of coverage and deliverables, and outlines key questions and competitive market conditions that the research will address. Includes links to all published research for a research product.
Studies
Competitive Analysis
Provides a detailed accounting and review of a vendor's programs, processes, products, service, satisfaction, and/or strategy in a target market. This knowledge helps clients reduce their risk of losing market share or enhance their position over the competition.
Customer Needs and Strategies
Focuses on the important decisions that business and IT professionals make every day.
Industry Developments and Models
Provides a detailed assessment of a specific target market's expansion pattern. This analysis helps clients develop and deploy the right mix of value-add products, programs, or services to support their sales and/or partnering efforts.
Market Analysis
Provides an in-depth examination of the dynamics and future of a single market or a group of related markets. The Market Analysis is where we will typically present our forecasts and assumptions, using a key forecast assumptions table.
Market Forecast
Provides the future of a single market or a group of related markets. It presents a new or updated market forecast, including key drivers and assumptions used in the forecast.
Market Share
Provides data on market size, regional allocations, and platform splits as well as a summary of vendor shares for the most recently completed period (year, quarter).
Special Study
Provides a onetime study produced by a research group that is not published as a deliverable under a subscription service.
Survey
Provides a study and interpretation of the results of a demand- or supply-side survey.
Taxonomy
Highlights and emphasizes how IDC tracks the market while also making it easier for customers to find and identify IDC Taxonomy documents.
Technology Assessment
Provides an analysis of the intricacies of an emerging or established technology or the technologies contained within a specific product.
Vendor Needs and Strategies
Provides an in-depth analysis of a company, a small group of companies, a division of a company focused on a particular market, or a best practice that the company exemplifies.
当前，全球各行各业都在如火如荼地进行着以第三平台技术为基础的数字化转型。IDC认为，全球企业已经进入到数字化转型的倍增创新阶段，预计到2022年，全球企业数字化转型将进入到智能创新阶段。与此同时，新技术、新兴系统作为数字化转型的推动力也带来了许多网络安全的相关问题，网络攻击的广泛性、多样性、隐蔽性进一步加强，全球企业面临着严峻的网络威胁态势。在此背景下，2019年华为全连接大会（HUAWEI CONNECT）于9月18日在中国上海举办。其中，“打造全面的AI安全与隐私保障体系”和“云安全专场”论坛与业界专业人士共同探讨了如何建立万物互联时代的智能主动安全防御体系。华为致力于构建最安全的产品与服务，其网络安全战略成为其全球化发展的重要组成部分。
...目前，伴随虚拟空间与物理空间的融合、新兴IT系统和新技术的发展，全球网络安全攻防形势愈发严峻。网络安全已从单纯的信息安全扩展到国家安全、社会安全、经济安全、个人安全等多个领域，这些领域共同推动了“大安全”时代的到来。在这样的背景下，第七届互联网安全大会（以下简称“ISC 2019”）于2019年8月19日在北京雁栖湖召开。本次大会以“应对网络战、共建大生态、同筑大安全”为主题，讨论了全球网络安全的新形势和新发展。
当今社会，网络空间已经成为陆海空天之外的第五维空间。5G、云计算、人工智能等新技术在不断推动社会发展的同时也带来了许多安全问题，网络风险和威胁伴随新时代、新技术的发展与日俱增，网络安全已经直接关系到人身安全、机构安全、城市安全和国家安全。在此背景下，2019年8月21日，北京网络安全大会在北京国家会议中心召开，会议以“聚合应变，内生安全”为主题，与世界各地专家共同探讨了网络安全的热门话题和未来发展趋势。
2019年4月26日，浪潮商用机器有限公司在北京召开了媒体纷享会，主题为“POWER 之春，赋能数字经济新活力”。
AI时代网络领域发生了重大变化，一是网络需要适应AI带来的数据爆发式增长，二是AI技术本身亦可应用到网络中来。超高带宽、AI算力和AI运维是网络面向AI时代的三大变化。在此背景下，华为发布了面向AI时代的数据中心交换机CloudEngine 16800，具备高密度400G端口，内置AI芯片，使能自动驾驶网络，引领数据中心网络从云时代迈向AI时代。
2019年1月7日，华为在中国深圳举办以 “鲲鹏凌云，泰山聚势” 为主题的华为鲲鹏芯片、服务器发布会，宣布推出高性能ARM-based处理器-鲲鹏920以及基于鲲鹏920的泰山服务器和华为云服务，并携手产业伙伴推动ARM的产业发展。
2018年12月21日，华为以“芯开始，让智能计算无所不及”为主题在北京举办了首届智能计算大会暨中国智能计算业务战略发布会，宣布成立智能计算业务部，并发布了以芯片创新、智能数据中心整合、云边协同为核心的智能计算新战略。
在国家政策的驱动下，大量中国企业已经或正在进行数字化转型，并在运营过程中积累了庞大的运营相关的数字资产，这些数字资产通常包括企业财务信息、用户信息、业务流量信息等高度敏感和隐私信息。国家也相继出台《中华人民共和国网络安全法》、《信息安全技术个人信息安全规范》等法律规范及技术要求，从各维度加大对于此类信息特别是个人信息的保护力度。
在全球企业数字化转型高速进行的背景下，网络安全问题已经成为制约企业CIO考虑数字化转型的一个重要因素。因此，在全球范围内围绕第三平台技术的下一代安全技术进入高速发展阶段。作为全球经济体重要组成部分，中国政府也在加大督促企业级用户积极利用全新的安全技术构建网络安全防御体系的力度。但如何精准的监测日益复杂的网络攻击成为了企业级用户构建网络安全防御体系的难点。及时了解全球的威胁情报成为解决这一问题的有效途径，因此，全球威胁情报市场于近几年发展迅速，2015年威胁情报正式进入中国，自此也得到了各个行业用户的关注，中国威胁情报市场因此呈现蓄势待发的状态。
...2018 年9 月17-18 日，浪潮信息股份有限公司在北京举办2018年度分析师大会，提出了5年内成为全球服务器市场第一的目标，并介绍了包括服务器、存储、高性能计算、云计算管理软件等在内的各产品线过去一年的成绩，以及未来的发展战略。浪潮表示出对于人工智能领域美好前景的重视，并将会重点投资人工智能基础架构方面的产品。此外，浪潮还提出了JDM (Joint Design Manufacture) 的服务器生产和合作模式。IDC 认为，浪潮在人工智能基础架构产品和新型商业模式的创新和探索都会对未来的数据中心领域产生深远的影响。
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