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.
The risk of growing digital gaps can have a serious impact on the speed of recovery in different parts of the world and society experience, according to the World Economic Forum's (WEF) recent 2021 Global Risk Perception Survey. Another ...
This IDC Perspective presents what is required to fully embrace price transparency throughout the payer enterprise. CMS mandates for payers and providers have emerged in response to "surprise billing" and a political response to consumer ...
This IDC Perspective reports on the outcomes of January's IDC global CIO Research Advisory Board virtual roundtable. Ten CIOs from multinational organizations across multiple industries and regions shared key insights from the unprecedented ...
This IDC study discusses creating professional development programs for cybersecurity.
"The world of cybersecurity is becoming increasingly siloed," says Mike Chapple, adjunct analyst, IDC's IT Executive Programs (IEP). "Leaders should ...
This IDC study examines the importance of building regulatory compliance in the cloud. In today's environment, it is not only possible but often preferable to run regulated workloads in a public cloud environment, and IT leaders around the ...
This IDC TechScape examines the technologies that are essential for safely reopening and managing government office spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic, recognizing that many have the potential to evolve in the years to come. It provides ...
This IDC Market Note includes news that occurred within the imaging and printing market in February 2021.
This IDC Market Note discusses 4Q20 and FY20 results and updates from the three U.S. cable companies that offer wireless services, along with DISH Network, which owns the Boost Mobile MVNO service. It summarizes IDC's opinion on market changes ...
This IDC Market Note examines facial recognition, explores the potential uses for such technology, and reviews potential solutions to guard against nefarious use. Facial recognition has gotten a bad rap in public policy and regulatory circles, ...
This IDC Market Note examines AT&T's quarterly results discussed in the company's 4Q20 earnings announcement on January 27, 2021. In this document, IDC analyzes AT&T's operating metrics and overall strategy in the context of the ...
As the economy recovers in 2021 and beyond, organizations in the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) region will consolidate their automation and intelligence gains from 2020 and build them into the core of their digital strategies. Insight-driven ...
This IDC Market Presentation analyzes national recovery and resilience plans that leverage Next Generation EU and how resources will be allocated across the different investment areas to understand the impact of these plans on ICT spending ...
This IDC Survey provides insights into the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) results from IDC Insight’s Worldwide Sustainability, Health and Safety survey conducted in 2020 for utilities, oil and gas, and mining companies operating the ...
Operations-intensive organizations are undergoing digital transformation. This is not only affecting technology and processes,but is also having a particularly strong impact on organizations' structures and roles, as well as the responsibilities ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight focuses on CEOs' plans around industry ecosystems and their importance.
A consistent theme over the past year in our research, first with our COVID-19 Impact on IT Spending Survey, ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights the top 3 IT investment and strategy topics in the hospitality and tourism industry.
"Nearly 57% of respondents indicated that they meet with the board of directors (BODs) either monthly or quarterly. ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides insight into how the increased migration of workloads to public clouds during the COVID-19 pandemic has reset strategic priorities for enterprise networking. The document contains data from IDC's Enterprise ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights the organization's technology priorities for success of the business.
"During the COVID-19 crisis, organizations shifted cybersecurity priorities and budgets to business operations and crisis management. ...
Salesforce recently released its Loyalty Management solution built natively on the Salesforce platform and available as a standalone product that does not require any of its other cloud solutions. Loyalty has been a strategic issue for many ...
In 2020, CenturyLink rebranded itself as Lumen Technologies with a mission to deliver a "platform for amazing things." With approximately 450,000 global route miles of fiber and connections to 2,200 public and private datacenters, Lumen ...
The latest financial figures released by Workday on February 25, 2021, showed the company's total revenues for the year were $4.32 billion — up 19% year over year. Subscription revenues showed robust growth of 22.4%, reaching $3.79 billion ...
The launch of IBM Cloud Satellite allows customers to extend the IBM Cloud-as-a-service consumption model across on-premises, third-party public cloud, and edge platforms. This allows customers to apply consistent compute, storage, and workload ...
This IDC study discusses the drivers and dynamics that had an impact on the global enterprise legal management software market in 2020 and provides insight into future trends that may influence market demand over the 2021–2025 period.
"To ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's Worldwide Big Data and Analytics Spending Guide methodology and taxonomy. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide Big Data and Analytics Spending Guide and all of ...
This IDC study presents IDC's taxonomy of the social, environmental responsibility and ethics (SERE) initiatives that organizations across the world are committing to and delivering upon. It provides definitions of 4 functional categories ...
This IDC study lays the groundwork for performance-intensive computing (PIC) as a composite market. It combines infrastructure approaches across three major and fast-growing use case categories: modeling and simulation (M&S), artificial ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation examines the key trends in integrated physical solutions — video surveillance and card access to buildings. Integrated physical security refers to the combination of people, workflow, and technology deployed ...
This report looks at the Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) results of IDC's 2020 Asia/Pacific Future of Work Employee Survey, focusing on technology and how it relates to the changing workspace and workforce.
This study also examines ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a view of the current makeup of the Intelligent CloudOps software landscape. It illustrates the participating vendors and depicts market segments and structure. This document aligns with the recently published ...
This IDC Survey presents results from the customer experience (CX) section of IDC's European Software Survey, completed in November 2020 (n = 763). It focuses on cutting-edge CX technologies and the degree to which enterprises are using ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides insights from IDC's 2020 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Maturity Survey conducted from October to November 2020. It looks specifically at which AI use cases are higher on the agenda ...
The failure rate of commercial and industrial Internet of Things (IoT) deployments is quite high. Such initiatives are inherently bespoke and are mired in data integration challenges, which results in complexity, cost overruns, and poor ...
On February 24, 2021, NetApp reported financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year (FY) 2021, which ended on January 31, 2021.
This IDC Market Perspective explores the Internet of Things (IoT) market in New Zealand from the connectivity providers' perspective. The report provides a competitive landscape for IoT connectivity providers and serves as a guiding document ...
With the global disruption of the supply chain because of the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations across Southeast Asia have undertaken several measures to develop a more resilient supply chain. Across sectors, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides an analysis of the IT-related contracts signed by the Canadian government in 2020. The summary outlines all contracts of C$10,000+ in value, covering the areas of hardware, software, IT services, ...
This IDC Web Conference highlights IDC's Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Business Services research and provides guidance regarding how sustainability can help drive business value on the foundation of a purpose-driven strategy. ...
This IDC Perspective analyzes how bp embarked on a subsurface knowledge mining project. bp intended to capitalize on the wealth of subsurface data it built over the years to boost the operational efficiency of its upstream business. The ...
This IDC Perspective analyzes how the transformation enabled by events in 2020 made data-driven factories the central element of manufacturers' business strategies. It also provides insight into how companies are tackling these issues.
"Manufacturers ...
This IDC Perspective looks at the journey of the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust in Northern Ireland as it modernizes its workplace. From addressing the mobility needs of its frontline clinicians to enabling remote working in ...
在疫情常态化的今天，制造商开始重新审视其现有业务，并开始规划未来产业发展战略。在以国内大循环为主题、国内国际双循环相互促进的“双循环”战略背景之下，制造商如何保持业务可持续性？如何开拓新市场以满足内循环需求？在运营过程中如何减少供应链带来的风险？这些都是制造商普遍关注和亟待解决的问题。
IDC最新发布的《中国制造业供应链市场机会分析》报告，从宏观经济和产业角度分析了制造业供应链市场的重要性，并给出了智慧供应链的定义和在制造业的主要应用场景。结合中国制造业的实际，给出了制造业供应链市场的全貌、重点分析了领先技术提供商的主要业务和战略布局。在最后，给出了制造业供应链市场未来的发展趋势和市场机会点。
“未来制造商之间的竞争，从本质上说是企业供应链之间的竞争。制造业数字化供应链的特征是智能化、可视化、以及具有弹性。供应链服务商市场竞争格局初显，未来企业之间的竞争将愈发激烈。企业把握‘供应链创新’这一风向，不断加速新兴技术在制造业供应链场景的落地和应用，推动供应链创新应用实践。”——IDC中国制造业高级研究经理张兰英表示。
...This Market Note presents IDC's view on the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact signed in Europe in January 2021 by member organizations of Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE).
This IDC Market Note discusses Verizon's 4Q20 and full-year 2020 results.
"Verizon emerged from a challenging 2020, in good shape, with a solid financial performance, and is poised to benefit from an economic rebound in the latter ...
This IDC Survey focuses on digital experience technologies and user preferences to deliver multichannel customer experiences. Buyer interest in headless content management systems to support dynamic web and mobile apps is on the rise. IDC's ...
In 2018, IDC undertook a study of the perceived trustworthiness of the digital activities of a range of organizations operating within the digital realm.
This study was replicated at the end of 2020, and the results for Southeast Asia ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines automation will remain the new normal.
Reconfirmed in the latest IDC survey of enterprise decision makers, the pandemic has had an enduring impact on work practices and technologies. The pandemic ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight offers insights into what some companies are doing to reduce downtime within their datacenters. 53% of companies have seen a reduction in downtime within their environments over the past two years.
In April ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic is shaping technology investment plans and accelerating the interest in consumption models for IT investment.
In February, IDC conducted a worldwide survey to understand ...
Dell Technologies recently completed fiscal 2021 and saw a steady improvement throughout the year in the demand environment as consumers, commercial businesses, and public sector organizations all turned to technology to help bridge the ...
Due to a record number of PC processors shipped in 4Q20 and validation of sustained end demand for PC processors by PC OEMs in 1Q21 and extending through the 1H21, IDC will raise its forecast for PC processor shipments in 2021 from 9.6% ...
On March 1, 2021, Broadcom Software delivered its new Symantec Web Protection Suite offering. The strength of the suite approach is that it provides flexibility and choice to organizations. Security can be applied by an on-premises appliance, ...
On February 25, 2021, HP Inc. announced revenue growth of 7% to $15.6 billion for calendar year 4Q20 (HP Inc.'s fiscal 1Q21). Both Printing and Personal Systems groups delivered 7% revenue growth for the quarter, with remote work and learning ...
The intent to merge announced by Arcserve and StorageCraft represents an interesting combination of Arcserve's backup and recovery software, Arcserve's partnership with Sophos for data security, and StorageCraft's converged scale-out storage ...
本調査レポートは、国内パブリッククラウドサービス市場について、2021年1月下旬までに収集した情報を基に定性的かつ定量的な分析結果をまとめたものである。
国内パブリッククラウドサービス市場は、COVID-19の感染拡大の影響によって一時的に成長が鈍化するものの、高い成長を継続する。また、企業のDX／データ駆動型ビジネスに対する意識は高まっており、その取り組みも加速傾向にある。「ベンダーは、ユーザー企業のコスト削減と、DXイネーブラーとしてエコシステムを活用する事業の強化が重要となっている」と、IDC ...
初期市場の発展期を迎えた国内インダストリークラウド（IC）市場とその周辺領域において、多様な事業者およびITユーザーによる市場参入や支援サービスの発展、相互のパートナリング（協業）によるエコシステムの形成が進展している。本調査レポートでは、こうした事業者の取り組み動向について、各社のプロフィールと共に定性的にまとめている。
国内企業のDXが、先進的／超大手企業を中心とした初期フェーズから、より主流層の企業による普遍的な取り組みへと変化を遂げていく中で、多数の企業にとって参照可能な産業別の標準的なエンタープライズアーキテクチャの重要性は高まっていくとIDCではみている。「国内IC市場に関わるプレイヤーは、各産業におけるリファレンスとなるエンタープライズアーキテクチャを軸に自らの製品／サービスの価値提供の方法を定義し、新たなエコシステムの中での競争優位を確立する取り組みが求められるようになるであろう」とIDC ...
This Market Perspective outlines five of the key trends IDC believes will drive the enterprise networking market in 2021 and beyond.
"2021 will be a dynamic year in the enterprise networking market," says Brandon Butler, senior research ...
This IDC study defines and provides a framework for analyzing the installed base of storage capacity, the amount of the installed base of storage capacity that is utilized, and the portion of the installed base that is available for storing ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation summarizes over two dozen local government initiatives. The experiences of these IT teams from the East Coast to the West Coast provide five key takeaways for Canadian cities and technology vendors. These ...
This IDC Market Note examines Ricoh Europe's decision to relaunch its GelJet technology to augment its services and solutions and support remote workers. In the current climate of economic and social uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ...
This IDC Market Note discusses five significant announcements made in early 2021, four of which are specific to the database technology markets and one is more general. These announcements point to maturation and consolidation of IT (in ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a glance at the landscape of vendors playing in various segments of the IoT application development and deployment market. It includes vendors that offer IoT-specific software suites, as well as vendors that ...
This IDC Market Presentation examines the European office market and presents a return-to-work forecast, answering the questions of how, where, and when people will return to work. The presentation also provides insight into the shift to ...
This IDC Market Presentation examines the latest business sentiment among IT professionals in Europe regarding the role of sustainability and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles in day-to-day business operations and in ...
On February 16, 2021, VMware launched Customer Connect, a rebranding and unification effort of My VMware and other VMware customer experience-facing assets, tools, and platforms. The unification of these resources can help customers easily ...
Manufacturing around the world is undergoing operational transformation to take advantage of modern technologies both at the edge and at the cloud, bringing together unique insights to help improve efficiencies. Bringing together the manufacturing ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides insights into five key trends impacting the carrier networks infrastructure market in 2021 and beyond.
"Carrier networks are in a state of transition. The consumer and business demand on these networks ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides senior IT leaders with a detailed framework for integrated business portfolio management. An integrated business portfolio management strategy enables sustainable business and IT prioritization of ...
This IDC Special Study aims to understand enterprise readiness and attitudes toward deploying private cellular/5G/mobile networks and the partners they choose to design, build, run, and manage these networks.
"IDC believes services ...
With the COVID-19 pandemic, resiliency has become a business priority. But traditional approaches struggle to integrate business resiliency with new digital realities. IDC presents a digital resiliency framework to help CEOs, CIOs, and other ...
This IDC Perspective identifies six crucial questions that IT executives should ask vendors claiming to offer cybersecurity solutions that incorporate machine learning technology. These questions are intended to identify the data and algorithms ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a snapshot of the current data-driven policing landscape globally, including the definitions of the major segments of the market, the structure of the market, and the vendors within each segment.
This IDC Survey is an update to previously published COVID-19 Impact: 2020 Canadian Consumer Behaviours and Services (IDC #CA46166220, July 2020). It presents the ...
This IDC Survey presents the results of IDC's European IoT Decision-Maker Survey 2020, focusing on some key differences across European vertical markets. This survey assesses the current and planned deployment of IoT projects, including ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the European sample (n = 962) of IDC's Energy Insights Utilities Consumer Survey, which surveyed 1,359 energy customers from around the world. The survey was carried out in July 2020 and covered ...
Dynatrace held its annual user conference as a virtual event during the week of February 8–12, 2021. The event drew an estimated online attendance of 25,000 versus 2,500 physical attendees the previous year. During the event, the company ...
Performance Food Group CEO George Holm announced the company's environmental, social, and governance (ESG) Impact Study in December 2020. The study highlighted how CEOs and the C-suite are incorporating ESG goals into day-to-day business ...
This IDC study reports the actual IT spending in 2018 and 2019, and the IT spending forecasts from 2020 to 2014 by industry segment, company size, and annual turnover in the Japan IT market. The research analyzes IT spending by dividing ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses the case study of Coca-Cola European Partners as an example of how "safe return to office" technologies can support large organizations in resuming onsite operations.
"The protracted health crisis ...
This IDC Market Perspective features the branch of one, an emerging new architecture that has been precipitated by the impacts stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.
"While enterprises may have rushed into decisions of how to rapidly ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's Worldwide Security Spending Guide methodology and taxonomy. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide Security Spending Guide data deliverable and all of IDC's worldwide ...
This IDC study provides details of IDC's worldwide multicloud data management and protection taxonomy. The data protection market is highly dynamic, driven by new application workload deployments and cloud capabilities. The majority of IT ...