IDC's Worldwide Datacenter Infrastructure and Services Taxonomy, 2025

Description

This IDC study - the first of its kind to be published by IDC - categorizes the market for datacenter facilities based on datacenter facility types and operator and buyer personas. As with all taxonomy documents, this taxonomy will be continually revised and edited to ensure its applicability to market offerings."This inaugural IDC datacenter taxonomy provides the definitions and segmentations used by IDC analysts to track the global datacenter facilities and operations footprint and its impact on the world's economy," said Olga Yashkova, research manager, Enterprise Workloads and Datacenter research at IDC. "The document serves as a guideline for users to better understand IDC's datacenter research and provides a standardized framework for defining and metrics for tracking this foundational market."

Product Code: US53720925

IDC's Worldwide Datacenter Infrastructure and Services Taxonomy

Datacenter Infrastructure and Services Taxonomy Changes for 2025

Taxonomy Overview

Hierarchical Mapping: Datacenter Infrastructure and Services Primary/Secondary Markets

Definitions

Top-Level Datacenter Segmentation
- Datacenter Facilities
- Enabling Infrastructure
- IT Infrastructure
Personas
Datacenter Owner/Operator Segments
- Facility Ownership
- Services Model
- Operator Category
Datacenter IT Infrastructure Owner/Operator Segments
- Buyer Type
- Vertical
- Deployment Type
- Workload Category
- Infrastructure Operations
Datacenter Facility Segments
- Facility Location
- Build Status
- Build Type
- Build Purpose
- Management Type
Datacenter Enabling Infrastructure Dimensions
- Power Systems
- Cooling Systems
  - Liquid Cooled
  - Air Cooled
  - Hybrid
  - Other Cooling
- Racking Systems
- Other Enabling Infrastructure
  - Physical Security Systems
  - Cable Management Systems
  - Datacenter Infrastructure Management Systems
  - Inter-Datacenter Connectivity
  - Other Systems