IDC's Worldwide Dedicated Cloud Infrastructure and Services Taxonomy, 2023

IDC's Worldwide Dedicated Cloud Infrastructure and Services Taxonomy

• Figure: Dedicated Cloud Infrastructure and Services Primary Segments

Dedicated Cloud Infrastructure and Services Taxonomy Changes for 2023

Taxonomy Overview

Definitions

• What Is a Dedicated Cloud?

• Table: Dedicated Cloud Infrastructure or as-a-Service Attributes

• 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

• Figure: Dedicated Cloud Infrastructure Segments

• Physical and Virtual Computing Software

• Operating Systems and Subsystems

• Software-Defined Compute

• Storage Software

• Systems Management Software

• Dedicated Cloud Infrastructure as a Service

• Figure: Dedicated Cloud Infrastructure as a Service Segments

• Infrastructure Hardware as a Service

• Infrastructure Software as a Service

• Dedicated Cloud Infrastructure Services

• Figure: Dedicated Cloud Infrastructure Services Segments

• Professional Life-Cycle Services

• Cloud Professional Services

• Cloud Managed Support Services

• Managed Cloud Infrastructure Services

• Dedicated Cloud Infrastructure and Services Additional Attributes

• Figure: 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)

• Figure: Cloud Control Plane

• 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

• Dedicated Cloud Infrastructure and Services: Common Segments

• Figure: Cloud Infrastructure as a Service Classification

• Dedicated Cloud Infrastructure

• Dedicated Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (at Customer Premises)

• Dedicated Hosted Cloud as a Service

• Infrastructure Stack

• Figure: Infrastructure Stack

• Examples of Popular Services

• Table: Examples of Dedicated Cloud Infrastructure, Infrastructure as a Service, and Shared (Public Cloud) Infrastructure Services

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