IDC's Emerging Workloads Infrastructure Stacks and Deployments will cover evolving infrastructure approaches for emerging workloads such as augmented and virtual reality (e.g., metaverse), next-generation internet technologies (e.g., Web3), distributed and immutable ledger technologies (e.g., blockchain), decentralized physical infrastructure (DePin), edge-native workloads (automotive, robotics, etc.), and others. This program will explore (and, where necessary, size) the infrastructure for these workloads and potential opportunities for vendors choosing to participate in these emerging markets. This program will take a high-level view of infrastructure trends and is designed to complement other IDC services that track areas such as quantum computing, high-performance computing, artificial intelligence and analytics, and more broadly, enterprise workloads.
This program also looks at infrastructure energy consumption and carbon emissions of servers and storage systems, drilling down to an individual workload level.