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The purpose of this market landscape report is to expand upon the previous ESG Market Landscape Report, Virtual Computing Infrastructures, wherein ESG described the economic and operational drivers to virtual computing infrastructure (VCI) adoption; laid out the various means of procuring VCI—do-it-yourself (DIY) and integrated computing platforms (ICPs)—and delineated between ICP consumption models (reference architecture vs. pre-configured solutions); highlighted solution tradeoffs and use cases; provided best practices for planning and procuring VCI; and described the ICP vendor landscape. Having established market taxonomy and high-level strategy, ESG sought to update its inaugural VCI report, focusing exclusively on ICPs—specifically, what factors are continuing to drive adoption; how are vendors engineering ICPs and adding value beyond packaging and branding; and how are vendors bringing these solutions to market?
In order to assess IT spending priorities over the next 12-18 months, ESG recently surveyed 540 IT professionals representing midmarket (100 to 999 employees) and enterprise-class (1,000 employees or more) organizations in North America and Western…