International Data Corporation (IDC) released the latest results from its Worldwide Semiannual System Management Software Tracker. The Tracker monitors more than 110 vendors globally in a total of 49 countries, providing biannual market size, vendor share, and forecast data for the six functional markets that comprise the system management software market in IDC's software taxonomy.
"The system management software market achieved double-digit growth during the first half of 2011; this was an improvement of almost 70% compared to the results from a year ago," said Wilvin Chee, Associate VP, Worldwide Software Trackers.
"The Change and Configuration Management (CCM) and Workload Scheduling and Automation (WSA) markets maintained the best growth among the functional, but the strongest gains were in the Event Management market, fueled significantly by the US, Japan, and CEMA region."
Among the six functional markets, three had revenues of more than $1 billion for the first half of 2011 (1H11). These were CCM, WSA, and Performance Management.
All three markets experienced very strong growth in the US, while other regions such as Western Europe and CEMA also had good year-over-year growth.
Canada and Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) had somewhat lower growth in 1H11 compared to previous cycles, but maintained double-digit momentum. Japan and Latin America held steady growth in most markets.
"The first half 2011 results show continued healthy growth in worldwide system management software revenue," said Tim Grieser, Program VP, Enterprise System Management Software. "Growth was fueled by increases in IT spending due to the continuing economic recovery and associated hardware refresh and upgrade cycles, and new investments in managing virtualized and cloud infrastructures. Automation to simplify and optimize IT operational costs was a key factor."
IBM, BMC, and HP held the top 3 spots in terms of revenue share in 1H11, though none were able to generate growth exceeding the market average.
IBM and BMC had solid growth in the WSA market while HP achieved its best gains in CCM and Problem Management markets.
Meanwhile, a number of vendors, including Microsoft, Hitachi, NEC, VMWare, Symantec, and Dell, enjoyed above market average growth in 1H11. Microsoft, NEC, and VMware performed well in all the system management software markets where they compete.
IDC also observed that a total of 14 vendors achieved worldwide revenues of more than $100 million in 1H11. That was one more than a year ago; the newcomer being Citrix, which had strong growth, particularly in CCM, its primary market.
IDC's Worldwide Semiannual System Management Software Tracker provides total market size and vendor share for the following technology areas: event management; workload scheduling and automation; output management; performance management; change and configuration management; and problem management.
Measurement for this Tracker is total software revenue, which includes license plus maintenance plus SaaS and other subscription revenue. The Tracker covers up to 49 countries in total and monitors the performance of close to 120 vendors in the market.
Annual five-year market forecasts for this Tracker are updated semiannually and include five-year annual market projections. Forecasts are available at worldwide, regional, and country levels.
The Latest
As businesses and individuals increasingly seek to leverage artificial intelligence (AI), the cloud has become a critical enabler of AI's transformative power. Cloud platforms allow organizations to seamlessly scale their AI capabilities, hosting complex machine learning (ML) models while providing the flexibility needed to meet evolving business needs ... However, the promise of AI in the cloud brings significant challenges ...
The business case for digital employee experience (DEX) is clear: more than half (55%) of office workers say negative experiences with workplace technology impact their mood/morale and 93% of security professionals say prioritizing DEX has a positive impact on an organization's cybersecurity efforts, according to the 2024 Digital Employee Experience Report: A CIO Call to Action, a new report from Ivanti ...
For IT leaders, a few hurdles stand in the way of AI success. They include concerns over data quality, security and the ability to implement projects. Understanding and addressing these concerns can give organizations a realistic view of where they stand in implementing AI — and balance out a certain level of overconfidence many organizations seem to have — to enable them to make the most of the technology's potential ...
For the last 18 years — through pandemic times, boom times, pullbacks, and more — little has been predictable except one thing: Worldwide cloud spending will be higher this year than last year and a lot higher next year. But as companies spend more, are they spending more intelligently? Just how efficient are our modern SaaS systems? ...
The OpenTelemetry End-User SIG surveyed more than 100 OpenTelemetry users to learn more about their observability journeys and what resources deliver the most value when establishing an observability practice ... Regardless of experience level, there's a clear need for more support and continued education ...
A silo is, by definition, an isolated component of an organization that doesn't interact with those around it in any meaningful way. This is the antithesis of collaboration, but its effects are even more insidious than the shutting down of effective conversation ...
New Relic's 2024 State of Observability for Industrials, Materials, and Manufacturing report outlines the adoption and business value of observability for the industrials, materials, and manufacturing industries ... Here are 8 key takeaways from the report ...
For mission-critical applications, it's often easy to justify an investment in a solution designed to ensure that the application is available no less than 99.99% of the time — easy because the cost to the organization of that app being offline would quickly surpass the cost of a high availability (HA) solution ... But not every application warrants the investment in an HA solution with redundant infrastructure spanning multiple data centers or cloud availability zones ...
The edge brings computing resources and data storage closer to end users, which explains the rapid boom in edge computing, but it also generates a huge amount of data ... 44% of organizations are investing in edge IT to create new customer experiences and improve engagement. To achieve those goals, edge services observability should be a centerpoint of that investment ...
The growing adoption of efficiency-boosting technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) helps counteract staffing shortages, rising labor costs, and talent gaps, while giving employees more time to focus on strategic projects. This trend is especially evident in the government contracting sector, where, according to Deltek's 2024 Clarity Report, 34% of GovCon leaders rank AI and ML in their top three technology investment priorities for 2024, above perennial focus areas like cybersecurity, data management and integration, business automation and cloud infrastructure ...
