The International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Integrated Infrastructure and Platforms Tracker found an impressive 68.5% year-over-year factory value growth in the integrated infrastructure and platforms market during the third calendar quarter of 2013 (2Q13), with system sales totaling $1.4 billion.

Integrated platform systems are integrated systems that are sold with additional pre-integrated packaged software and customized system engineering optimized to enable such functions as application development software, databases, testing, and integration tools.

"The strong growth in the integrated systems market has become a real bright spot within the IT industry," said Eric Sheppard, Research Director, Storage. "Server, storage, and networking vendors have clearly created a set of offerings that resonate very well with datacenter operators looking for the next level of infrastructure efficiency for their highly virtualized environments."

"The Integrated systems market continues to gain momentum and we saw strong adoption across all categories in the third quarter," said Jed Scaramella, Research Director, Enterprise Servers. "A greater number of IT customers are realizing the value proposition of integrated systems and how they can simplify IT operations. IDC expects integrated systems to be on many customers' radar during purchasing cycles in 2014."

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