Analysis of RFID in the Data Center Market

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Market Overview—Definitions

Market Scope

Data centers, both internal and remote, are considered. Various data center IT assets that are being tracked using RFID are taken into consideration.

The scope of this study includes market forecasts developed for the following regions: the Americas; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA); and Asia-Pacific.

The study includes market size, growth rates, and revenue forecasts for the total active and passive RFID markets, the main vertical markets, and the geographic regions mentioned above.

The base year for this study is 2010. Revenue and revenue growth rates are provided for 2007 through 2017.

Analysis covers key market forces such as drivers and restraints to evaluate their influences on growth.

Detailed analyses of the applications market, the competitive structure of the market, and key industry participants are provided.

All prices quoted in the study are in U.S. dollars unless otherwise specified.

Data Center: A centralized repository for storing physical or virtual data that hosts computer systems and necessary technology infrastructure and storage systems such as servers, routers, load balancers, firewalls, drives, distribution switches, mainframes, and storage.

IT Asset: The various storage and computing devices in a data center.

Passive RFID: A type of RFID technology in which tags are not battery operated and must be activated by readers to access the information on them.

Active RFID: A type of RFID technology in which tags contain a power supply in the form of batteries that allow the tags to send signals.