Ideas International (original) (raw)

Founded in 1981, Ideas International (IDEAS) was an IT analyst company specializing in technology insight and comparisons of competitive server and storage technology. Acquired by Gartner in June 2012. Clients included IT end-users and IT vendors. IDEAS was the creator of RPE2, a computer benchmark that compares the relative performance of servers. IDEAS was an associate member of the Transaction Processing Performance Council and a member of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. On 1 August 2012, Gartner acquired Ideas International.