The tailwinds for infrastructure management

The infrastructure management services market is holding strong. Even during the recession, the IMS market underwent a reinvention of sorts with the adoption of remote management and asset-light models. Many new service providers laid out offerings in the IMS area leveraging heavily on the global delivery model. Infrastructure management really took off in the ‘offshore’ sense in the last three years. The infrastructure management market is expected to touch $180 billion by 2013. This is accompanied by the forecast that global IT purchases will rise 7.1 percent in 2011 to $1.7 trillion and the growth is likely to be sustained, according to new forecast data from Forrester Research.

This is accompanied by the forecast that global IT purchases will rise 7.1 percent in 2011 to $1.7 trillion and the growth is likely to be sustained, according to new forecast data from Forrester Research.

Combined with advances in virtualization, utility-based computing, standards-based infrastructure, data center transformation, and cloud computing, the outlook for IMS continues to be dynamic and exciting.

Industry Drivers

Leaders in IMS help buyers in transforming their IT from being a business support tool to one that adds business value. In terms of economics, IMS helps to variabilize their IT costs.

Main drivers for this market include companies´ focus in reducing operational costs and improving operational systems, the increasing confidence in medium/long term outsourcing deals after economy recovery and cloud computing concept, including virtualization technologies,” says Marcelo Kawanami, Frost & Sullivan ICT Industry Manager.

The market for IT infrastructure management services is evolving rapidly as enterprises are aiming at cutting down spends on buying and maintaining infrastructure resources internally.

This coupled with the ease of global delivery offered by infrastructure service providers is resulting in a surge of demand for outsourcing.

In the recent years, a major development has been the convergence of the Remote Infrastructure Management Outsourcing (RIMO) and traditional Infrastructure Outsourcing (IO) models. The RIMO model is gaining a wider acceptance with buyers, resulting in a larger number of high-value offshore infrastructure management outsourcing deals, including new engagements signed by traditional infrastructure suppliers.

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