This IDC study takes into consideration the changing dynamics and business models emerging in the Internet datacentre market, and researches the trends and propositions available from service providers.

"Datacentres have traveled a long way from being just standalone enterprise datacentres within organisations to becoming Web-enabled and now moving on a path to becoming virtual or utility datacentres. Service providers offer many hosted datacentres with more flexibility, business value, and various pricing and delivery models. These outsourced datacentres may emerge as the winners as we see more and more organisations using outsourcing to reduce cost of IT and focus on their business objectives," says Aprajita Sharma, analyst, Outsourcing and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), IDC Australia.