Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Datamonitor
Published: November 2006
Product Code: R313-18349Description Introduction
This brief explores the attitudes of end-users toward outsourcing infrastructure to IT services vendors. Technologies covered include data center services, desktop, maintenance/support/break-fix, network communications and security and privacy. Understanding the end-user opinion is key to success in an increasingly competitive IT services market.
Scope- Datamonitor's survey of 1,100 IT decision makers highlights attitudes to outsourcing revealing the short, mid and long term opportunity for vendors.
- Covers five key technology areas. Data center services, desktop, maintenance/support/break-fix, network communications and security and privacy
- Survey results are explored by country and by industry vertical revealing specific trends.
Highlights
The focus of this report is highlighting the key trends and attitudes toward outsourcing infrastructure services. Uncovering this information provides vendors with a clear view of the short, mid and long term opportunities in this market.
Reasons to Purchase- Understand what IT decision makers are thinking about infrastructure outsourcing services.
- Discover who is, and isn't, buying IT services by country and industry vertical.
- Learn which trends matter and what Datamonitor's advice to vendors is.
Table of Contents - DATAMONITOR VIEW
- CATALYST
- SUMMARY
- METHODOLOGY
- ANALYSIS
- Network, voice/data convergence and security services are the highest growth markets
- The need to roll-out next generation networks and secure them is the key driver
- Almost 40% of organizations are likely to outsource aspects of their infrastructure in the next two years
- Security and privacy outsourcing is key piece of next generation network roll out
- Summary
- APPENDIX
- Definitions
- Supplementary data
- Further reading
- Ask the analyst
- List of Tables
- Table 1: Likely to outsource infrastructure in the next two years by technology area
- Table 2: Likely to outsource network & voice/data convergence in the next two years
- Table 3: Likely to outsource security and privacy in the next two years
- Table 4: Likely to outsource maintenance, support, break-fix in the next two years
- Table 5: Likely to outsource storage in the next two years
- Table 6: Likely to outsource mainframe and servers in the next two years
- List of Figures
- Figure 1: Likely to outsource infrastructure in the next two years by technology area
- Figure 2: Likely to outsource network & voice/data convergence in the next two years
- Figure 3: Likely to outsource security and privacy in the next two years
- Figure 4: Likely to outsource maintenance, support, break-fix in the next two years
- Figure 5: Likely to outsource storage in the next two years
- Figure 6: Likely to outsource mainframe and servers in the next two years
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