Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Data Center Outsourcing

Outsourcing Data Center operation is gaining its ground in India. Not only large enterprise but SME's are also outsourcing their some or full data center infrastructure to third party.

Estimates put the third party data center market including co-location services, hosting services and managed services in India at $150 million [2007]. With a projection of an average CAGR of 36% over the next two years, the verticals that outsource the most are BFSI and manufacturing together accounting for about 53% of the market.

Benefits of Data Center outsourcing:

  • Lower TCO
  • Uptime guarantee for server and network through continuous power, redundancy etc.
  • Better security and scalability
  • 24X7 support
  • Compliance

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