Enterprises Worldwide Look to Outsourcing Providers to Manage Private and Hybrid Clouds
July 09 2021 - 9:09AM
Business Wire
ISG Provider Lens™ report sees a growing
interest in sourcing amid the COVID-19 pandemic
Enterprises across the globe are turning to cloud outsourcing
providers to manage their private and hybrid cloud infrastructure
because of increasingly complex IT environments, according to a new
report published today by Information Services Group (ISG) (Nasdaq:
III), a leading global technology research and advisory firm.
The 2021 ISG Provider Lens™ Next-Gen Private/Hybrid Cloud
– Data Center Services & Solutions Global Report finds many
enterprises focused on leveraging provider capabilities to control
the cost of managing their private and hybrid clouds.
“Enterprises worldwide have realized that outsourcing their
cloud infrastructure management is a great way to realign their IT
systems with business objectives in the most cost-effective
manner,” said Jan Erik Aase, partner and global leader, ISG
Provider Lens Research.
Outsourcing cloud management offers several other benefits
beyond cost containment, the report says. It gives companies access
to specific IT skills they may not have, and it allows them to
share resources such as engineers and security services at cloud
facilities.
Global interest in outsourcing has been growing amid the
COVID-19 pandemic. The most recent ISG Index™ shows spending on
infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) climbed to a record $8.2 billion
in the second quarter of 2021, up 41 percent year-over-year and 15
percent quarter-over quarter. Overall, global demand for IT and
business services, at $19.1 billion in Q2, reached a new record for
the third straight quarter, as enterprises accelerate their digital
transformations and move to the cloud.
The ISG Provider Lens™ report notes that while many companies
froze their outsourcing efforts at the start of the pandemic,
others are planning to use outsourcing services for the first time
in 2021.
The report sees steady global growth in the hyperconverged
infrastructure (HCI) market. The digitization of enterprises is
driving the convergence of physical and digital worlds and
eliminating the large abstraction layer between hardware and
software. Enterprises are using HCI for its high reliability,
capacity and scalability and for its simplified monitoring and
management capabilities. HCI also allows for better disaster
recovery and offers independent compute capabilities.
In addition, the cloud management platform (CMP) market has
changed significantly in recent years, the report says. Many of the
management tasks that were formerly performed through the CMP can
now be done easily with an individual cloud provider’s console.
CMP, which was an essential feature previously, has now become a
commodity, and hybrid cloud management vendors are expanding their
features to offer the broadest range of tools to users.
The 2021 ISG Provider Lens™ Next-Gen Private/Hybrid Cloud
– Data Center Services & Solutions Global Report evaluates the
capabilities of 29 providers across two quadrants: Hyperconverged
Systems and Hybrid Cloud Management Platforms.
The report names HPE and VMware as Leaders in both quadrants and
BMC, Cicso, Flexera, Morpheus Data, Nutanix and ServiceNow as
Leaders in one.
In addition, CloudBolt and StarWind were named Rising
Stars—companies with “promising portfolios” and “high future
potential” by ISG’s definition—in one quadrant each.
Customized versions of the report are available from Morpheus
Data and StarWind.
The 2021 ISG Provider Lens™ Next-Gen Private/Hybrid Cloud
– Data Center Services & Solutions Global Report is available
to subscribers or for one-time purchase on this webpage.
About ISG Provider Lens™ Research
The ISG Provider Lens™ Quadrant research series is the only
service provider evaluation of its kind to combine empirical,
data-driven research and market analysis with the real-world
experience and observations of ISG's global advisory team.
Enterprises will find a wealth of detailed data and market analysis
to help guide their selection of appropriate sourcing partners,
while ISG advisors use the reports to validate their own market
knowledge and make recommendations to ISG's enterprise clients. The
research currently covers providers offering their services
globally, across Europe, as well as in the U.S., Germany,
Switzerland, the U.K., France, the Nordics, Brazil and
Australia/New Zealand, with additional markets to be added in the
future. For more information about ISG Provider Lens research,
please visit this webpage.
A companion research series, the ISG Provider Lens Archetype
reports, offer a first-of-its-kind evaluation of providers from the
perspective of specific buyer types.
About ISG
ISG (Information Services Group) (Nasdaq: III) is a leading
global technology research and advisory firm. A trusted business
partner to more than 700 clients, including more than 75 of the
world’s top 100 enterprises, ISG is committed to helping
corporations, public sector organizations, and service and
technology providers achieve operational excellence and faster
growth. The firm specializes in digital transformation services,
including automation, cloud and data analytics; sourcing advisory;
managed governance and risk services; network carrier services;
strategy and operations design; change management; market
intelligence and technology research and analysis. Founded in 2006,
and based in Stamford, Conn., ISG employs more than 1,300
digital-ready professionals operating in more than 20 countries—a
global team known for its innovative thinking, market influence,
deep industry and technology expertise, and world-class research
and analytical capabilities based on the industry’s most
comprehensive marketplace data. For more information, visit
www.isg-one.com.
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