With A Forecast of $39.4 Billion in 2006, Research and Markets, a market research resource, says hosting represents the largest opportunity for IT Services Providers

January 4, 2007 – (TopHosts News Brief) – Research and Markets announced it will add Infrastructure Outsourcing and Managed Services to their offering.

The market research firm says outsourcing enterprise infrastructure can refocus a business on its core competencies while reducing costs. The report outlines the IT services provider opportunity in the market for infrastructure outsourcing and managed services. It identifies broad trends in the core areas of enterprise infrastructure covering networking, hosting, storage, security, desktop and maintenance/break-fix services.

The research firm describes the market as mature, with markets such as networking, desktop and maintenance/break-fix services being sizeable, if relatively slow-growing revenue opportunities. However, security, storage and hosting services are all identified as all offering respectable growth potential going forwards.
With a forecast of $39.4 billion in 2006, the global market for hosting services represents the largest opportunity for IT services providers within the broader managed and outsourced infrastructure services market.

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c47880.