Gartner’s top 10 trends that will affect infrastructure and operations in five years include virtualization and cloud computing. Additionally, IDC predicts that by 2015, 20 per cent of enterprise application spending will be hosted on the cloud.
Given the current global economic situation, IT leaders in Singapore and the rest of Asia will continue to look at reducing costs and achieving maximum return on investments in 2012. Speed to market will also continue to be critical to IT deployment as companies will focus on ensuring growth by creating new customers and expanding into new markets. As such, achieving strategic priorities through outsourcing IT infrastructure will be a prominent trend in Asia come 2012.
A recent independent study commissioned by Savvis that surveyed global IT decision makers showed that 27 per cent of IT leaders plan to outsource their IT infrastructure in 2012. This number looks set to grow over the next few years, especially in Singapore. In fact, the survey found that within the next 10 years, 75 per cent of Singapore IT decision makers are expected to outsource the majority of their IT infrastructure and more than half of these leaders will opt to move their infrastructure to the cloud.
Outsourcing IT infrastructure allows companies to focus on their core business while ensuring the quality of their IT systems and operation. The many other benefits of outsourcing IT include lower costs, the ability to scale up and down, access to specialised services, increased competitive edge and staffing flexibility.
Singapore leads the shift to IT outsourcing in Asia
When compared to companies in the US, Singapore companies’ lack of legacy systems urges leaders to outsource IT as quickly as they can. Singapore is catching up with the mature markets, like Australia, which have led the way in outsourcing IT infrastructure. China and India are only slightly behind Singapore and we are witnessing an increase in demand for managed services, specifically in India, as more enterprises seek advanced IT infrastructure capabilities.
The rise of the pay-as-you-go model
As companies adjust to and recover from the global recession, business leaders are no longer interested in just keeping their IT operations running smoothly. They are now seeking to implement the appropriate solutions that will help them adapt and grow. Companies want capacity when they need it, and they prefer to only purchase it when they want it. As such, we are seeing more IT outsourcing vendors moving toward a pay-as-you-go model that provides more flexibility and agility in companies’ IT deployment.
Source:http://www.mis-asia.com/mgmt/outsourcing/blog-outsourcing-it-a-prominent-trend-across-asia-in-2012/
