TechMarketView 2012 Predictions - Infrastructure Services

In the fourth of TechMarketView's series of predictions for 2012, Phil Codling picks out the headlines for the UK infrastructure services market.

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1. Cloud-based infrastructure services will grow at double digit rates.

But where cloud is replacing an existing service, it’s a more-for-less substitution that is shrinking the overall market. 2012 is another year of clients putting costs first.

2. Public cloud won’t make it to the mainstream.

Private cloud remains the preferred option in 2012. Small businesses and niche/non-critical applications provide the exceptions to this rule.

3. Bring Your Own Technology becomes a market opportunity.

Forward-thinking players will seize the chance to help CIOs turn BYOT into a positive for their organisation. Meanwhile the technology in question will include a major new entrant, as Amazon “Fires up” competition in the tablet space.

4. Channel conflicts will increase.

Not least because product companies will keep looking for ways to monetise their technology by delivering services. Services providers that resell their kit won’t approve.

5. A Top 20 player will succumb to industry consolidation.

CSC remains a prominent candidate for acquisition, but some of the more specialist UK-based firms like 2e2 and Phoenix speculation will be the subject of M&A speculation too.

Posted by Phil Codling at '09:28' - Tagged: infrastructure