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The Indian information technology infrastructure market will reach $2.05 billion in 2012, showing a growth of 10.3 per cent over last year's figure, research firm Gartner Inc. says. This market, comprising of servers, storage and networking equipment, is expected to cross the $3 billion mark by 2016.
Revenue growth will be primarily driven by ongoing data center modernisation, as well as new data center build outs. Servers are the largest segment of the Indian IT infrastructure market, as revenue are forecast to reach $754.5 million in 2012, and grow to $967.2 million in 2016.
“Technology’s role in the enterprise is increasing and IT’s closer alignment with business, and vice versa, is a topic of much focus within Indian enterprises today. Soon there will be a time when there is no IT strategy, only a business strategy, as leading CIO’s are seeing technology as a business enabler and a engine for innovation,” said Mr Aman Munglani, research director at Gartner.
Gartner has come out with the latest estimates ahead of the Gartner Infrastructure, Operations and Data Center Summit to be held in Mumbai on May 15.
The external controller-based storage disk market in India is expected to grow from $439.4 million in end-user spending to $842 million in 2016. This is the fastest growing segment within the IT infrastructure market. The enterprise network equipment market in India, which includes enterprise LAN and WAN equipment, is expected to grow from $861 million in 2012 to $1.2 billion in 2016.
“The key growth driver for the data center market is the ongoing investment in large captive data centres. Indian organisations are heavily focusing on optimising their infrastructure capacity by implementing virtualisation and incorporating newer ways of data center design,” Mr Munglani said.
Though India is in the early stages of cloud adoption, cloud service providers will also be a key contributor to the infrastructure consumption, especially for commodity type, scalable technologies, such as scale out systems and extreme low energy servers, he said.
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