The economic downturn has accelerated the trend of managed web hosting services .Nowadays many small and medium business operations are moving their offsite IT hostings to professional data centre facilities.Figures show an increase in managed hosting and several other external services in the recent times.
While dedicated hosting has long been an option for the companies,Managed hosting is a fairly new idea that is an additional option for the companies that have a strong online presence to require a dedicated server.Cost-saving benefits achieved by the companies and on-demand services that are included in most new hosting contracts aid in the growth of the trend.
Meanwhile,Gartner has revealed that 43 per cent of the European companies are categoric that the world will see more outsourcing this year,with 40 per cent of them intended to mark a swift increase in their balance sheets by spending on the external IT services hugely.It also suggests that software as a service,cloud system infrastructure services alongwith managed hosting will gain a momentum due to various on demand infrastructure benefits.
The vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner,Claudio Da Rold said that "European businesses and their service providers need to optimise their multi-sourced environments, while increasingly adopting industrialised IT services".
Commvault,one of the prestigious companies whose reputation in the storage industry is as that of BMW's amongst cars has completely integrated API-driven public cloud storage witth Simpana.It announced,earlier this month that virtualization solutions are also on the rise,with 46 percent of companies approached having reported that atleast half of their networking infrastructure has been virtualized.
