India IT infrastructure spending to reach $2.2 bn in 2017: Gartner

IT infrastructure spending in India will total $2.2 billion in 2017, a 1.5-per cent increase from 2016, according to study by global research and analysis firm Gartner.

IT infrastructure includes server, storage and enterprise networking equipment.

''Digital transformation is bringing in new sets of challenges and opportunities for Indian infrastructure leaders. They have the unique opportunity of being at the helm of this shift within their organization, provided they align with the imperatives of the digital world. Modern, lean, agile and secure infrastructure is the business need,'' said Naveen Mishra, research director at Gartner.

Cloud computing is expected to become pervasive as an infrastructure layer, given its elasticity and it creates a need for IT leaders to plan for managing various cloud options.

Enterprise networking is the biggest segment within the Indian IT infrastructure market with revenue expected to reach $1.1 billion in 2017. Software defined networking, software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) are other options which organisations are evaluating while they build their next generation network infrastructure, to enable a seamless digital experience for customers, employees and partners.

''With a revenue projection of $352 million in 2017, storage investment will witness a small increase primarily driven by technology alternatives such as software-defined storage, and flash-based storage coupled with continued focus on storage area network- (SAN) based storage,'' said Mishra.

IT Infrastructure Spending in India by Segment (Millions of U.S. Dollars)