India data centre infrastructure hardware spending to reach $2.7 bn in 2018
08 May 2018
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Data centre infrastructure hardware enterprise spending in India is expected to reach $2.7 billion in 2018, a 2.6-per cent increase from 2017.
While hardware spending is set to grow moderately in 2018, enterprise spending on data centre infrastructure software will rise to $3.6 billion in 2018, a 10-per cent year-over-year increase, according to a Gartner study.
"Digital business initiatives are forcing infrastructure and operations leaders in India to adopt a hybrid IT infrastructure model that can deliver reliable, innovative and cost-effective solutions to the business in a timely manner," said Santhosh Rao, research director at Gartner. "This positions cloud computing as a critical component of the hybrid model."
In terms of data centre infrastructure hardware spending, end-user spending on networking equipment is expected to grow in 2018 as organisations modernise their local area network (LAN) and wide area network (WAN) infrastructure to support digital business needs. In contrast, on-premises server and storage spending will decline marginally as a result of public cloud migration.
"Technologies such as software-defined data centre are helping businesses optimise their existing resources, and as a result reducing overall spend on compute and storage resources," Rao added.
Spending on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in India is set to reach $1 billion in 2018, up 45.5 per cent year-over-year.
Today, most organisations have a cloud-first strategy, and new business applications are most likely to be developed and hosted using public cloud services.
In addition, the availability of hyperscale data centre such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure in India, and local providers ramping up to provide public cloud services, have become compelling reasons for Indian companies to move towards IaaS.
Another notable trend is an increase in the number of migrations of on-premises office suites to software as a service-based offerings, such as Google G suite and Microsoft Office 365. Indian businesses are expected to spend close to $275 million on cloud office suites in 2018, a 37 per cent year-over-year increase.
"While overall end-user spending on servers in India is expected to decline slightly, the hyperconverged integrated system (HCIS) segment of the server market is expected to grow further," said Rao. "HCIS witnessed wide-scale adoption in 2017 thanks to its operational simplicity. The momentum is expected to continue in 2018 with companies migrating their business-critical workloads to HCIS."
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