Will total $1.9 billion in 2016.
By Sreekanth A. Nair
The Indian IT infrastructure market will show a one percent increase and total $1.9 billion in 2016, says American think tank Gartner.
During the fifth annual Gartner Infrastructure, Operations, and Data Center Summit, going on in Mumbai, Gartner said: “The Indian IT infrastructure market will total $1.9 billion in 2016, a 1 percent increase from 2015.”
The IT infrastructure market that includes server, storage, and enterprise networking equipment, is expected to reach $2.13 billion by 2020, according to the estimates of Gartner.
“Indian enterprises will continue to focus on optimizing their infrastructure and operations budgets in 2016,” said Naveen Mishra, research director at Gartner.
“Optimization is primarily driven with an objective to create next generation data center architecture that can support the ever-increasing challenges of digital business. With the emergence of bimodal IT, there are a lot of investments made in Mode 1, and is an increasing focus on building Mode 2 infrastructure,” he added.
Mode 1 workloads are witnessing investments in areas such as cloud, software-defined storage and network coupled with integrated systems. Public cloud is increasingly becoming relevant for data center managers and IT leaders in India. Though it’s in the early days, DevOps is another area which is gaining traction in India within IT operations teams.
Enterprise networking is the biggest segment of the Indian IT infrastructure market with revenue expected to total $848 million in 2016. This is an area where enterprises are focusing heavily in terms of their optimization efforts and evaluating software driven networking, as this is becoming a barrier to a seamless digital experience.
“With a revenue projection of $253 million in 2016, storage investment will witness a decline from last year primarily due to improved price performance. Enterprises are increasingly investing in software-defined storage, evaluating alternate, cheaper devices, such as flash storage, which is helping them to contain the ever increasing storage costs,” ,” Mishra Said.”
While the storage segment is expected to rise to $253 million, server segment will grow to $834 million in 2016. The estimated figures for enterprise networking, storage, and servers for 2020 are $965 million, $281 million, and $891 million, respectively.