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Managed Services Are Moving Toward Industrialized Service Delivery Models and Cost Optimization
In the last four quarters, enterprises marginally restricted their spend on cloud technologies and business models to bring innovation and value to their end users. They are benefiting from using cloud computing environments and leveraging cutting-edge technologies like AI, analytics and RPA, which are speeding the rate and pace of technological improvements and UX. Hybrid cloud has become the norm in the last few years, with private cloud having the lion’s share. With the growing demand for hybrid cloud solutions, IT infrastructure environments have become more complex and difficult to manage. Enterprises are now more open to outsourcing these operations to service providers that have significant expertise in managing hybrid cloud infrastructure for enterprises in multiple industries. Some of the key variables influencing outsourcing decisions are the integration and consolidation of data centers, server performance, virtualization, containerization, governance and compliance, downtime and data loss. ISG observed that due to inflation and several economic and political downturns, enterprises were seen spending less or holding or pushing their infrastructure transformation engagements to the next year. They are more cautious and strategic in their outsourcing decisions to manage their costs effectively in this volatile economic scenario. This is corroborated by our ISG Index numbers, present in the Introduction part of the report.