At the Gartner Infrastructure, Operations and Data Center Summit, held in Mumbai, the Connecticut research and advisory firm said that India’s IT infrastructure market will total $1.9 billion in 2016, a 1 percent increase from the previous year. This market includes server, storage and enterprise networking equipment, report EMSNow.
“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.”
Enterprise networking is the biggest segment within the Indian IT infrastructure market with revenue expected to total $848 million in 2016, according to Gartner analysts.
“With a revenue projection of $253 million in 2016, storage investment will witness a decline from last year primarily due to improved price performance,” added Mishra. “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.”
