According to Gartner, the Indian IT infrastructure market comprising server, storage and networking equipment is expected to reach $1.9 billion in 2014, witnessing a four per cent growth over 2013.
In 2014, the growth in the IT infrastructure market will be primarily driven by hyper scale and data centre modernisation initiatives. Further, the Indian IT infrastructure is poised to be a $2.35 billion market by 2017 with companies investing significantly in mobility, cloud and big data.
Over the next few years, Indian enterprises will be focusing on building intelligent data centers which focus on optimising existing hardware assets by using additional software capabilities. This in turn will bring into focus newer trends such as public cloud, and integrated systems.
The research firm further states that within the Indian IT infrastructure market, server revenue is expected to reach $663 million in 2014, witnessing a one per cent decline from 2013. The server market is expected to return to positive growth in 2015 when revenue is expected to reach $697 million.
Gartner forecasts that infrastructure spending in the enterprise networking is expected to generate revenues worth $887 million in 2014. Data center consolidation and virtualisation along with cloud and mobility are going to be the key trends influencing network purchases. There is great potential for both users and vendors to leverage some of the emerging technologies to be ready for the future. Meanwhile, the storage market is on pace to reach $384 million this year, witnessing an 11 per cent increase over 2013. Storage modernisation and consolidation, backup and recovery, and disaster recovery are going to be few of the key growth drivers for the storage market.
