MUMBAI: The Indian IT infrastructure market is set to be worth $2.1 billion by 2013, growing at 9.7 percent over the previous year as per research firm Gartner.
The Indian IT infrastructure market comprises of server, storage and networking equipment. Gartner said India IT Infrastructure spending will reach $2.3 billion by 2014.
The report which has been released at the ongoing Gartner Infrastructure, Operations and Data Center Summit in the city said, The Indian IT infrastructure market is driven by hardware refresh, optimization and consolidation efforts. New data centre build out, primarily driven by service providers, is providing added impetus to this market. The server market accounts for the biggest chunk of the market totaling $753 million in 2013 and forecast to total $962.3 million in 2017.
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External controller-based storage is the fastest growing segment with revenue growing from $374.2 million in 2013 to $702.3 million in 2017. While managing the storage demands is one of the biggest problems faced by Indian users, approaches such as tiered storage are helping to optimize storage needs. Integrating software driven intelligence in the storage market is another phenomenon which is gaining traction in India.
“Despite global economic challenges, India provides strong growth opportunities across segments including infrastructure. Infrastructure alone is expected to surpass $2.9 billion in 2017. The Nexus of Forces- big data, cloud, social and mobility- are finding real-time business driven use cases which is bringing a paradigm shift in the way IT is delivering business impact and hence, changing the role of an Indian CIO,” Gartner research director Naveen Mishra said.
