Cloud, Mobility, Big Data Key To Growth In Managed Services Space
January 9, 2015
Grazed from CRN. Author: Lindsey O’Donnell.
Solution providers are expecting accelerated growth in the managed services space but stress that MSPs must transform as the need for cloud, mobility and big data solutions rises. A study released Wednesday by research and consulting firm MarketsAndMarkets predicted the demand for managed services will jump drastically in the next five years, with the global market slated to grow from $101.2 billion in 2014 to $193.3 billion in 2019.
Kyle Cebull, CMO of Fort Myers, Fla.-based solution provider Entech, said customers are looking to managed services to increase efficiency and reduce in-house costs. “Managed service providers are a more sophisticated way of handling information technology,” he said. “Companies are becoming more sophisticated in general about looking for new ways to excel…
Those companies who do the same thing and don’t change are the same ones who are dying.”…
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