New report on the outsourcing market for private clouds, hybrid clouds and data centers

Information Services Group (ISG) (Nasdaq: III), a global technology research and advisory firm, has released a research study that examines the large and growing market for private cloud outsourcing services, Hybrid Clouds and data centers investigated.

The results of the ISG study will be published in a comprehensive 'ISG Provider Lens' report entitled Next-Gen Private / Hybrid Cloud - Data Center Services & Solutions 2021, to be released in July 2021. The report will cover providers of a range of private cloud, hybrid cloud and data center services, including managed services, managed hosting and colocation services.

ISG distributed surveys to more than 315 public and hybrid cloud technology and service providers. A list of identified vendors and providers, as well as more details about the study, can be found in this digital brochure (PDF). Organizations not listed as public and hybrid cloud providers can contact ISG to request inclusion in the study.

Corporate buyers can use information from the report to evaluate their current supplier relationships, potential new engagements and available offerings, while ISG consultants can use the information to recommend suppliers to clients on the buy side of the business.

The ISG Provider Lens report will cover the global public and hybrid cloud market and examine products and services available in the U.S., Germany, the U.K., Switzerland, Brazil and the Nordic countries.

ISG analysts Shashank Rajmane, Manoj Chandra Jha, Dr. Nils Kaufmann, Prakash N., Wolfgang Heinhaus, Katharina Kummer and Pedro L. Bicudo Maschio will serve as authors of the report.

Working with ISG's global consultants, the research team will create five quadrants that represent the services and products that the typical enterprise customer buys in the public and hybrid cloud space, based on ISG's experience working with its customers. The five quadrants that will be covered include:

managed hosting - includes providers that offer standalone hosting solutions for enterprises, using their own facilities and infrastructure or those of third-party providers. The managed hosting providers assessed are responsible for the day-to-day management and maintenance of data center equipment such as servers, storage, operating systems, and connectivity to the external network.

Colocation Services - Evaluation of providers offering standardized data center operations as colocation services. Participating companies provide community access points for various hosting providers, system integrators, network operators or telecom providers and end users. Enterprise customers using colocation services expect standardized and sophisticated data center setup, many network provider options, low latency and high Bandwidth at affordable prices to provide users with rich content or critical, latency-sensitive information.

Hyperconverged Systems (Software Vendors) - Analysis of vendors offering hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) with preconfigured software and blueprints for scaling server and storage clusters. An HCI can centrally manage a scalable enterprise cloud, on-premises infrastructure and private clouds based on public cloud virtual machines. An HCI manages network, disk, memory, CPU and GPU cores and forms clusters or processing nodes.

Hybrid Cloud Management Platforms - Looking at the providers of software to build and operate infrastructures and provide a robust integrated management platform for on-premises, public, private and hybrid clouds. This tool provides consistency across cloud environments and enables organizations to achieve cost-effective, automated and standardized application deployments across multi-cloud environments with robust container capabilities.

An archetype report is also published as part of the study. This report, unique to ISG, is a study of typical buyer types of public and hybrid cloud services as observed by ISG consultants.