Managed Services

451 Research has extensively covered service providers and their offerings even as they move further up the stack with a variety of cloud services from new and emerging technology vendors. While web hosting, operational management and application services remain popular with our clients, new kinds of 'as a Service' offerings are appearing to meet new demands. We get an increasing amount of client inquiries around managed security, cyber disaster-recovery services, managed hosting, distribution channel dynamics and more.

As private equity and venture capital investment in this space has grown, we have seen a sharp increase in client interest, as well as strategic Advisory projects with companies looking to move into managed service provision. We cover key managed services sectors via in-depth reports, encompassing supply and demand, disruptive trends and regional adoption in conjunction with our Voice of The Enterprise Hosting & Cloud Managed Services research.

Market Insight

Enterprise spending plans show shrinking role for non-cloud hosted infrastructure

The use of cloud-based technologies in IT operations is widespread to the point that non-cloud types of hosted infrastructure (such as dedicated server environments) are absent from the spending plans of many IT decision-makers.

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Technology & Business Insight

Multi-Tenant Datacenter Global Providers 2017

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Market Insight

MSP metrics for profitable and sustainable growth

The common adage of 'what gets measured gets managed' is repeated in businesses of all sizes and types – particularly in the service provider space.

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Market Monitor & Forecast

Managed Security Services Revenue to Exceed $17bn by 2021

Managed Security Services entail the outsourcing of some or all IT security functions to a service provider that monitors and manages the environment from an offsite location. Included in our definition are providers that take over management of on-premises security technology belonging to the customer, or that deploy security technology to the customer’s premises and manage it from off-site.

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Market Insight

Zscaler embraces MSP channel to deliver security as a service

Cloud security platform provider Zscaler believes that as applications continue to move to the cloud, on-premises network security will eventually become irrelevant.

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Voice of the Enterprise

Hosting & Cloud Managed Services, Organizational Dynamics

Combining a proprietary panel of more than 60,000 senior IT buyers with our robust data-collection methodologies, 451 Research's Voice of the Enterprise: Hosting & Cloud Managed Services tracks and analyzes the disruption occurring in the market today and exposes the major opportunities for enterprises, IT vendors, suppliers and investors.

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Market Insight

From colo to cloud: Climbing the services stack - Introduction

Over the past few years, multi-tenant datacenters (MTDCs) have been faced with a choice – scale up with larger facilities and geo-diversified portfolios, or scale out with service additions.

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