IT infrastructure spending in India will increase 1.5 percent to $2.2 billion in 2017, according to Gartner.
The IT infrastructure market includes server, storage and enterprise networking equipment.
Gartner analysts are providing the latest trends shaping the future of the data centermarket during the sixth annual Gartner Infrastructure, Operations and Data Center Summit, which is taking place here through Friday at the Hotel Renaissance, Mumbai.
“Digital transformation is bringing in new sets of challenges and opportunities for Indian infrastructure leaders,” said Naveen Mishra, research director at Gartner.
Business and IT leaders are focused on building an agile infrastructure that can address the needs of the changing workforce demographics. Cloud computing is expected to become pervasive as an infrastructure layer, given its elasticity, and it creates a need for IT leaders to plan for managing various cloud options.
Enterprise networking is the biggest segment within the Indian IT infrastructure market with revenue expected to reach $1.1 billion in 2017.
Enterprises are also evaluating software defined networking and SD-WAN while they build their next generation network infrastructure, to enable a seamless digital experience for customers, employees and partners.
With a revenue projection of $352 million in 2017, storage investment will witness a small increase driven by technology alternatives such as SDS, and flash based storage coupled with continued focus on SAN based storage.
