IBM is the leading supplier in the global infrastructure outsourcing segment, said Forrester Research in a new research note.
IBM scored the highest or among the highest among 13 suppliers across three high-level evaluation criteria: Strategy, Current Offering and Market Presence.
Forrester recognized IBM’s vision for the future of infrastructure services, noting that cloud services has become a major element of IBM’s infrastructure management strategy, said the report called The Forrester Wave: Global Infrastructure Outsourcing, Q1 2015.
According to Forrester, the size of the global infrastructure outsourcing market is $187.5 billion, with North America comprising nearly 58 percent of this total.
Infrastructure outsourcing services are critically important as enterprises prepare their infrastructure for the digital age. Outsourcing providers are emphasizing qualities that include predictability through analytics, self-healing with autonomic computing and automation, and self-service with adaptation to cloud models and use of service stores.
IBM views the current infrastructure management services market as the age of outcomes, IP, and automation. IBM is pursuing several initiatives, including automation with IBM Workload Automation and integration across systems of record and systems of engagement. Since its acquisition of SoftLayer Technologies in 2013, cloud services have become a major element of its infrastructure management strategy.
The report says IBM has a very strong vision for the future of infrastructure services and a very well-balanced global delivery model.
Recently, IBM announced IT infrastructure services deals with enterprise clients including WPP, ABN Amro, Lufthansa and WOOX Innovations.
