Infrastructure Report Released by Tier 1

Research and analysis firm Tier 1 Research announced on Thursday the release of a new report illustrating the continued rapid growth through 2008 of the content Internet infrastructure.

The managed hosting sector is still the largest sector in Internet infrastructure experiencing over 30 percent growth in the last 12 months and estimated to grow another 24 percent in 2008 according to the report titled “Internet Infrastructure: Market Overview 2008″.

Tier 1 says multiple factors are responsible for the increased growth including increased managed hosting take-up by small to medium-sized businesses and mid-tier enterprises, as well as hosting for software as a service provision.

Progressing into 2009 and 2010, a range of innovative utility storage and hosting services will maintain continued growth, says the research firm.

Daniel Golding, senior analyst at T1R and author of the report stated “While the managed hosting sector sees tremendous growth, a massive transformation in how shared hosting services are successfully marketed and sold is well under way. Disk space and bandwidth is no longer a selling point and customers are now looking for the functionality that enables them to do things like blog, share photos, publish profile pages on a social network or sell things online. As a result, shared hosting has quickly commoditized and become a common denominator of sorts. In other words, shared hosting is no longer just about selling Web space for static websites. Rather, it is more about the many different things that can be done in a hosted environment.”

A report released in the first half of 2007 highlighting mergers and acquisitions activity in the Internet infrastructure and mass-market was released by Tier1

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