Increased outsourcing, include networking infrastructures, will likely form a key trend for 2009 as companies react to mounting downward financial pressure caused by the economic downturn.
This trend forms part of a recent report by Forrester Research which has revealed the true extent as to the toll the economic downturn is having on IT departments and their budgets in particular.
Forrester says that as a result of the downturn, 43% of firms have already increased their use of infrastructure outsourcing. A similar number said that they would move more work offshore. Infrastructure outsourcing expects to grow with convergent telecommunications and network management likely to be a hot area of growth as 20% of firms outsourcing this service in 2008.
