Optimization Services and the IT Infrastructure Life Cycle

Optimization Services and the IT Infrastructure Life Cycle

This IDC Market Perspective examines the developments and enhancements of optimization services and provides guidance on how players in this space, technology manufacturers, systems integrators, telecommunications providers, and public cloud/colocation providers, should be going to market with these important offerings for competitive differentiation and market share gain. Optimization services has been a critical component of network and infrastructure life cycle for many decades. Optimization services is designed to help customers tightly align and realign infrastructure investments to business, technology, and operational priorities as it evolves, thus ensuring customers are extracting maximum value and productivity from those investments as business requirements change over time. "Companies are looking to get the most value out of their IT investments," says Leslie Rosenberg, research VP, Network Life-Cycle Services and Infrastructure Services at IDC, "and to help with that value, optimization services play a critical role."

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