For offshore service providers, analyst house Gartner has provided a warning shot: ensure you’ve got a strategy to the cloud mapped out, otherwise your long term future will be at risk.<\/p>\n
With public cloud services gradually gaining acceptance in the marketplace – the analyst house predicts the public cloud market will hit $180bn by 2015 – this represents something of an upswing.<\/p>\n
This is all powered by Gartner’s influential ‘nexus of forces’ template, with cloud, mobile, social and information expected to drive business and IT for years to come.<\/p>\n
Yet whilst Gartner advocates adopting cloud to keep up in the services industry, it’s not ‘make or break’.<\/p>\n
“Cloud-based services will not replace offshore services, but will complement them,” Ian Marriott, Gartner research VP said.<\/p>\n
“There will always be a need for ‘pure-play’ providers that operate a labour-intensive delivery approach. But for broad-based offshore providers that operate in multiple geographies …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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