Macquarie Hosting announces a 30% increase in IT Infrastructure Outsourcing during 2008

Macquarie Hosting announced today that in 2008 there was an increase greater than 30% of Australian Businesses looking to outsource some aspects of their IT infrastructure aiming to reduce ongoing costs. http://www.macquarietelecom.com/hosting/it_outsourcing.htm End Quote

(1888PressRelease) January 27, 2009 - A November 2008 Key Report by Leading Research Company Frost and Sullivan indicates that Australian Businesses will continue to cut costs during the upcoming economic downturn. The report suggests that there are some key opportunities for businesses to take advantage of technological alternatives to the traditional modes of IT management and communications.

To date ensuring the management of mission critical applications, IT security and reliability are fundamental requirements of many Australian Businesses. The critical role IT plays prompted many organisations to invest in purchasing and managing their own IT infrastructure hardware in-house. However, the benefits of managing servers, such as long term stability, security and management are not as attractive in an uncertain economic climate.

Negatives to in-house infrastructure management not only include the significant capital expenditure investment, but also hardware depreciation, keeping up with technological advancement, access to skilled staff and conforming to standards such as PCI compliance. http://www.macquarietelecom.com/hosting/pci_compliance/pci_compliance_overview.htm

Macquarie Hosting General Manager of Sales, Stuart Mills believes that “despite the increased figures for outsourcing, many companies still fail to understand the true costs of managing their own IT infrastructure”.

Macquarie Hosting client, Richard Swift, General Manager, Yieldbroker sees IT infrastructure outsourcing as an opportunity for the business to ensure security and reduce ongoing maintenance costs.

“We saw our traditional approach to infrastructure was equivalent to constructing and demolishing office buildings each time we increased or decreased customer numbers or headcount” Swift said “the coupling was too tight.”

“Not only were we spending valuable time assessing and deploying new servers and infrastructure, but with every expansion we were losing confidence in the original security and integrity of our initial infrastructure design.

IT Outsourcing is also being driven by the need for IT managers to deliver a Green IT strategy. “In a recent survey of top Australian companies Macquarie Hosting carried out in conjunction with Fairfax Business Research we found that 73% of companies had not presented a business case that incorporated any Green IT factors, But 53% plan to do so in the next year” said Denis Rowe, Marketing Manager Macquarie Hosting.

Macquarie Hosting have been assisting Australian organisations deploy new infrastructure in a controlled and cost effective and risk adverse fashion, by delivering business hosting solutions through its ISO27001 accredited data centre. http://www.macquarietelecom.com/hosting/data_centre/data_centre.htm

Macquarie Hosting predicts the increase for IT infrastructure outsourcing will continue throughout 2009/2010. http://www.macquarietelecom.com/hosting/it_outsourcing.htm

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