Enterprises in Brazil Look to Service Providers to Help Them Move to Hybrid Cloud Data Centers - Seite 2

Meanwhile, the report sees the Brazilian midmarket in the private and hybrid cloud data center sector growing faster than the large enterprise market. In past years, service providers had reported that new clients were companies that had in-house data enters and were willing to experiment with the cloud. But in 2019, some companies in the Brazilian midmarket began to switch between providers, indicating aggressive competition in the market.

The report recommends that midmarket companies concerned with costs should evaluate hybrid cloud services and their exit clauses. Clients should opt for short-term contracts and open architectures.

Meanwhile, the report sees the managed hosting market losing relevance in Brazil, as it gives way to public and hybrid cloud systems. However, many providers have focused on improving their managed services and data center facilities. Some providers have exited the managed hosting market, and the remaining competitors are focused on improving their value proposition.

An emerging trend has managed hosting providers using high-end colocation facilities instead of their own data centers to host their hardware and software, the report says. Many Brazilian clients are also interested in colocation services, and many colocation providers are building new facilities to keep up with growing demand.

The report also finds data center security providers expanding their capabilities. Providers are focused on zero-trust, micro-segmentation, SD-WAN and AI for threat identification and response. Leading providers are also offering next-generation firewalls that can integrate with other security tools. However, the report doesn’t see any vendors with high-end applications that can provide end-to-end data center security for their customers.

The 2020 ISG Provider Lens Next-Gen Private/Hybrid Cloud – Data Center Services & Solutions Report for Brazil evaluates the capabilities of 59 providers across six quadrants: Managed Services for Large Accounts, Managed Services for the Midmarket, Managed Hosting, Colocation Services, Data Center Security Products and Hyperconverged Systems.

The report names Compasso UOL, Equinix and IBM as leaders in three quadrants and CenturyLink, Cisco and TIVIT as leaders in two. Ascenty, Broadcom/Symantec, Capgemini, Check Point, CorpFlex, Dedalus Prime, Dell EMC, DXC Technology, Fortinet, HPE, Juniper Networks, Nextios, Palo Alto Networks, Scala Data Centers, TCS, Trend Micro, T-Systems, Unisys, VMware and Wipro are all named as leaders in one quadrant.