Offshore Management of IT Infrastructure Hot, Traditional Outsourcing Still Dominates Market, According to Everest Annual Report

Remote Infrastructure Management Outsourcing (RIMO) continues to be the darling model of the sluggish Infrastructure Outsourcing (IO) market, according to the Everest Research Institute’s IT Infrastructure Outsourcing (ITO) Annual Report. Despite the overall IO market’s slow growth, predicted to crawl at a four percent (CAGR) growth pace over the next five years, RIMO adoption is growing at approximately 60 percent annually and is predicted to reach US $8.6 billion by 2010. Although RIMO’s adoption rate is soaring, RIMO only comprises one percent of the overall IO market with the slow-growing traditional solutions making up 75 percent of all infrastructure outsourcing arrangements.