COVID-19 impact, MSPs, managed third party cloud, data centre, hyperscale APAC
The response of governments around the world to the COVID-19 virus outbreak has obviously had a big impact on the infrastructure services sector. In the previous week we discussed the outlook for the data centre sector in light of these developments and this past week we assess the potential impact on MSPs and infrastructure service providers.
One of the most immediate effects of people working and spending more time at home is the spike in Internet usage – across content and remote conferencing and collaboration tools. There have been outages, service degradations and surges in demand, while capacity is being expanded. But things are changing rapidly and as the global economy comes to a standstill, supply chains are going to be negatively impacted sooner than later. It is looking like the impact on cloud and data centres could well be more immediate.
The managed third party cloud market continues to see activity. 2nd Watch rolled out a managed DevOps service, Aptum revealed some customer wins on Azure and Mission rolled out more partnerships to help it with specific and targeted capabilities.
The data centre market continues to push forward and we had a chance to speak with Pulsant and Virtus in the UK.
It was a somewhat quieter week on the hyperscale side of things, but we came across some interesting data points in APAC around Oracle Cloud adoption and enterprise migrations.
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