Market Trends of North America Managed Services Industry
IT and Telecom Sector Expected to Hold a Significant Market Share
- The IT and telecom sector is a significant market for managed services due to the high rate of various technological adoptions, increased rate of adoption of the BYOD policy (in order to make business operations much more comfortable and controllable), and increased need for high-end security due to rapidly increasing data volumes in organizations.
- The telecom industry has observed increased growth during the past few years as telecommunication companies are encountering constant pressure to deliver innovative services at lower costs to retain their customers in the competitive market. In order to address a complex and competitive environment, managed services have become a widespread demand for operators.
- Moreover, because of their compelling economic case, most telecom carriers are expected to replace their network hardware with software (SDN & NFV). Major factors driving the demand for SDN and NFV include improved time-to-market, reduction in CAPEX and OPEX, and opening up new revenue streams from a business standpoint. All these are expected to drive the growth of the market studied. Such initiatives are driving demand for managed network services.
- Many SD-WAN managed service providers in North America differentiate themselves with a broad range of security offerings. For instance, Cato Networks offers a cloud-native platform that includes NGFW, Secure Web Gateway, Advanced Threat Prevention, Cloud and Mobile Access Protection, and a Managed Threat Detection and Response service. Colt offers Layer 7 firewall or a Layer 3/4 stateful firewall with DDoS protection, and CenturyLink provides a suite of security services referred to as Adaptive Network Security.
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Canada Expected to be the Fastest-growing Market
- The market for managed services in Canada is growing mainly due to new product roll-outs, acquisitions, mergers, and partnerships, shaping the overall North American market. The accelerated growth of technology in Canada continues to reshape how businesses improve operational efficiencies, leverage massive amounts of data, collaborate internally, and interaction between businesses and customers.
- Starport is a Canada-based managed IT services provider that delivers top-class IT design, implementation, and continuous network monitoring to mid-sized organizations, throughout Canada. Most of its clients are concentrated in the Greater Toronto Area. It offers its services to clients from various industries, including investment banking, manufacturing, and commercial real estate.
- Besides, Canada is witnessing high growth in the application of multi-cloud environments and increased adoption of automation. In the region, cloud, mobile, and social technologies demand that businesses take a proactive approach toward IT security, thus, boosting the demand for the deployment of robust managed services that would deliver in all security management layers.
- Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) and related Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) markets represent a business opportunity for managed service providers. This is because emerging players are offering innovative cloud-based solutions that require a minimum investment and are easy to deploy. Customers are also leaning toward consumption-based, pay-as-you-go models.
- Rising cloud services in the country are expected to augment the demand for the managed MPLS market. For instance, the Government of Canada has a 'cloud-first' strategy, whereby cloud services are identified and evaluated as the principal delivery option while initiating information technology investments, initiatives, strategies, and projects. The cloud is also expected to allow the Government of Canada to harness the innovation of private sector providers to make its information technology more agile.
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