The content Internet infrastructure market will continue to grow rapidly through 2008, according to Tier 1 Research, a division of The 451 Group. T1R analysts estimate that the total for 2007 Internet infrastructure revenue will reach $17,990.75m, which represents 26 percent growth over the 2006 total of $14,216.39m. Based on current trends in consumer behavior, the analysts expect the market for Internet infrastructure to grow another 24 percent in 2008.

The managed hosting sector remains the largest sector within Internet infrastructure and has experienced tremendous growth in the last 12 months -- in excess of 30% -- and will continue to show similar growth rates moving forward. Several trends account for that strong growth, including increased managed hosting adoption by SMBs and mid-tier enterprises and hosting for software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers. Moving forward into 2009 and 2010, an array of new utility storage and hosting services will continue to fuel strong growth.

"While the managed hosting sector sees tremendous growth, a massive transformation in how shared hosting services are successfully marketed and sold is well under way," said Daniel Golding, senior analyst at T1R and author of the report. "Disk space and bandwidth is no longer a selling point, and customers are now looking for the functionality that enables them to do things like blog, share photos, publish profile pages on a social network or sell things online. As a result, shared hosting has quickly commoditized and become a common denominator of sorts. In other words, shared hosting is no longer just about selling Web space for static websites; rather, it is more about the many different things that can be done in a hosted environment."

About this study

The Tier 1 Research report, 'Internet Infrastructure: Market Overview 2008,' provides an idea of the overall size, scope and growth of the sectors within the Internet infrastructure market. It spotlights various prominent firms in each segment and gives the market outlook for each. It also includes an overview of the Internet infrastructure taxonomy, including the breakdown among various types of Internet infrastructure services.

The report covers more than 40 key public and private companies in the Internet infrastructure sector, including 1&1, Akamai, AT&T, BitGravity, CDNetworks, CI Host, ChinaCache, Endurance International, GoDaddy.com, GS Neotech, Hostway, Intergenia, Internap, Layered Tech, Level3, Limelight Networks, Melbourne IT, Mirror Image, NaviSite, Network Solutions, NTT America, OpSource, Peak 10, Peer1, The Planet, Rackspace, Register.com, Savvis, ServerCentral, ServePath, SoftLayer, SunGard, Terremark, United Internet, ViaWest, Verio (NTT), Verizon, WebSite Pros and Yahoo.

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