Gartner’s most recent Magic Quadrant for the public cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) sector clearly shows that IT service providers are moving into a space currently owned by pure-play cloud and data center service providers. This trend is sure to ramp up this coming year.

Information Services Group (ISG) III 0.00% , a leading technology insights, market intelligence and advisory services company, today released research from two separate sources showing the continued growth of cloud computing in outsourcing industry activity.

Internet security firm Symantec reported that 79 percent of global organizations’ virtualization, mobile and cloud computing utilization are increasing complexity in data centers, according to the results of its 2012 State of the Data Center Survey.

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