* Infonetics Research releases report on VPN and security services
Apparently, many businesses interested in VPNs are also interested in offloading the work involved in setting them up, monitoring and maintaining them.
This is fueled by the complexity of deploying VPNs, which pushes businesses without enough IT staffing to handle in-house VPNs to seek VPN services instead, according to a recently released Infonetics Research report entitled “VPN and Security Services.”
Businesses are also drawn to VPN services because they can be less expensive than alternative WAN technology and because they can boost productivity by giving workers access to network resources from more locations, the report says.
Worldwide, businesses will spend $29.8 billion on VPN services in 2009, the report projects, which is about 10 times as much as businesses will spend on VPN gear needed to set up their own VPNs, Infonetics says.
This speaks to the amount of work it takes for a business to set up a VPN, which translates into significant costs. While customers seem convinced that VPNs are an important means of networking, they are also apparently daunted by the investment of time and money it takes to run them in-house.
This may also help explain the continuing popularity of frame relay, which can be used as an alternative to site-to-site VPNs and which is well understood and accepted by businesses. They can continue using it without retraining staff.
The Infonetics report breaks down the services into the technology used, whether the VPN is used for internal networking or connecting to business partners and whether it is used for remote access or connecting corporate sites. It also breaks down the data by the size of the business and by global regions. For more information check out https://www.infonetics.com/resources/purple.shtml?ms05.vs.nr.shtml
