Companies are aggressively deploying managed services not only to consolidate their ICT environment into datacenters but also to use computing resources, security services, and monitoring services so that they can focus on their core businesses and respond to changing business situations quickly and with flexibility. After the Great East Japan Earthquake, the demand for datacenter or cloud services to address disaster recovery and emergency power supply concerns has increased. IDC's Japan Carrier Managed Services provides an in-depth analysis of end-user trends, service providers strategies, and forecasts for major managed services.

• Japan carrier solutions and managed services
• Managed services end-user survey
• Internet datacenter (collocation, hosting, IaaS)
• Service trends of Internet datacenter providers in overseas market
• Security services

• Japan Carrier Solutions and Managed Services Forecast and Analysis
• Japan Managed Services Enterprise User Survey
• Japan Internet Datacenter Services Forecast and Review
• Japan Usage Trends of Dot-Com Companies for Internet Datacenter Services
• Japan Security Services Forecast and Review
• Japan Cloud Services Business Trends of Overseas Internet Datacenter Services Providers

In addition to the insight provided in this service, IDC may conduct research on specific topics or emerging market segments via research offerings that require additional IDC funding and client investment.

1. What are the potential business opportunities for carrier managed services in Japan?
2. What are drivers and inhibitors for end users to deploy managed services?
3. What are the needs of companies that will drive the Internet datacenter services market?
4. How should carriers differentiate their security services in cloud-based environments?
5. What are the lessons from services and business strategies of overseas datacenter services providers to enhance competitive advantage in globalizing the market?

This service reviews strategies, market positioning, and future direction of several providers in the Japan carrier managed services market, including:

Bit-isle, GMO, IIJ, KDDI, K-Opticom, KVH, Nifty, NTT Communications, NTT East, NTT West, SAKURA Internet, and SoftBank Telecom.

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