According to research conducted by Node4, the number of small and medium-sized enterprises outsourcing their IT infrastructure has increased six-fold over the past year. Six per cent now pass on these responsibilities to ITOs, compared to just one per cent last year.

These statistics came from a study of 250 IT strategy decision makers working for SMEs. 60 per cent of those surveyed claimed that outsourcing these functions gave them peace of mind.

The report went on to claim that 70 per cent of these SMEs would fail without this critical IT infrastructure within just one day. Reliability was quoted as the most pressing IT concern, closely followed by the worry that the infrastructure of these businesses is too dependent on hardware that could potentially fail.

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