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Over the past few years, enterprises have grown comfortable turning over certain IT functions to an outsourcing partner. This trend has more recently extended to the outsourcing of IT infrastructure (servers and the systems required for servers to run efficiently), to data center colocation, managed hosting and managed services providers.

In fact, Gartner predicts that by 2012, 20 percent of businesses will own virtually no IT assets, a testament to the potential cost and performance gains that firms can realize by leveraging an outsourcing partner with expertise and capabilities lacked in-house.

Smart Business learned more from Pete Stevenson, CEO at Latisys, about how IT infrastructure outsourcing (ITO) differs from the outsourcing of IT services, the primary benefits of ITO and where ITO is headed given the challenging economic and business climate.