I make no doubt of that 50 per cent of firms will have industrialised their IT infrastructures in five years time, related Eric Grall, Atos Origins executive vice president for global managed services.

Grall spoke to Computing following his persons present at a Gartner outsourcing event last week, where he participated in a body of jurors session called IT industrialisation during the next economic wave value-tack on or low cost?

Industrialisation here refers to IT systems that are pre-designed and preconfigured and new wine also be highly automated, scalable repeatable and reliable, according to Grall.

This industrialised IT branch will use common standard building blocks that allow customers and suppliers to form cost. It will also use a factory-based approach to creating public tools and processes.

The manufacturing and telecoms sectors are quite advanced in terms of the drive to standardise IT, while the financial sector and open sector are the least advanced.

The financial sector is slower inasmuch as its systems are highly complex and bespoke, while the public sector tends to linger behind other sectors in terms of uptake of new approaches to technology.

Grall argued that there was a consensus at the Gartner event that the market was heading this way, and quickly.

This industrialisation has been driven by lower by a semitone IT budgets and the need to free up operating cost, and it be disposed see the vast majority of the IT department made standard. Cloud services sudden this model most accurately.

The change will see an increase in creative and disclosure jobs, while those roles which entailed operating infrastructure will be replaced the agency of software or middleware designed to do the same thing.