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The paper provides the analysis of remote monitoring information systems (RMS) design and development  concepts  evolution  during  the  last  decades  along  with  evolution  of  Earth  remote  sensing  (ERS) systems and technologies. The paper depicts the main stages of this evolution primarily determined by necessity of effective management of very large data volumes generated by modern ERS systems. The analysis  conducted  reveals  the  step-by-step  transition  from  creation  of  dedicated  hardware  and  software satellite data management infrastructure for a given RMS to maximum use of existing multi-purpose ERS data collection, archiving, processing and dissemination centres features and infrastructure in RMS design. It leads to significant reduction of problem-oriented RMS both development time and development and maintenance cost. The paper provides examples of RMS’s designed according to this concept  using  the  resources  provided  by  the  IKI-Monitoring  Common  Use  Centre.  The  article  also  discusses  remote  monitoring  information  systems  design  and  support  concepts  evolution  trends  and  highlights  the  reasonability  of  developing  a  dedicated  information  environment  for  efficient  development  of  RMS’s.  Such  an  environment  could  provide  various  resources  for  RMS  developers  including  convenient and standard data access services, data analysis and processing services, computational and hosting resources and RMS development and distributed control tools.