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IT Spending to Grow 2.7% in 2017, More News
Worldwide IT spending will total $3.5 trillion this year, up 2.7 percent increase from 2016, Gartner researchers predict. The growth rate is down slightly from earlier projections of 3 percent.
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The World (of IT Spending) Is Flat, Gartner Says
Business are funding investments in innovative technologies by cutting costs where they can rather than growing budgets, according to a new report from Gartner. They're turning to cost optimization efforts — for example Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) instead of software licenses, voice over LTE (VoLTE) instead of cellular and digital personal assistants
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Speed Read: Brace for Weak IT Spending
IT spending declined $216 billion year-over-year in 2015 — and is expected to remain weak through 2019. In 2016, Gartner predicts, IT spending will hit $3.5 trillion, only a 0.6 percent increase from 2015.
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Will Enterprise Software Vendors Raise Prices?
Enterprise software vendors will try to hold the line on prices this year because they're more interested in market share than profitability, according to a Gartner report released yesterday. In the report from the Stamford, Conn.-based IT research firm, analysts predict enterprise software spending will decline 1.
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Second Survey Finds Slipping Confidence in Tech Sales
For months, the question asked softly around Silicon Valley has been: Is this another tech bubble? With restaurants filled with well-paid tech workers and home prices soaring into the stratosphere, such doubts are usually shrugged off with a phrase that hasn't been heard much around the San Francisco Bay Area
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Social, Analytics and Smartphones Driving IT Spending Growth
While smartphones remain the top dogs in IT spending, the research firm IDC reports analytics, collaborative applications and data management will help drive stronger spending through the end of 2014. The firm forecasts worldwide IT growth of 4.1 percent in US dollars.
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Forrester Report: Mobile, Cloud + Smart Apps Top Buyers' Lists in 2013 + 2014
Global business and government spending on IT products and services in US billions. Worldwide tech spending will vary greatly depending on geography in 2013 and 2014, a Forrester report has found, and software sales of the mobile, cloud and smart app variety will lead the way, particularly in the US.
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Gartner Revises Annual IT Spending Upwards Buoyed By Mobile, Enterprise Software
In early January, Gartner predicted that IT spending would bounce back this year. Now, with the benefit of full figures for 2012 and a clearer idea of where the market is going, it is revising its spending predictions with spending on mobile devices the big winner.
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Gartner: Document Management in Top 10 Tech Priorities List
According to recent research from Gartner (news, site), document management will be one of the top 10 technology priorities for CIOs in 2010. Reminiscent of 2009 top 10 strategic technologies, virtualization and cloud computing challenges will also keep CIOs on their toes this year.
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Worldwide IT Spending on Its Way Up in 2010, But Not By Much
IDC (news, site ) has a new research report available on growth of worldwide IT spending and while it's improving, it's not by much. Are We Still in a Recession? That would be yes.
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Virtualization Precipitates Server Spending Drop (Obviously)
A new study from TechNavio and Infiniti Research demonstrates that server spending is experiencing a dramatic decline as the star of virtualization begins to rise.
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