Gartner Updates Forecast for Global IT Spending in 2013
April 9, 2013
What happened to the effects of the sequestration? Apparently the tech sector will be just fine. Gartner has upped its forecast for global IT spending this year by $100 billion over October’s prediction, we learn from “Global IT Spending—Biggest Winners and Losers” at the Silicon Valley Business Journal. We notice though, that they predict no big paydays for search vendors in this list. Reporter Preeti Upadhyaya tells us:
“The top category of spending is on devices —smartphones, tablets and printers —and is expected to reach $718 billion this year, up 8 percent from last year. The winners in this category are obvious. Samsung and Apple are the runaway leaders in the smartphone and tablet categories, while Android tablets are making headway in the business market. Other winners will probably come from those managing the BYOD market, like Good Technology, for example.
“Enterprise software was the second largest category, with Gartner expecting spending to jump over 6 percent in 2013 to $297 billion. The winners here? Pretty much any startup in Silicon Valley right now. PricewaterhouseCoopers MoneyTree report shows that software dominated VC dollars in Q4 2012, bringing in nearly a billion dollars just from Silicon Valley.”
The report expects IT services and data center systems to grow, too, but modestly. Telecoms should also grow more slowly because money is shifting toward mobile data from voice. On the other hand, companies that stake their hopes on proprietary products, like Oracle and Microsoft, seem poised to lose ground. Those companies have been late to the cloud and mobile scene. I suspect, however, that each of these behemoths have the resources to make up that ground in the years to come.
Cynthia Murrell, April 09, 2013
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