Gartner: 2013 IT spending will reach $ 3.8 trillion

March 29 message, according to Gartner's latest outlook report, the global IT spending in 2013 is expected to reach $ 3.8 trillion, compared with 2012 expenditures of $ 3.6 trillion, an increase of 4.1%. IT spending in the Asia Pacific region is expected to reach $ 740 billion in spending compared with the 6,840 billion dollars in 2012, an increase of 8.2%.
Richard Gordon, Gartner Executive Vice President, said: "Despite U.S. efforts to avoid a financial Flytouch 3 cliff, but the the subsequent automatic divestment plan and Cyprus debt burden brought test. Addition, the weak commercial and fragile consumer sentiment continued in most parts of the world spread, however, the impact is expected to be short-lived, may suspend discretionary IT spending, but strategic IT initiatives will be ongoing.
2013, equipment spending (including personal computers, tablet PCs, mobile phones and printers) is expected to reach 7,180 one hundred million U.S. dollars, compared with 2012 growth of 7.9% (see Table 1). PC spending was essentially flat, printers expenditures declined slightly, but the short-term spending growth of high-quality phone prompted Gartner raised its 6.3% growth forecast made before.
John Lovelock, research vice president at Gartner, said: "The growth rate of the global stability just as seemingly calm but hidden turbulent sea. Force the convergence of social, mobile, cloud and information are reshaping Gartner predicted in all categories of IT spending pattern. consumers and businesses will continue to purchase IT products and services portfolio, nothing will completely disappear, however, the rate of this combination is the drastic change, in the next 3-5 years, there will be clear winners and losers, as we have seen from the PC to the phone from the server to the storage cloud from licensed software to change or shift from fixed to mobile voice and data connections.
Data center system expenditures are projected to grow by 3.7% in 2013, 0.7% lower than the forecast made Gartner before. The decrease was primarily from the reduction of short-term external storage spending forecast and Europe, Middle East and Africa region troubled enterprise economy.
Global enterprise software spending is expected to reach $ 297 billion in 2013. An increase rk3066 of 6.4% from 2012. Previously made in the areas of growth and Gartner
forecasts consistent, but the forecast is to cover up the significant changes of the market, as expected strong growth in the database management system (DBMS), data integration tools, and supply chain management compensation IT operations management and operating system software, lower growth expectations.
Global telecommunications services market is still the largest IT spending market within the next few years, IT spending roughly flat, the strong growth of mobile data services spending to offset the decline in voice services spending