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IT spending expected to rebound this year

Beancounters at Gartner have added up some numbers and reached the conclusion that  IT spending is set to rebound in 2021.

Global IT spending will reach $4 trillion in 2021, Gartner claims, an increase of 8.4 percent on the previous year.

Spending on devices is set to rocket by 14 pe cent this year to $755.8 billion. Enterprise software is the second-fastest-growing segment this year with spending set to grow by 10.8 percent to $571.7 billion. IT services spending will grow nine percent to 1.2 trillion, claims Gartner, data centre systems by 7.7 percent to 247.5 billion and communications services by 4.6 percent to $1.45 trillion

Gartner research VP John-David Lovelock said IT spending will move away from the “knee-jerk” spending seen last year.

Social software and collaboration market will see double digit growth

Analysts at Gartner have added up some numbers, thrown some runes, and reached the conclusion that the social software and collaboration market will rack up $4.5 billion in revenues in 2021 with double-digit growth expected through 2022.

The analyst firm claims remote home working and social software integrations within other enterprise applications has driven significant growth, forecasting a rise of 17.1 per cent from 2020.

Gartner research vice president, Craig Roth said that use cases for the social and collaboration market, such as coordinating a distributed workforce and providing a ‘virtual water cooler,’ got a sudden jolt from the pandemic and such tools went from a ‘nice to have’ to a ‘must have’ within a matter of weeks.

The research firm added that additional investment in technologies will continue even as office work returns, in order to “facilitate, capture and organise open conversations and information sharing”.

Remote working is here to stay says Gartner

Gartner has published survey findings of 127 company leaders representing HR, legal and compliance, and finance and real estate, revealing that 82 percent of respondents intend to allow employees to work remotely for some of the time. As companies will need to manage a more complex, hybrid workforce.

Nearly half (47 percent) said they intend to allow employees to work remotely full time going forward. For some organizations, flex time will be the new norm as 43 percent of survey respondents reported they will grant employees flex days, while 42 percent will provide flex hours.

Container management to grow

Analysts at Gartner  have been shuffling their Tarot cards and reached the conclusion that  worldwide container management revenue will grow strongly.

At the moment things are quite small at just $465.8 million in 2020, but Big G thinks that the industry will reach $944 million by  2024.

LogicMonitor director of engineering  Göran Sandahl said that the  predicted growth is understandable, as containers enable greater velocity and efficiency when developing, deploying and scaling applications.

mMTC could, just could be the next big thing

Massive Machine Type Communication (mMTC) designed to provide a cheap and robust simultaneous connection to billions of devices and modules over wired or wireless networks without overloading the network, could be the next big thing according to global tech market advisory firm, ABI Research.

Writing in their 5G mMTC Overview, Devices and Use Cases application analysis report, the researchers think that devices like monitoring sensors, execution control units, connected home appliances, smart lights, basic wearables, smart clothing, headsets, drones, Augmented Reality (AR)/Virtual Reality (VR), and sensors will soon take advantage of mMTC using the 5G network to collect data which will automate systems and improve efficiency, taking advantage of the increased speed.5G  mMTC module shipments and revenue began its first year in 2020 in 2020 and will ramp up quickly to reach more than 1 billion units and module revenues over US$3 billion in 2024.

Cloud security spending increasing

Divination experts at analyst outfit Gartner have been observing the flight of birds, taken out the kidneys of live animals as auspices and are predicting that cloud security spending will increase by a third this year.

Information security spending is set to grow 2.4 percent to hit $123.8 billion in 2020, down from the 8.7 percent growth Gartner projected in its December 2019 forecast update.

Firewalls and network security devices  are expected to endure spending declines this year, the mass shift to remote working and cloud will drive gains elsewhere.

Worldwide chip sales decimated by coronavirus

Coronavirus has killed off any hope of a 12.5 percent growth forecast, according to Gartner bean counters.

Now after shuffling their tarot cards, the augers at Big G think that worldwide semiconductor revenue is forecast to decline by 0.9 percent during 2020 due to the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Expected revenue has been slashed from the previous quarter’s forecast by $55 billion, falling from $470 billion to $415 billion, according to Gartner. This represents an overall decline in year-on-year revenues against 2019 figures.

EMEA IT spending expected to increase.

Gartner augurs have been “taking the auspices” and had a vision that EMEA IT spending will rise by 3.4 percent in 2020.

John Lovelock, research vice president at Gartner, said 2020 will be a recovery year for IT spending in EMEA after three consecutive years of decline.

“This year declines in the Euro and the British Pound against the US Dollar, at least partially due to Brexit concerns, pushed some IT spending down and caused a rise in local prices for technology hardware. However, 2020 will be a rebound year as Brexit is expected to be resolved and the pressure on currency rates relieved”, he added.

Smartphone sales drop down the loo

Beancounters working for analyst outfit Gartner say that global shipments are pretty pants at the moment but it is hoping that 5G could turn things around

Global shipments of smartphones are set to decline by 3.2 percent in 2019, the latest report from Gartner predicts, leaving the category facing its worst decline to date.

IaaS market grows

added up some numbers and divided by ther collective shoe size and decided that the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market grew by 31.3 per cent in 2018.

This figure has risen from $24.7 billion in 2017 to $32.4 billion.

Amazon continued to lead from the front last year, retaining its status as the number one vendor in the IaaS market, followed by Microsoft, Alibaba, Google and IBM.

Global semiconductor sales to decline this year

Beancounters at analyst firm Gartner have added up some numbers and divided them by their collective shoe sizes and predicted a 9.6 percent  decline in worldwide semiconductor revenue in 2019.

Big G said that the market will fall to $429 billion from the $475 billion recorded last year.

The drop means OEMs and hardware suppliers in the channel will see demand-driven oversupply in the DRAM market that will slash pricing down by 42.1 percent. All this will last until the second quarter of 2020.

Gartner roasts big cloud

Analyst outfit Gartner has waded into the Big Public Cloud providers saying that they have reliability issues and poor services.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud remain in the Leaders segment, while Oracle, Alibaba and IBM retain their positions in the Niche Players quadrant. However, AWS, Microsoft and Google were blasted by Big G.

Software demonstrations might be pointless

It might be that providing software demos to customers are a waste of time.

Research by Peter Cohan, author of Great Demo! suggests that nearly half of all software demonstrations given during the sales process are “wasted” because they are premature.

“Software vendors often attempt to use an ‘overview’ demo to start a dialog with a customer – and may try to use these to do Discovery along the way. If you ask presales managers how many of these ‘overview’ demos actually lead to a qualified prospect, the answer can be painfully low”, said Cohan.

Gartner fails to spot four MSSP giants

Gartner’s latest managed security services provider (MSSP) report is missing the names of four big IT giants who made it last year but have disappeared.

DXC Technology, BT, Orange Business Services and HCL Technologies appeared to have softly and suddenly vanished away and will not be met with again.

Tiny growth for IT spending forecast

Analyst outfit Gartner is now predicting slow growth for IT spending this year.

The firm has adjusted its 2019 global IT spending growth forecast to 1.1 percent, down from the 3.2 percent the research firm predicted back in January.

The reason appears to be economic factors such as a stronger US dollar; analysts now estimate that total IT spending will amount to £3.79 trillion – roughly the same as in 2018.

Gartner research vice president. John-David Lovelock said currency headwinds fuelled by the strengthening US dollar have caused Big G to revise its 2019 IT spending forecast down from the previous quarter

“Through the remainder of 2019, the U.S. dollar is expected to trend stronger, while enduring tremendous volatility due to uncertain economic and political environments and trade wars.”

Despite the slight overall growth, Garter said the data centre systems segment would suffer the most significant decline of 2.8 percent, as expected component cost adjustments continue to drive down average selling prices (ASPs) in the server market.

The ongoing enterprise shift from traditional, non-cloud to cloud-based setups, however, will continue to fuel enterprise software growth. In 2019, analysts predict the market to hit $427 billion, marking a 7.1 percent increase over 2018’s total of $399 billion.

While application software has so far seen the most extensive cloud shift, Gartner said it expects increased growth for the infrastructure software segment in the near-term – particularly in integration platform as a service (iPaaS) and application platform as a service (aPaaS).

“Disruptive emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), will reshape business models as well as the economics of public and private sector enterprises. AI is having a major effect on IT spending, although its role is often misunderstood,” Lovelock commented.

“AI is not a product; it is a set of techniques or a computer engineering discipline. As such, AI is embedded in many existing products and services, as well as being central to new development efforts in every industry. Gartner’s AI business value forecast predicts that organisations will receive $1.9 trillion worth of benefit from the use of AI this year alone.”