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The Gartner Worldwide IT Spending Forecast is the leading indicator of major technology trends across the hardware, software, IT services and telecom markets.
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Gartner's U.S. dollar growth forecast for overall global IT spending in 2012 has been revised down from 4.6% last quarter to 3.7% now.
Faltering global economic growth, the Eurozone Crisis and the impact of Thailand's floods on HDD production have all taken their toll on the outlook for IT spending.
IT Spending, Worldwide, 4Q11 Update
Gartner's U.S. dollar growth forecast for overall global IT spending in 2012 has been revised down from 4.6% last quarter to 3.7%
30 January 2012
Faltering global economic growth, the eurozone crisis and the impact of Thailand's floods on hard-disk drive production have taken their toll on the outlook for IT spending in 2012.
12 January 2012
This vertical industry forecast provides total enterprise IT spending, including internal spending and multiple lines of detail surrounding spending on hardware, software, IT services and telecommunications for vertical industries and 43 countries within seven geographies.
Gartner's 5-year market forecasts draw upon primary surveys, inquiry analysis and secondary sources to help you fully understand strategic growth opportunities. You get a comprehensive understanding of supply and demand by technology segment, geography, and vertical market.
30 December 2011
This file provides five years of forecast and two years of historical data for the worldwide IT market. Data is shown by region for key segments of the IT industry.
21 December 2011
In the wake of the tragic Thai floods, we dramatically reduced our 4Q11 shipment estimates, but we still believe the fundamentals for storage demand and hard-disk drive shipment growth remain sound, with an 8.3% likely compound annual growth rate from 2011 through 2015.
2 December 2011
A three-year history and five-year forecast of annual PC unit shipments and end-user spending by region, by country, by professional versus home PCs, and by desk-based versus mobile PCs; all by U.S. dollar price band.
23 December 2011
We now forecast that the worldwide PC market will grow by 0.6% in 2011 and 4.5% in 2012, compared with our previous predictions of 3.8% and 10.9% respectively. Our revised forecast for sales of media tablets in 2011 is 58 million units, down from our prior forecast of 63 million.
Gartner's U.S. dollar growth forecast for global IT spending in 2012 has been revised downward from 4.6% in the previous quarter to 3.7%. Faltering global economic growth, the eurozone crisis and the impact of Thailand's floods on hard-disc drive production have taken their toll on IT spending.
During the past quarter, a devastating flood left one-third of Thailand under water. Although the waters are receding, the magnitude of the disaster is only just beginning to strike home.
Beyond the human tragedy, there are serious implications for businesses worldwide, particularly with computer and storage purchases. Thailand has been a major hub for hard-drive manufacturing, both for finished goods and components.
Gartner's current estimate is that the supply of hard drives will be reduced by as much as 25% (and possibly more) during the next six to nine months. Given the lead times involved in rebuilding the destroyed manufacturing facilities, the effects of this will continue to ripple throughout 2012, and possibly into 2013.
Large PC OEMs are best-positioned to cushion the effects of the shortages and will see fewer problems than others in the industry. These companies already had contracts in place and quickly responded to the potential disruptions, locking in a portion of the diminished supply in new multiple-quarter contracts.
However, no company will be immune to the effects on the HDD supply chain, and we have reduced our shipment forecast for PCs, which has impacted the short-term outlook for the hardware sector.

Gartner has revised its overall global IT spending growth forecast for 2011. In U.S. dollar terms, the forecast has been revised up from 7.1% to 7.6% for 2011.
However, stripping out the effect of exchange rates, the underlying forecast has been revised down slightly, from 3.6% to 2.9%.
IT Spending, Worldwide, 3Q11 Update
Gartner has revised its overall global IT spending growth forecast for 2011. In U.S. dollar terms, the forecast has been revised up from 7.1% to 7.6% for 2011; however, stripping out the effect of exchange rates, the underlying forecast has been revised down slightly, from 3.6% to 2.9%.
Gartner's 5-year market forecasts draw upon primary surveys, inquiry analysis and secondary sources to help you fully understand strategic growth opportunities. You get a comprehensive understanding of supply and demand by technology segment, geography, and vertical market.
23 September 2011
This file provides five years of forecast and two years of historical data for the worldwide IT market. Data is shown by region for key segments of the IT industry.
7 October 2011
This research provides forecasts of the number of data centers by size category and region from 2010 through 2015. Estimates divide data center infrastructure into servers, storage and networking and measure the racks of equipment, systems in use and end-user spending, vendor revenue and shipments.
11 October 2011
Global enterprise IT spending across all industry market segments will grow at a 5.9% annual growth rate in 2011 to $2.594 trillion. Currency fluctuations drove the compound annual growth rate for the period from 2010 through 2015 slightly lower, to 4.2%.
Gartner has revised its overall global IT spending growth forecast for 2011. In U.S. dollar terms, the forecast has been revised up from 7.1% to 7.6% for 2011.
Currency fluctuations versus the U.S. dollar again have had a significant impact on the top-line current U.S. dollar growth forecast for this year and next; in constant-dollar terms, the spending growth forecast across all high-level technology sectors has been trimmed so that, at the level of overall IT, underlying growth has been revised down from 3.6% to 2.9% for 2011 and from 5.0% to 3.9% for 2012.
Worldwide spend on Datacenter hardware will rise from $87 billion in 2010 to $126 billion in 2015.
Worldwide IT spending is forecast to total $3.67 trillion in 2011, a 7.1 percent increase from $3.43 trillion in 2010, according to the latest outlook.
Gartner has slightly raised its outlook for 2011 from its previous forecast of 5.6 percent growth, largely due to US dollar exchange rate fluctuations.
IT Spending, Worldwide, 2008-2015, 2Q11 Update
Overall IT forecast growth in U.S. dollar terms has been revised up from 5.6% to 7.1% for 2011, and from 4.5% to 5.0% for 2012. Through 2015, we forecast that overall IT spending will grow at an annual average rate of 5.3% as the global economy continues to recover.
Gartner's 5-year market forecasts draw upon primary surveys, inquiry analysis and secondary sources to help you fully understand strategic growth opportunities. You get a comprehensive understanding of supply and demand by technology segment, geography, and vertical market.
23 June 2011
Gartner's forecast for dollar-valued global IT spending growth has been revised up from 5.6% to 7.1% for 2011 and from 4.5% to 5.0% for 2012. Currency fluctuations make a significant contribution to the increase in top-line current U.S. dollar growth for 2011.
29 June 2011
The worldwide market for Public Cloud Services of all types was $74.3bn in 2010 up from $58.6bn in 2009, a growth rate of 26.7%.
1 August 2011
Forecast growth in U.S. dollar-valued overall IT spending has been revised up to 7.1% from 5.6% for 2011 and to 5.0% from 4.5% for 2012.
15 July 2011
This vertical industries forecast provides total enterprise IT spending, including internal spending and multiple lines of detail surrounding spending on hardware, software, IT services, and telecommunications for vertical industries and 43 countries within seven geographies.
Gartner's forecast for dollar-valued global IT spending growth has been revised up to 7.1% from 5.6% for 2011 and to 5.0% from 4.5% for 2012. However, the underlying growth forecast, which strips out the effect of exchange rate fluctuations, has been reduced slightly for 2011 across all four high-level technology sectors of computing hardware, enterprise software, IT services and telecommunications, reflecting the impact of a more challenging short-term global economic growth outlook. Through 2015, we forecast that overall IT spending will grow at an annual average rate of 5.3% as the global economy continues to recover.
The migration to public cloud services is one of the hottest topics in IT, and forecast spending in this area, at an annual average growth rate of 19%, is growing almost four times faster than spending on overall IT. However, to put this growth in context, by 2015, the level of spending on public cloud services will be less than 5% of the total spent on IT overall.
Worldwide IT spending is forecast to total $3.6 trillion in 2011, a 5.6 percent increase from $3.4 trillion in 2010, according to the latest outlook. Gartner has slightly raised its outlook for 2011 from its previous forecast of 5.1 percent growth.
Gartner has added media tablets, such as the iPad, to its computing hardware spending estimates beginning this quarter. That has increased Gartner's computing hardware growth outlook from 7.5 percent to 9.5 percent for 2011.
IT Spending, Worldwide, 2008 to 2014, 1Q11 Update
Gartner's forecast for overall global IT spending in dollar terms is largely unchanged despite political unrest in the Middle East, while the impact on IT markets of the recent natural disasters in Japan is yet to be fully understood. This quarter, we added media tablets to our spending estimates.
Gartner's 5-year market forecasts draw upon primary surveys, inquiry analysis and secondary sources to help you fully understand strategic growth opportunities. You get a comprehensive understanding of supply and demand by technology segment, geography, and vertical market.
29 March 2011
Dollar-valued global IT spending is estimated to increase 5.6% in 2011 and grow 4.5% in 2012. Global IT spending will average 4.8% annual growth from 2010 through 2015.
15 April 2011
Forecast growth in U.S. dollar-valued overall IT spending has been revised up to 5.6% from 5.1% for 2011 and to 4.5% from 4.4% for 2012. The addition of media tablets to our forecast has boosted our IT spending estimates.
15 April 2011
Global enterprise IT spending across all industry market segments will grow at a 4.3% annual growth rate in 2011 to $2.534 trillion. Currency fluctuations drove the 2009-2015 compound annual growth rate slightly lower, to 3.9%.
Gartner's forecast for dollar-valued global IT spending growth has been revised up to 5.6% from 5.1% for 2011 and to 4.5% from 4.4% for 2012. The addition of media tablets re-enforced by an expected additional decline in the value of the dollar accounts for the increase in top line growth.
This quarter we have added Media Tablets to our Computing Hardware spending forecast, adding an additional $10B in 2010 that eventually increases to $80B by 2015. This more than offsets the reduction in the PC forecast, which reflected our assumptions about the impact of media tablets on PC spending.
Worldwide IT spending is forecast to total $3.6 trillion in 2011, a 5.1 percent increase from 2010, according to the latest outlook. In 2010, worldwide IT spending totaled $3.4 trillion, up 5.4 percent from 2009 levels.
IT Spending, Worldwide, 2008 to 2014, 4Q10 Update
Gartner's global IT spending growth forecast has been revised up, from 3.2% to 5.4% for 2010 and from 3.5% to 5.1% in 2011. Currency effects and a slightly more optimistic outlook in some key segments have combined to raise the outlook for U.S. dollar-denominated growth.
Gartner's 5-year market forecasts draw upon primary surveys, inquiry analysis and secondary sources to help you fully understand strategic growth opportunities. You get a comprehensive understanding of supply and demand by technology segment, geography, and vertical market.
4 January 2011
Dollar-valued global IT spending is estimated to increase 5.4% in 2010 and grow 5.1% in 2011. Global IT spending will average 4.8% annual growth from 2009 through 2014.
26 January 2011
Gartner's global IT spending forecast has been revised upward, from 3.2% to 5.4% growth for 2010 and from 3.5% to 5.1% growth for 2011, with dollar depreciation accounting for much of the change. Longer term, the forecast in U.S. dollars for 2012, 2013 and 2014 is virtually unchanged at about 4.5%.
18 January 2011
Global enterprise IT spending across all industry market segments will grow at a 4.3% annual growth rate in 2011 to $2.516 trillion. Currency fluctuations drove the 2009-2014 compound annual growth rate slightly higher, to 3.9%.
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