Worldwide devices spending (which includes
PCs, tablets, mobile phones and printers) is forecast to reach $718 billion in
2013, up 7.9 percent from 2012. Despite flat spending on PCs and
a modest decline in spending on printers, a short-term boost to spending on
premium mobile phones has driven an upward revision in the devices sector
growth for 2013 from Gartner's previous forecast of 6.3 percent.
The outlook for 2013 for data center systems spending is forecast to grow 3.7 percent in 2013, down 0.7 percent from Gartner's previous forecast. This reduction is largely due to cuts to the near-term forecast for spending on external storage and the enterprise in the economically troubled EMEA region.
Worldwide enterprise software spending is
forecast to total $297 billion in 2013, a 6.4 percent increase from 2012.
Although the growth for this segment remains unchanged from Gartner's previous
forecast, this belies significant changes at a market level, as stronger growth
expectations for database management systems (DBMS), data integration tools and
supply chain management compensate for lower growth expectations for IT
operations management and operating systems software.
While the outlook for IT services remains
relatively unchanged since last quarter, continued hesitation among buyers is
fostering hypercompetition and cost pressure in mature IT outsourcing (ITO)
segments and reallocation of budget away from new projects in consulting and
implementation.
The global telecom services market continues
to be the largest IT spending market and will remain roughly flat over the new
several years, with declining spending on voice services counterbalanced by
strong growth in spending on mobile data services.
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