Gartner predicts global IT spending to grow by 6.2% this year

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Accelerating digital transformation will outweigh the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

Gartner has published a forecast of global information technology (IT) spending for the current year. According to analysts, these costs will amount to $ 3.9 billion, which is 6.2% more than last year. For comparison: last year, IT spending decreased by 3.2% due to the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global economy. The positive impact of accelerating digital transformation is expected to outweigh the pandemic’s negative impact this year.

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Gartner predicts global IT spending to grow by 6.2% this year.

Telecommunications services will remain the largest expense item. Having decreased by 1.7% last year, they will grow by 4.5% this year to reach $ 1.410 trillion. IT services, in second place, will show an increase of 6.0% to $ 1.072 trillion.

Sales of devices hit hardest by the pandemic (last year, this spending on this item fell by 8.2%), will grow by 8.0% to reach $ 705.4 billion. Enterprise software sales will show the highest growth – 8.8%. In absolute terms, $ 505.7 billion will be spent on this item. Finally, sales of data center systems will grow 6.2% to $ 228.4 billion.

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