Cloud Computing, Big Data and Smart Mobile Apps will Drive IT Spending in 2014
July 22, 2013
Grazed from CloudTimes. Author: Saroj Kar.
Forrester released the data of its annual survey on IT spending worldwide and detects areas with higher spending, including apps and tablets. Forrester Research annual report on worldwide IT spending split the amount of 2.06 trillion dollars spent this year from businesses and governments between hardware, software and services related to information technology world. CIOs and IT decision-makers plan their biggest software spending increases in mobile applications and middleware, analytics, security, and collaboration software.
Software registered largest share of tech spending in 2013 and companies will continue to spend in this segment particularly on smart and cloud computing in 2014. While investment in legacy applications (both desktop and server) begins to languish, most investment moves towards cloud computing solutions, SaaS solutions development and towards the smart computing, i.e. Big Data and mobile application development…
Software market spending increased to $542 billion in total investment. The market will grow by 3.3% this year and 6.2% in 2014, with a surge not impressive, but still stronger than any other technology category. Next to the software, the PC still continue to dominate the market with an amount invested in 2013 amounted to $134.2 billion. The PC industry sets to look shrink very quickly with a growth rate of 3%, despite the launch of the new Windows 8 operating system…
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