Recent research from analyst house Gartner has forecast a slight increase in global IT spend from 2011, with public cloud services and telecoms leading the way.

Telecoms continues to have the largest numbers in terms of IT spend, with nearly half of the overall spend ($1.7tn) accounted for in that sector, put down to net connections in emerging markets and multiple connected devices in more mature markets.

The cloud highlights of the research were:

• Overall IT spend is predicted to go up to $3.6tn this year, up 3% from $3.5tn in 2011
• The public enterprise cloud is expected to account for $109bn of global spend by the end of 2012, up $18bn from last year
• By 2016 the enterprise cloud spend will rise to $207bn

This increase, whilst not spectacular, is still good news in line with the bleak economic outlook.

Richard Gordon, Gartner research vice president …

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SYS-CON Events announced today that The Wall Street Technology Association has been named “Association Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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After cutting its annual worldwide IT spending forecast back last quarter, Gartner tickled it again this quarter.
It pegs the “lackluster” number at $3.6 trillion, up 3% over last year’s $3.5 trillion, a half a percent better than it thought three months ago.
Despite the eurozone crisis, the weak US recovery and the slowdown in China, it figures the “outlook has at least stabilized” but warns that “there has been little change in either business confidence or consumer sentiment in the past quarter, so the short-term outlook is for continued caution in IT spending.”
Cloud spending, however, looks modestly fluffier

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SYS-CON Events announced today that Tabor Communications has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Tabor Communications, Inc. is a leading international media, advertising, and communications company that provides solutions, news and information to the High Performance Computing (HPC), cloud, data-intensive and digital manufacturing communities. Publisher of HPCwire, and HPC in the Cloud, Datanami, and Digital Manufacturing Report, other Tabor Communications companies include Tabor Advertising and Tabor Publications & Events.

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When I sat down to write this post, I did some prep reading to see what the bloggers I follow were saying on the topic. But by the third post, I was reminded that we (the tech nerds) are not generally helpful. Tech nerds talk and write in our own language. We write to look […]

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