{"id":2537,"date":"2012-07-09T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2309720"},"modified":"2012-07-09T17:44:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T17:44:00","slug":"cloud-computing-cloud-spending-looking-a-bit-fluffier-gartner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-computing-cloud-spending-looking-a-bit-fluffier-gartner\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing &#8211; Cloud Spending Looking a Bit Fluffier: Gartner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After cutting its annual worldwide IT spending forecast back last quarter, Gartner tickled it again this quarter.<br \/>\nIt pegs the \u201clackluster\u201d number at $3.6 trillion, up 3% over last year\u2019s $3.5 trillion, a half a percent better than it thought three months ago.<br \/>\nDespite the eurozone crisis, the weak US recovery and the slowdown in China, it figures the \u201coutlook has at least stabilized\u201d but warns that \u201cthere 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.\u201d<br \/>\nCloud spending, however, looks modestly fluffier <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2309720\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After cutting its annual worldwide IT spending forecast back last quarter, Gartner tickled it again this quarter.<br \/>\nIt pegs the \u201clackluster\u201d number at $3.6 trillion, up 3% over last year\u2019s $3.5 trillion, a half a percent better than it thought thr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}