{"id":2545,"date":"2012-07-10T10:49:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T10:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/jul\/10\/gartner-research-enterprise-cloud-vital-it-spend\/"},"modified":"2012-07-10T10:49:16","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T10:49:16","slug":"gartner-research-enterprise-cloud-vital-to-it-spend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/gartner-research-enterprise-cloud-vital-to-it-spend\/","title":{"rendered":"Gartner research: Enterprise cloud vital to IT spend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The cloud highlights of the research were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Overall IT spend is predicted to go up to $3.6tn this year, up 3% from $3.5tn in 2011<\/li>\n<li>The public enterprise cloud is expected to account for $109bn of global spend by the end of 2012, up $18bn from last year<\/li>\n<li>By 2016 the enterprise cloud spend will rise to $207bn<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This increase, whilst not spectacular, is still good news in line with the bleak economic outlook.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Gordon, Gartner research vice president &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<br \/>\nTelecoms continues to have the largest numbers in terms of IT spend, with nearly half of th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}