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Mixed Results For IT Spending Forecasts

July 17, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan

We have made it through the first half of 2017, and now is a good time to take a pause and count the money that the IT vendors of the world have amassed from the hardware, software, and services they provide to the datacenters of the world. And so, IDC and Gartner have done just that even ahead of the reporting of financial results for the second quarter. The results from these two firms generally agree, and they show that, as always, different parts of the business are growing even as other parts slow or even shrink.

One big reason … “Mixed Results For IT Spending Forecasts”
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IT Budgets Partly Sunny Thanks To The Cloud

June 26, 2017 Dan Burger

Lowering costs is not the only thing to scrutinize when noodling the idea of moving selected IT workloads to the cloud. But people do tend to focus on that and wonder if the cloud saves money or if the costs just get moved around like the pea under the shell in the old carnival game.

Computer Economics, in its latest report on IT spending, presents data that credits cloud for the continued success of do-more-with-less strategies in IT departments of all shapes and sizes. The report backs that up by unearthing a five-year pattern of IT spending reductions figured … “IT Budgets Partly Sunny Thanks To The Cloud”
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