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Gartner: IT spending to rise 3.7 percent in 2012

...percent. For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Gartner lowers global IT spending forecast for 2012 on CNET News. Get the latest technology... Read more

6 January, 2012 by Lance Whitney
Breaking Through the Storage I/O Barrier for Cloud Computing

Breaking Through the Storage I/O Barrier for Cloud Computing

...at 30 percent per year, which is a 5x higher rate than global IT spending in 2011.2 With this impressive and continuing growth, one... Read more

1 April, 2011

Cloud computing: Mid-sized firms are investing

...predicted that spending on cloud technologies would increase five times faster than global IT spending Read more

11 March, 2011 by Shelley Portet

IT spending outlook 'extremely volatile'

Continuing economic uncertainty and the Iraq war have resulted in a lower IDC forecast for IT spending Read more

4 April, 2003 by Dawn Kawamoto

Global IT spending to fall by 10pc

Researcher Forrester's prediction is a significant increase on its earlier forecast that worldwide IT spending would drop three percent in 2009 Read more

1 July, 2009 by Jo Best

Analyst: Slowdown in global IT spending continues

A record number of companies will cut their IT budgets or keep spending flat next year, according to market analyst Datamonitor Read more

19 September, 2008 by Nick Heath

Global IT spending growth slumps

As baby boomers help healthcare escape budget cuts Read more

18 September, 2008 by Nick Heath

Analysts: IT spending to bounce back in 2010

...the spending uptick in a report published last week, which estimated that global IT spending will grow 8.1 percent in 2010 to reach more... Read more

19 January, 2010 by Steve Ranger

Gartner forecasts growth in IT spending for 2008

Global IT spending will rise eight percent on last year, to £1.8tn... Read more

19 August, 2008 by Margaret Kane

Hardware upgrades fuel tech spending outlook

...market to grow 8.4 percent, up from 8.1 percent previously. Global IT spending will be 7.7 percent, down from Forrester's previous... Read more

12 April, 2010 by Larry Dignan

EMC and VMware report difficult quarters

...2008. "As we look to the balance of 2009, we believe the global IT spending environment has reached, or is very near, the bottom," EMC... Read more

24 April, 2009 by Colin Barker

What the credit crunch means for IT

...spend will be resilient to the economic slowdownDespite forecasting a fall in global IT spending, the Economist Intelligence Unit said the drop will be below... Read more

17 September, 2008 by Nick Heath

Analysts downgrade 2008 global IT outlook

...in line with those of fellow analyst house Gartner, whose most recent global IT spending growth forecast is also around six percent. The US financial... Read more

12 February, 2008 by Suzanne Tindal

Microsoft sets dividend, splits stock

The software giant has set its first-ever annual stock dividend and says it will split its stock, as earnings surpass expectations. Even the Xbox is a surprise earner Read more

17 January, 2003 by Joe Wilcox

HP warns again

...of HP, said there was still no sign of an upturn in global IT spending and that HP would need to adopt a 'cautious' approach... Read more

7 June, 2001 by Sonya Rabbitte

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