Posted on April 12, 2021 by Nick Farrell - News
Beancounters at Gartner have added up some numbers and reached the conclusion that IT spending is set to rebound in 2021.
Global IT spending will reach $4 trillion in 2021, Gartner claims, an increase of 8.4 percent on the previous year.
Spending on devices is set to rocket by 14 pe cent this year to $755.8 billion. Enterprise software is the second-fastest-growing segment this year with spending set to grow by 10.8 percent to $571.7 billion. IT services spending will grow nine percent to 1.2 trillion, claims Gartner, data centre systems by 7.7 percent to 247.5 billion and communications services by 4.6 percent to $1.45 trillion