admin According to the latest forecast by Gartner, Inc., Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3.79 trillion in 2019, an increase of 1.1 percent from 2018.
The data center systems segment will experience the largest drop in 2019 with a decrease of 2.8 percent. This is primarily due to expected lower average selling prices (ASPs) in the server market driven by adjustments in the pattern of expected component costs.
“Currency headwinds fueled by the strengthening U.S. dollar have caused us to revise our 2019 IT spending forecast down from the previous quarter,” said John-David Lovelock, research vice president at Gartner.
“Through the remainder of 2019, the U.S. dollar is expected to trend stronger, while enduring tremendous volatility due to uncertain economic and political environments and trade wars. In 2019, technology product managers will have to get more strategic with their portfolio mix by balancing products and services that will post growth in 2019 with those larger markets that will trend flat to down,” he added.
The shift of enterprise IT spending from traditional (noncloud) offerings to new, cloud-based alternatives is continuing to drive growth in the enterprise software market. In 2019, the market is forecast to reach $427 billion, up 7.1 percent from $399 billion in 2018. The largest cloud shift has so far occurred in application software, but Gartner expects increased growth for the infrastructure NSE -1.08% software segment in the near-term, particularly in integration platform as a service (iPaaS) and application platform as a service (aPaaS). Worldwide IT Spending Forecast (Billions of U.S. Dollars)
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