Gartner: Tech mergers and acquisitions to peak in 2022
As pandemic volatility subsides, competition for acquisition targets will continue to increase, they say.
This week Gartner released its report entitled Tech CEO: Acquisition Strategies During COVID-19 and Implications for Providers. The study predicts that there will be more global M&A acti... Read more
Gartner predicts big role for graph technology in AI space
Gartner thinks that graph technology, which is emerging from the database market, could be the thing that finally helps us figure out all of the AI we have applied to understand the world we are creating.
The IT analysis firm said that graph processing is no longer relegated to the last position... Read more
PC market continues to boom despite shortage of chips
Gartner and IDC say worldwide PC shipments grew by a surprising amount in first quarter of 2021.
Despite a global shortage of semiconductor chips, the PC industry had a strong first quarter, according to research firm Gartner. They estimate that shipments of laptops and desktops rose 32 percent... Read more
Study: Digital transformation will drive tech spending higher
Gartner Research says that funding for the increased spending will come from outside IT departments
A new forecast from Gartner predicts worldwide IT spending to total $4.1 trillion in 2021. This jump represents an increase of 8.4% from 2020, according to the research group's quarterly IT spen... Read more
Gartner: low-code market enters hypergrowth due to COVID
The pandemic is creating demand from people doing DIY development projects, according to researchers.
The worldwide low-code development technologies market is projected to total $11.3 billion in 2021, according to the latest forecast by Gartner research. This represents an increase of 23.2% fro... Read more
‘Smartphone sales to see major boost in 2021’
Smartphone sales are set to rebound in 2021 from the dip the market went through in 2020. A total of one and a half billion new devices are estimated to be sold.
This is what Gartner writes in a report on the smartphone market. According to the research company, the corona pandemic and the still... Read more
Gartner predicts IT spending to hit the $3.9 trillion mark in 2021
Gartner released its estimate for global IT spending in 2021. The predictions indicate the sector will grow by 6.2% over the course of this year and balance out the decline of 3.2% it saw in 2020 due to the pandemic.
The research agency says that enterprises were forced to invest in 'mission-cri... Read more
Survey: determination and sensitivity needed for CIOs in 2021
New characteristics will be required due to the changes caused by the pandemic.
A new survey by Gartner says seventy percent of hiring processes of new CIOs rank individual determination and sensitivity as two critical personal characteristics in 2021.
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to shif... Read more
Gartner: Cloud computing to capture even more of your IT budget
The proportion of enterprise IT spending on public Cloud computing continues to increase.
Companies will be allocating even more of their IT budget on Cloud applications, according to industry analyst Gartner. According to their latest report, spending on public cloud services is going to grow 1... Read more
Gartner’s forecasts show EMEA IT spending will grow by 2.8% in 2021
Gartner forecasts that the IT spending in EMEA will total $1.075 trillion in 2021. Compared to 2020, that is a 2.8% increase. The same analyst firm says that IT spending in the region will fall 6.5% this year.
Combining Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic, most organizations have had to cut back on... Read more