TRENDING
P
eter Sondergaard, senior vice
president and global head of
research at Gartner, provided the
latest outlook for the IT industry today
to an audience of more than 600 CIOs
and IT leaders at Gartner Symposium/
ITxpo, which is taking place here
through March 3, that interconnections,
relationships, and algorithms are
defining the future of business.
“We see positive IT growth and scenarios
in the Middle East despite some level of
economic uncertainty in world markets,”
said Sondergaard. “The substantial
industrial refocusing to generate new
economic development beyond the oil
industry, with deepening smart cities
initiatives and adoption of the Internet
of Things (IoT), is of utmost importance
in this region. We are witnessing priorities
for smart city governments in education,
transportation, safety and health.”
With devices representing close to 19%
of total IT ME spending (see Table
1), tablets and PCs are showing good
momentum in the forecast period.
Tables and PC sales are forecast to reach
nearly $8 billion in 2016, and surpass
$10 billion in 2018. Mobile phone sales
will grow from slightly above $30 billion
in 2016 to nearly $37 billion in 2019.
With IT services doubling software
expenditures in 2016, business IT
services will represent 84% of the total
services segment; while in software,
enterprise application software will
present the largest growth rate in the
forecast period. However, in actual
spending dollars infrastructure software
will lead.
The data centre segment market is
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