O Gartner mostra em um estudo recém-divulgado que os gastos mundiais com TI devem superar US$ 3,6 trilhões em 2012. Os serviços na nuvem pública, por sua vez, devem passar de US$ 109 bilhões, em 2012, para mais de US$ 200 bilhões até 2016.

O Gartner realiza pesquisas e aconselhamentos sobre tecnologia para empresas globais. Os gastos mundiais com TI terão um crescimento de 3% em relação ao ano passado, se os resultados se comprovarem. A projeção do Gartner para 2012 foi revisada no último trimestre, que era de 2,5% de crescimento.

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Worldwide IT spending is on pace to reach $3.6 trillion in 2012, a 3 per cent increase from 2011 spending of $3.5 trillion, according to the latest outlook by Gartner, Inc. Gartner’s 2012 IT spending outlook has been revised up slightly from the 2.5 per cent projection last quarter.

Gartner’s global IT spending forecast is relied upon by more than 75 per cent of the Global 500 companies in their key technology decisions. The market segments are analysed by more than 200 Gartner business and technology analysts who are located in all regions of the world.

“While the challenges facing global economic growth persist — the eurozone crisis, weaker US recovery, a slowdown in China — the outlook has at least stabilised,” said Richard Gordon, research vice president at Gartner. “There has been little change in either business confidence or consumer sentiment in the past quarter, so the short-term outlook is for continued caution in IT spending.”

However, there are some bright spots for IT providers. In contrast to the rather lackluster growth outlook for overall IT spending, Gartner expects enterprise spending on public cloud services to grow from $91 billion worldwide in 2011 to $109 billion in 2012. By 2016, enterprise public cloud services spending will reach $207 billion.

“Business process as a service (BPaaS) still accounts for the vast majority of cloud spending by organisations, but other areas such as platform as a service (PaaS), software as a service (SaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) are growing faster,” Mr Gordon said.

Worldwide IT services spending is forecast to reach $864 billion in 2012, a 2.3 per cent increase from 2011 (see Table 1). Demand for consulting services is expected to remain high due to the complexity of environments for global business and technology leaders. Gartner analysts said consulting itself is becoming increasingly technology-based with the rise of analytics and big data, having deep implications on the future of consulting services.