{"id":4569,"date":"2014-04-23T07:00:54","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T15:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=4569"},"modified":"2014-04-03T07:21:44","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T15:21:44","slug":"global-it-market-enterprise-software-and-upgrades-to-drive-global-it-spending-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/global-it-market-enterprise-software-and-upgrades-to-drive-global-it-spending-in-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Global IT Market:  Enterprise Software and Upgrades to Drive Global IT Spending in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global IT spending is expected to grow by 3.2 percent in 2014 to $3.8 trillion, as <a title=\"Gartner estimates for the global IT market in 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gartner.com\/newsroom\/id\/2698017\" target=\"_blank\">estimated by Gartner<\/a>. \u00a0Much of the oomph behind the growth will come from Enterprise software which is expected to faster than twice the average at 6.9 percent, bringing that market up to $320 billion. \u00a0And within Enterprise software, data management, databases and social software are the segments expected to be most active.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Richard Gordon bio\" href=\"uk.linkedin.com\/pub\/richard-gordon\/0\/419\/bb3\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Gordon<\/a>, managing vice president at Gartner, said that &#8220;globally, businesses are shaking off their malaise and returning to spending on IT to support the growth of their business. \u00a0Consumers will be purchasing many new devices in 2014; however, there is a greater substitution toward lower cost and more basic devices than we have seen in prior years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Many businesses also now feel that the time is right to upgrade their technology investments. \u00a0<a title=\"Roger Kay bio\" href=\"www.linkedin.com\/pub\/roger-kay\/1\/237\/6a7\" target=\"_blank\">Roger Kay<\/a>, an analyst with Endpoint Technologies Associates,<a title=\"Roger Kay on Enterprise infrastructure upgrades\" href=\"http:\/\/business.newsfactor.com\/news\/Gartner--IT-Spending-Rising-this-Year\/story.xhtml?story_id=0030009MO7EF\" target=\"_blank\"> said that <\/a>&#8220;there has been a delay in the upgrade cycle&#8221; recently, but businesses see 2014 as a point as a chance to catch up. \u00a0But he warns that\u00a0&#8220;the cloud trend has people not buying certain kinds of hardware and software for their infrastructure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"John Lovelock bio\" href=\"ca.linkedin.com\/in\/johnlovelock\" target=\"_blank\">John Lovelock<\/a>,\u00a0Gartner research Vice President,<a title=\"PCWorld interview with John Lovelock\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2138840\/enterprise-software-devices-to-drive-it-spending-growth-this-year-gartner-says.html\" target=\"_blank\"> told PCWorld \u00a0that<\/a> &#8220;2014 is going to be a very different year than 2013&#8230; \u00a0But 2013 also had the specter of the future. 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