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The Interplay Of GDP, Inflation, And IT Spending
Data changes behavior and behavior changes data. It is a phenomenon that is akin to the Observer Effect in physics in that you can’t observe something without changing its behavior. …
Gartner
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Inflation Up, Economy Jittery, And IT Spending Consequentially Slows
The increasing cost of goods and services is making everyone a little crazy, and corporate IT departments are not immune from the effects of the dual concerns of rising inflation and the desire by central banks to use interest rates to curb our economic enthusiasm and slow that inflation to a much more sane level. …
Cloud
Hybrid Cloud Should Benefit You, Not Bezos
We have always been convinced, and remain so, that there is no way that the largest organizations in the world will move their computing to one of the big cloud builders. …
Compute
The Interesting Years Ahead For Servers
By every measure we can get our hands on, 2022 was a bumper year for server shipments and server spending, which is good indicator for the appetite for new kinds of applications and the expansion of existing applications in the world at large. …
Compute
Datacenter Is The Hot Spot In IT Spending In 2022
If you follow the IT spending forecasts of IDC and Gartner, as we do with each revision, what you will notice is that spending forecasts are constantly changing as economic conditions change. …
Compute
The Future Comes Back Into The Equation For IT Spending
For nearly two years the world has been coping with the coronavirus pandemic, and it has had obvious and consequential effects on the market for hardware, software, and services in the datacenter. …
Compute
The Most Volatile IT Spending Year Is In The Rear View Mirror
The future has a nasty habit of being very hard to predict. …
Cloud
Public Cloud Doesn’t Dominate IT Quite Yet
Everyone in the IT industry likes drama, and we here at The Next Platform are no different. …
Compute
What The IT Spending Forecasts Don’t Tell You
There are so many annual rites in the IT sector that it almost has the feel of a religion sometimes. …
Cloud
Server Market Stats Mask True Underlying Value
You have no doubt heard the one about making it up in volume, a jokey phrase that people use when a business has to crank out more and more widgets to stay in the same place. …