AI
IT Spending In 2024 Cools Thanks To “Change Fatigue”
Change may be inevitable, but it is also a pain in the neck. …
IT spending
Compute
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. …
Compute
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
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. …
Compute
The Outlook For Infrastructure Is Cloudy – In A Good Way
If we are ever going to know what affect the coronavirus pandemic has had on the IT sector, we have to keep track of what was going on before the outbreak started to hit us hard in the first quarter of 2020. …
Compute
IT Spending Projections Go Negative For 2020
“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” …
Compute
IT Spending Prognostication During The Great Infection
The Great Infection is unique among recessions in that it is essentially a self-imposed economic downturn, not the result of over-exuberance or excess optimism or greed, but by a spikey ball of fat that is not alive but is more like a self-replicating biological machine that only knows how to do one thing: Copy itself if it reaches the right sticky environment in time before it dries out and falls apart. …