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Worldwide IT Spending Forecast (Billions of U.S. Dollars) 2010
2010
Computing Hardware Enterprise Software IT Services
Telecom Equipment Telecom Services All IT
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disk storage portfolio supports its market share gains, with V-Max continuing to produce strong year-over-year revenue results. As evidenced by network attached storage’s 42.7 percent year-over-year growth in the third quarter of 2010, users continue to show a growing preference for modular ECB disk storage systems rather than the more-costly monolithic frame-based disk storage systems. While EMC and Fujitsu produced year- over-year revenue gains in the third quarter of 2010, the monolithic frame-based disk storage market declined to 24.5 percent of the total ECB disk storage market. HP’s market share loss was due to its anemic position in the fast-growing NAS segment coupled with ongoing EVA year-over-year revenue declines.
While essentially holding its position in the modular ECB segment Oracle’s market share decline was due to the discontinuance of the reseller relationship with HDS for the high-end monolithic frame-based 9000 series. Despite a 47.9 percent year-over-year revenue gain with its EqualLogic PS-series, Dell did not improve its market share position because of continued declines in Dell/EMC co-branded products. Even though the IBM XIV Storage System attained a 112 percent year-over- year increase in the third quarter of 2010, IBM’s spotty performance with its DS-series resulted in a modest decline in market share.
Hitachi/Hitachi Data Systems third quarter results remained constrained due to the transition from the older USP-V and USP-VM systems to the just released VSP high-end monolithic frame-based disk array system. Fujitsu’s strength stemmed from robust sales of the high- end ETERNUS DX8000 series in Japan. Gartner ECB disk storage reports reflect hardware only revenue, as well as hardware revenue associated with financial leases and managed services. Optional and separately priced storage software revenue and storage area network infrastructure components are excluded.
IT spending to grow Worldwide IT spending is forecast to total $3.6 trillion in 2011, a 5.1 percent increase from 2010, according to the latest outlook by Gartner, Inc. In 2010, worldwide IT spending totaled $3.4 trillion, up 5.4 percent from 2009 levels. Gartner has raised its outlook for 2011 global IT spending from its previous forecast of 3.5 percent growth. In 2010, the IT industry performed better than Gartner’s previous forecast of 3.2 percent growth. Gartner analysts said currency exchange rate fluctuations have continued to affect the U.S. dollar-denominated forecast. Of the 2.2 percentage point increase in IT spending growth in 2010, 1.6 percent is attributable to the recent devaluation of the U.S. dollar against other currencies.
“Aided by favorable U.S. dollar exchange rates, global IT spending growth is expected to exceed 5 percent in 2010, but a similar level of growth in 2011 - while forecast - is far from certain, given continued macroeconomic uncertainty,” said Richard Gordon, research vice president at Gartner. “While the global economic situation is improving, the recovery is slow and hampered by a sluggish growth outlook in the important mature economies of the U.S. and Western Europe.
There are also growing concerns about the ability of key emerging economies to sustain relatively high growth rates. Nevertheless, as well as a fundamental enabler of cost reduction and cost optimization, investment in IT is seen increasingly as an important element in business growth strategies. As the global economy repairs itself in coming years, we are optimistic about continued healthy spending on IT.”
The computing hardware segment is forecast to grow 7.5 percent in 2011, but Gartner analysts said vendors face possible challenges, particularly in the area of PC growth, given likely weak economic growth through the first half of 2011.
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Spending 364.1 235.9 782.0 426.6
1,593.0 3,401.6
Growth (%) 8.9 6.1 2.5
14.0 3.9 5.4
2011
Spendin 391.3 253.7 817.9 465.4
1,647.4 3,575.8
2011
Growth (%) 7.5 7.5 4.6 9.1 3.4 5.1
Source: Gartner (January 2010)
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