Gartner Says Worldwide IT Spending on Pace to Grow 2.1 Percent in 2014

http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2783517

Table 1. Worldwide IT Spending Forecast (Billions of U.S. Dollars)

	2013 Spending	2013 Growth (%)	2014 Spending	2014 Growth (%)	2015 Spending	2015 Growth (%)
Devices	677	1.1	685	1.2	725	5.8
Data Center Systems	140	-0.1	140	0.4	144	2.9
Enterprise Software	300	5.1	321	6.9	344	7.3
IT Services	932	0.0	967	3.8	1,007	4.1
Telecom Services	1,624	-1.2	1,635	0.7	1,668	2.0
Overall IT	3,673	0.0	3,749	2.1	3,888	3.7

Source: Gartner (June 2014) 

Gartner: Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends For 2014

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterhigh/2013/10/14/gartner-top-10-strategic-technology-trends-for-2014/

1. Mobile Device Diversity and Management

2. Mobile Apps and Applications

3. The Internet of Everything

4. Hybrid Cloud and IT as Service Broker

5. Cloud/Client Architecture

6. The Era of Personal Cloud

7. Software Defined Anything

8. Web-Scale IT

9. Smart Machines

10. 3-D Printing