The analytical company Gartner has updated its forecast on global expenses on information technologies this year and has stated that they will probably increase by 7.1% up to 3.7 bln dollars. The growing expenses on the migration into the cloud computing as well as the integration of new IT services and software development is likely to become the main driven force.
Earlier Gartner forecasted the growth of expenses by 5.6% up to 3.4 bln dollars. According to Richard Gordon, Vice-President on R&D of the company, the growth of expenses will be observed in 2012 as well.
The expenses on cloud services will reach 89 bln dollars. However, cloud services are expected to present the sphere that will attract many other trends as well. By the year 2015, Gartner is expecting the expenses on cloud services will reach 177 bln dollars.
The expenses on telecommunication solutions will grow up to 2.1 bln dollars, which means the increase by 6.9% in comparison with the previous year. Thus, we are likely to expect that mobile software programming will develop as well and we’ll see many new cutting edge solutions in the nearest future.
According to the research company In-Stat, the competition in the OS market is shifting from software basic capabilities to functionality and ‘user’s experience’ which the phone can provide. Smartphones and communicators will develop not only at the programming level but also at the hardware level – sensor screens with high resolution, high-quality cameras, communication tools.