IT expenses – less a priority terminals, unlike the … – ZDNet France

Global technology spending will decline as planned IT Gartner 2016, but the budget allocated to software and IT services continues her other hand to grow because of the systems migration to the cloud.

According to Gartner, 3.492 trillion dollars will be spent in iT in the world in 2016. This represents a decrease of 0.5% from the previous year. But in addition, the firm has adjusted its previous forecast, relying before a slight increase of 0.5%

Digital Company:. A Mode 2 IT

Several reasons are advanced for this recession, including the tendency for governments and businesses to cut spending due to economic uncertainty. And this cooling causes a contraction in spending on handsets and other equipment (-3.7%).

The intention of limiting such purchases organizations does not apply however to of other items of expenditure, particularly the software, including cloud mode. These expenses accompanied, among others, the development of infrastructure.

Gartner estimates that $ 321 billion will be allocated to software in 2016. As for data center systems, the firm evaluates the World spending to $ 175 billion.

“as you evolve to a digital business, you go to what we call mode 1, the traditional way of making IT, a mode 2 adopting IT faster, “commented to ZDNet John-David Lovelock, vice president of research for Gartner.

the main difference between the two systems is a transition of ownership of the asset to a service commitment: “Rather than owning licensed software – servers, storage, network devices, even phones to some extent – there is a tipping to digital services. “

The trades are not spending as ISD

This shift to the software could also explain some of the reduction in IT spending. John-David Lovelock points out that budgets pass ISD to business functions where lies specialization.

And according to the analyst, expenditures made outside of the IT division are more likely to focus on the Cloud or service offerings. “So instead of buying a server, I buy computing as a service, I just bought the little I need rather than I’ll eventually need. “

This buying behavior also encourage some companies to adopt open source technologies.

“It is surprising that when the CIO spends money, end users will require a higher level of product. Once their budget, they do not need all the bells and whistles of different products. So we see a lot of open source used, “said John-David Lovelock.