Spending More? As with the rest of the economy, IT spending has certainly reduced from it’s peak a few years ago, however it is on the rise again with Gartner predicting IT spend in 2012 to rise by 5.2% (excluding exchange rate fluctuations), across all sectors with the exception of spending in public/governmental sector which will shrink by 0.8%. What is particularly interesting is that small and medium sized businesses are those that are looking to increase their spend through to the end of 2016.
The Past was a Different Place In the old world of IT, the IT department would provide a few different models of devices that were allowed to connect to the corporate infrastructure, these were purchased, maintained and supported by the company, and that tended to be the way it was…Times have changed.