Global IT spending will increase by 5.7% in 2011

IDC expects that global IT spending in 2011 will reach US$1.6 trillion, an increase of 5.7% over 2010. With hardware spending still strong (7.8% YoY), industry development will largely depend on the increase in software spending (up 5.3%), growth in project-related services (up 3.5%) and outsourcing business The increase (by 4%). The global IT industry's spending will also benefit from the accelerated recovery of emerging markets, which will account for more than half of all new IT IT spending in the world in 2011.

IDC expects that technologies such as cloud services, mobile computing and social networking will mature and blend with each other in 2011 and beyond, resulting in a brand new mainstream platform, both for the IT industry and for other industries it serves. in this way.

“In 2011, we expect that these transformational technologies will undergo a major shift from initial acceptance to preliminary trends,” said Frank Gens, senior vice president and chief analyst at IDC. "As a result, we will see that IT industry activities will increasingly focus on the construction and adoption of this next-generation main platform. Its main features are mobile, cloud-based applications and service delivery, and social services. In addition to creating new markets and opportunities, the assumptions of who will become the industry leader and how to achieve and maintain leadership will be overturned by the reconstruction of this structure."

The expenditure on public IT cloud services will increase by more than 5 times in the IT industry in 2011 and 30% in comparison with 2010, because more extensive business applications will be integrated into cloud technologies. The cloud application of SMEs will be blown out in 2011. By the end of the year, some cloud resources will be accepted by 33% of US medium-sized companies.

The use of various devices and mobile computing through a series of new applications will continue to expand rapidly in 2011, becoming another important stage in the new industry platform. IDC expects that in the next 18 months, shipments of non-PC (smartphone, media tablet, etc.) mobile devices will surpass PCs, and this trend will be irreversible.

As the traditional PC makers hope to keep their position in this rapidly expanding market, the mobile application market will have another fight. IDC expects to reach nearly 25 billion mobile application downloads in 2011, compared to just over 10 billion in 2010.

As the emerging mainstream IT platforms will be blended in the coming months, IDC expects that it will lay a solid foundation for IT vendors to support various “smart industry” transformations and benefit from them. For the retail industry, mobile communications and social networks are rapidly changing customers' shopping habits because they can bring their smartphones to the store to compare prices and view product recommendations. In terms of financial services, mobile communications and cloud are gradually turning mobile banking and payments into reality. For the medical industry, IDC expects 14% of US adults will use mobile medical applications in 2011.