IDC recently published their 2013 predictions, with Mobile, Social, Cloud and Big Data platforms expected to drive 90% growth in the IT market between 2013 and 2020. I summarized the key 2013 trends are as follows:
- IT spending will exceed $2.1 trillion, driven by the adoption of smart mobile devices
- IT spending in the growth markets will represent 34% of worldwide spend, and 50% of all new growth in the IT marketplace
- Package applications providers like IBM, Microsoft and Oracle will become major Software as a Service (SaaS) providers
- There will be an explosion in Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings tailored for specific industry applications
- Converged systems will transition from hype to market reality, as enterprise datacenter and cloud-provider use cases converge
- Line of Business executives will drive the increasing adoption of industry solutions, with 60% of all new IT spend influenced by LOB executives
- Enterprises will transition from Social Network experimentation to integration
- Big Data investments investments will continue to grow, with a shift of focus to analytics and discovery tools, and analytic applications
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