IT Spending Rising Due to Increased Cloud and Telecommunications Expenditures

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Information technology spending is growing at a faster pace than originally forecasted Gartner Inc. announced. Telecommunication services leads the IT market and is expected to generate $1.7 trillion globally this year. Cloud services is another bright spot and is expected to grow from $91 billion worldwide in 2011 to $109 billion in 2012. Gartner’s IT spending forecast relies on analysis of sales by thousands of vendors and service providers.

“Business process as a service (BPaaS) still accounts for the vast majority of cloud spending by enterprises but  platform as a service (PaaS), software as a service (SaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) are growing faster,” said Richard Gordon, research vice president at Gartner.

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