It's easy to get shook up about the economy, the dearth of consumer and business demand, wild bucking bronco financial markets, the downgrade of our sovereign debt, the low interest rates and pinched lending; and the low morale in some circles of the economy.
But in the IT republic, it's a different story.
Gartner forecasts that worldwide IT spending will total $3.67 trillion in 2011, with the research group citing a 7.1 percent increase from $3.43 trillion in 2010, according to the latest outlook. Gartner has even adjusted its research guidance based on volatility in the U.S. dollar exchange rate, which favors exporting IT products and services when the dollar is weak and homegrown expansion when the dollar is strong. Either way, dollars are still circulating in the IT resource strategy and planning arena, if these figures are any indication of such a trend. To that end, Gartner slightly raised its outlook for 2011 from its previous forecast of 5.6 percent growth, largely due to U.S. dollar exchange rate fluctuations.
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Posted by Jabulani Leffall on August 15, 20110 comments
The big play service, product and financed distributor Ingram Micro Inc., just tacked on three new cloud services to help MSPs and VARs on sell-through options. Ingram had previously unveiled the new services at test runs at the Cloud Summit in June of 2011.
In August, Ingram hopes N-central, the remote management and monitoring (RMM) platform from N-Able Technologies and Trend Micro's Worry-Free Business Security Services, along with SEP.cloud, Symantec's Endpoint Protection.cloud, will help shore up business continuity and service options for partners.
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Posted by Jabulani Leffall on August 15, 20110 comments