The trending realities of the new IT Convergence.

When it comes to IT spending; it is exciting to observe that, investments in software, R&D, services, Innovations, and skills continue to accelerate in the mature economies; while in the emerging economies, Connectikpeople.co, soon #Retinknow® is particularly seduced by their leapfrogging capacities, with regard to appropriate quickly the new IT Convergence.

Regarding the worldwide IT spending, if the smartphones and Tablets continue to lead the trend, the strongest growth will come from data analytics and data management technologies, collaborative applications and Big Data technologies, Social platforms, and Cloud technologies.

According to IDC, the U.S. tablet market is now forecast to increase by just 2% this year, but will rebound to 7% growth in 2015 as the PC cycle begins to wane. Worldwide tablet spending has slowed from 29% year-over-year growth last year to 8% in 2014, but will accelerate back to double-digit growth next year (10%). Penetration rates in emerging markets such as China will continue to increase, while some enterprise spending will shift back to tablets.

‘’Excluding mobile phones, IT spending in China will increase by 5% this year (up from growth of just 2%, excluding phones, in 2013). Server spending in China will increase by 7% (compared to 0% in 2013), storage spending by 8% (up from 1.5% in 2013), and software by 9% (up from 7% last year), but overall market growth is still weighed down by the declining PC market.

Other emerging markets are likely to improve over the next 12 months as business confidence stabilizes. IT spending in India will increase by 15% next year, up from 8% in 2014. In Brazil, the market will accelerate from 10% growth this year to 13% next year. In Russia, where the crisis in Ukraine has damaged business and investor confidence since the beginning of the year, the market is set to decline slightly in 2014 before rebounding to 7% growth in 2015’’, said IDC.