IT depts struggle with skills shortages despite Big Tech layoffs You'd think there'd be more techies on the market, but many cuts were in business areas On-Prem22 Mar 2023 | 63
Bosses failing to offer hybrid work lose out in recruitment Gartner finds pandemic-related trend is becoming the norm On-Prem01 Mar 2023 | 34
Sweating the assets: Techies hold onto PCs, phones for longer than ever Discounts coming to clear inventory as device makers hit by inflation, interest rates, conflict in Ukraine Personal Tech31 Jan 2023 | 68
Enterprise IT giant layoffs happened because 'some CEOs got ahead of their skis' Spending still rosy despite job loss clouds, market seers say On-Prem18 Jan 2023 | 7
2022 started with a bang but ended with a whimper for semiconductor companies Global revenues grew just 1.1% compared to 25% the year before Systems17 Jan 2023 | 1
Those low-code tools devs love so much? They'll grow 20% in 2023, says Gartner Oh joy. Effect on software development inevitable, but it's clearly not devs' replacement, says analyst Software13 Dec 2022 | 18
SAP still struggling to convert ECC customers to S/4HANA, says Gartner Latest platform software has not been licensed by two-thirds of legacy users, despite strong growth Databases06 Dec 2022 | 7
CIOs in Europe warned: Be wary of tech price inflation Weakness of local currencies vs the dollar will force US vendors to act and act again On-Prem10 Nov 2022 | 4
Oracle and Huawei clouds the big movers on Gartner's conjured quadrilateral AWS warned for burning customers, Azure for 'punitive' licensing, while Google's losses are a worry Off-Prem01 Nov 2022 | 7
Gartner thinks enterprise IT will be immune to recession Tech dept still wearing halo from saving companies in lockdown... plus cloud committers 'can't cut that spending' PaaS + IaaS19 Oct 2022 | 12
Businesses can halve 'megavendor' software costs with third-party support COVID-19, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, growing inflation, and the threat of recession driving adoption Software23 Sep 2022 |
Hybrid work not working? Try building an 'intraverse' to fix it, says Gartner It’s the mutant offspring of an intranet and a metaverse and even if it flops, you'll get some kudos Software12 Sep 2022 | 25
Government buyers take 22 months on average to procure tech Teams too big, operate in silos, lack subject matter experts and C-suite exec buy-in On-Prem06 Sep 2022 | 32
Green alert: SaaS giants may use sustainability to justify price hikes Which should make you see red because using renewable energy is supposed to cut their costs SaaS01 Sep 2022 | 4
ServiceNow: Customers 'struggling to understand the value of ELAs', says Gartner Updated Enterprise agreements can increase pricing, marring an overall positive assessment from the analyst PaaS + IaaS24 Aug 2022 | 11
IT departments often regret technology buying decisions The longer the purchase takes, the more frustrating, says Gartner On-Prem15 Jul 2022 | 52
IT spending set to ride out wave of global economic uncertainty Market watchers see device spending downturn as blip in robust bigger picture On-Prem14 Jul 2022 |
Global PC market falls at fastest rate in 9 years Nothing shiny about US Chromebook sales anymore, plus war in Ukraine and inflation hits EMEA shipments Personal Tech12 Jul 2022 | 7
Vendors are hiking prices up to 30 percent and claiming 'it's inflation' No it's not, says Gartner – it's a hardcore sales tactic you can easily counter Software07 Jul 2022 | 29
Gartner predicts 9.5% drop in PC shipments Stark contrast to 11 percent increase year-over-year in 2021 shipments Personal Tech30 Jun 2022 | 4
Governments opt for XaaS, dump datacenters in droves Outsource all the things! To whom? The lowest bidder of course, says Gartner PaaS + IaaS13 Jun 2022 | 4
Renegotiating a Salesforce software agreement? It could take up to two years Salesforce complexity can be 'difficult and expensive to govern', especially for multicloud, warns Gartner SaaS31 May 2022 | 8
Oracle contracts and pricing a 'challenge', says Gartner While heaping praise on Big Red, analysts find room to criticize licensing, negotiations, and integration Databases21 Apr 2022 | 6
Cloud spending to scrape $500 billion this year – Gartner Growing enterprise demand for more complex cloud-native services carries a higher price tag PaaS + IaaS20 Apr 2022 | 9
Only 29% of techies truly want to stay in current job Great Resignation? Flexibility and work-life-balance key factors in how IT staff choose next employer On-Prem09 Mar 2022 | 60
Network equipment lead times to remain painfully long into 2023: Gartner Jump the queue by spending more with one player or thinking outside the box Networks25 Feb 2022 | 7
Mobile-based ID wallets for government are coming Among top 10 government tech trends, claims Gartner Applications24 Feb 2022 | 23
Party on Semiconductor Street as worldwide 2021 revenues top record half a trillion dollars Gartner reports 25.1% growth off the back of supply chain pain On-Prem19 Jan 2022 | 7
Like nuclear fusion, funding of IT on the basis of revenue generation is just around the corner, Gartner says Spending up while growth slows, as business app investment leads the charge Software11 Nov 2021 | 3
'Automate or die!' Gartner reckons most biz apps will be developed via low-code by the people who use them Also: AI is near the 'trough of disillusionment' Applications10 Nov 2021 | 28
Global IT spending to hit $4.5 trillion in 2022, says Gartner The future's bright, and expensive On-Prem20 Oct 2021 | 3
Is that a meteor crashing to Earth? No, it's Chromebook makers coming back to reality US market – where 70% Chromies are sold – nears saturation Personal Tech13 Oct 2021 | 41
Gartner's Windows 11 adoption advice: Explore but don't rush Analyst firm says new OS doesn't offer much to biz, so doesn't warrant rapid upgrade OSes07 Oct 2021 | 40
Memory prices to dive in late 2022, says Gartner Firm says 40 per cent of a server's bill of material costs are tied to memory Systems23 Sep 2021 | 6
Gartner predicts surge in government IT spending in post-pandemic catch-up 'Unprecedented public demand' as dear leaders heave services for world+dog online Systems31 Aug 2021 | 6
Gartner Gartner on the wall, which is the hypest cycle of them all? Comment Omnipresent analyst house returns to the source Personal Tech24 Aug 2021 | 35
Customers warn Gartner of AWS's high-pressure sales tactics in latest verdict on public cloud providers Top three no surprise but users offer some sharp comments PaaS + IaaS03 Aug 2021 | 21
Hijacked, rampaging infrastructure will kill humans by 2025 – Gartner Rise of The Machines Ransomware efforts will inevitably lead to threats to life as attacks on OT go OTT Bootnotes21 Jul 2021 | 27
Where on Gartner's Hype Cycle is Gartner's Hype Cycle? Column That's the way uh-huh uh-huh, I hype it On-Prem19 Jul 2021 | 44
IPv6 still 5-10 years away from mainstream use, but K8s networking and multi-cloud are now real Gartner’s latest Hype Cycle for Enterprise Networking labels network observability and SDN vendor jargon Networks15 Jul 2021 | 63
Pyjama bottoms crew, listen up: In 2022 we'll still be at home Huge shift in working patterns continues into next year, according to the all-seeing eye of... Gartner Offbeat23 Jun 2021 | 32
To CAPTCHA or not to CAPTCHA? Gartner analyst says OK — but don’t be robotic about it Poll Picking street signs from a matrix of images is out, cleverer challenges are OK Security22 Jun 2021 | 60
Graph databases to map AI in massive exercise in meta-understanding Is Gartner ahead of its time, or just bonkers? You. Be. The. Judge. Databases20 May 2021 | 10
If you said the semiconductor shortage will last until Q2 2022, you would be correct, according to Gartner Chip in if you want more chips, analyst house suggests On-Prem12 May 2021 | 1
Words to strike fear into admins' hearts: One in five workers consider themselves 'digital experts' these days So clever that more than half are using their own gear for work, says Gartner Off-Prem27 Apr 2021 | 91
How big might IT spending get in 2021? Gartner: How about $4 trillion. And no, you can't have a new MacBook Ball gazers don't see devices flying off shelves in 2022. Do they know something we don't? Personal Tech07 Apr 2021 | 11
Sweet! Your boss is going to get you a plush new headset, says Gartner as wearable spending to soar almost 20% Analysts predict market to grow to $81.5bn from $68.9bn in 2021 Personal Tech12 Jan 2021 | 4
Stop worrying and learn to love COVID-driven digital transformation, says Gartner Survey sees CIOs loosening purse-strings, execs feeling mushy about IT crowd (but there are caveats) On-Prem11 Nov 2020 | 7
Your IT department should behave like a jellyfish, says Gartner Analyst firm asserts coordinated action without central brain is the way to cope with turmoil Devops27 Oct 2020 | 32
Oh! What a lovely lockdown: Lenovo enjoys soaraway sales for Q3 2020 as PC shipments jump – Dell, not so much HP is top dog stateside On-Prem13 Oct 2020 | 1
HubSpot must prove core sales features to be taken seriously in enterprise CRM market To compete against Salesforce, Oracle and co, software slinger needs to do more, says analyst Software25 Sep 2020 | 2
Gartner on cloud contenders: AWS fails to lower its prices, Microsoft 'cannot guarantee capacity', Google has 'devastating' network outages Take your pick, folks! Latest Magic Bifurcation has some strong caveats, but little is likely to change SaaS09 Sep 2020 | 31
No, Kubernetes doesn’t make applications portable, say analysts. Good luck avoiding lock-in, too K8s may even make it hard to use the cloud’s best bits Software08 Sep 2020 | 16
Not now, Gartner. We've had enough of the future to last a lifetime: Meet 'Formative AI' and 'Algorithmic Trust' You can call me Al Science19 Aug 2020 | 24
Spending on 5G to double despite the pandemic while legacy network infrastructure sector suffers – Gartner Also, half of the world's 5G investment currently is spent by China Networks28 Jul 2020 | 9
WTF is cloud-tethered compute? We're not sure either, but it just made a hype cycle for the first time Edge and serverless about to slide into the trough of disillusionment On-Prem27 Jul 2020 | 28
Reporting live from Gartner pandemic watch: IT spending is shrinking by X this year, I mean Y Don't even get started on 2021.... please On-Prem13 Jul 2020 | 6
Pandemic proves just the tonic for PC sales as shipments shoot upwards Supply chains are working again Personal Tech10 Jul 2020 | 23
Containers to capture 15% of all enterprise apps across 75% of business by 2024 But the real money is in services and IaaS, not software, says Gartner’s first lash at container futures Devops25 Jun 2020 | 8
Consumer hardware shipments forecast to drop 14% for 2020, but hey, it could be worse, says Gartner Thank heavens everyone had to start working from home, right? Personal Tech26 May 2020 | 4
$500bn fewer greenbacks to be forked out on IT in 2020 due to... well, you know what Gartner slashes pre-pandemic spending forecast On-Prem13 May 2020 | 5
DRAM, son. Semiconductor revenue fell 12% last year. At least 2020 will be better, right? Right? DRAM and NAND struggle with swollen inventories and low demand – Gartner On-Prem16 Apr 2020 |