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Tariff uncertainty looms large over budget conscious CIOs

Updated It’s a feature not a bug, and what the US electorate voted for, says analyst

Personal Tech21 Jan 2025 | 33

Thousands of AI agents later, who even remembers what they do?

Gartner weighs the pros and cons of the latest enterprise hotness

AI + ML21 Nov 2024 | 35

AI's power trip will leave energy grids begging for mercy by 2027

Datacenter demand estimated to inflate by 160% over next two years

On-Prem13 Nov 2024 | 23

Killer app for AI is still years away, says industry analyst

IT spend set to rise nonetheless and it's not all about wundertech

AI + ML07 Nov 2024 | 27

Veeam tests support for another VMware alternative: XCP-NG

As Gartner rates the contenders for those contemplating a move off Virtzilla, with Nutanix on top of the list

Virtualization28 Oct 2024 | 3

Analysts predict 85 million EVs on roads by 2025 despite industry speed bumps

China will lead the way with North America trailing

Personal Tech15 Oct 2024 | 16

PC shipments stuck in neutral despite AI buzz

Analysts can't agree whether market is marginally up or down

Personal Tech10 Oct 2024 | 13

We're in the brute force phase of AI – once it ends, demand for GPUs will too

Gartner thinks generative AI is right for only five percent of workloads

AI + ML10 Sep 2024 | 65

AI bills can blow out by 1000 percent: Gartner

Preventing that is doable, but managing what happens when AI upsets people is hard

AI + ML09 Sep 2024 | 29

Amazon congratulates itself for AI code that mostly works

Web services souk celebrates 'leader' designation for Q Developer

AI + ML05 Sep 2024 | 10

AGI is on clients' radar but far from reality, says Gartner

Controversial concept may not even be a useful goal in computing

AI + ML22 Aug 2024 | 18

How deliciously binary: AI has yet to pay off – or is transforming business

Feature Calculating ROI of neural networks turns out to be rather complicated

CxO30 Jul 2024 | 69

Gartner nudges down global IT spending growth forecast as 'change fatigue' persists

Meanwhile, software vendors are left paying the GenAI 'tax' as users yet to see value

AI + ML16 Jul 2024 | 2

VMware license changes mean bare metal can make a comeback through 'devirtualization', says Gartner

Latest datacenter Hype Cycle also includes augmented reality, new types of memory, nuke power

VMware Explore03 Jul 2024 | 46

AI-assisted automation for clouds and networks climbs Gartner's hype cycles

Yes, AI will volunteer to run your IT estate. You might be a fool to trust it

AI + ML20 Jun 2024 | 2

AI chip sales predicted to jump by a third this year – then cool off

Gartner gives us a ray of hope amid ongoing hype and pressure to buy more hardware

AI + ML29 May 2024 | 1

Global IT spending forecast to reach $5.0T this year

Comms services and AI contributing to increase, but vendors are taking 'risks'

Networks17 Apr 2024 | 3

75% of enterprise coders will use AI helpers by 2028. We didn't say productively

Dev teams must beware inflated expectations of tech leadership, Gartner warns

Devops13 Apr 2024 | 45

Ethernet advances will end Nvidia's InfiniBand lead in AI networks

Desire to build brainboxes will also see optical interconnects go mainstream

Networks04 Apr 2024 | 7

Infosec teams must be allowed to fail, argues Gartner

But failing to recover from incidents is unforgivable because 'adrenalin does not scale'

Security18 Mar 2024 | 16

Governments not keen on pushing citizen-facing AI services, for obvious reasons

As soon as public sector implements GenAI, someone will do their best to break it... or even flirt with it

AI + ML06 Mar 2024 | 4

AI PC hype bubble swells, but software support lags marketing

Resistance is futile, upgrades are inevitable and so is hardware margin inflation

Personal Tech09 Feb 2024 | 20

Rise of deepfake threats means biometric security measures won't be enough

Defenses need a rethink in face of increasing sophistication

CSO01 Feb 2024 | 18

AI investment still at the planning stage through 2024, Gartner says

Imagined impact of GenAI on GDP is over-optimistic, analyst firm says

AI + ML17 Jan 2024 | 1

Now is a good time to buy memory because prices rise next year, Gartner predicts

To blame? The usual suspect – AI's appetite for chips

Systems04 Dec 2023 | 7

Digital democracy or IT anarchy? Gartner flags the low-code revolution

Without strong governance, incoming tools will wreak havoc for CIOs

CxO08 Nov 2023 | 17

Buyer's remorse haunts 3 in 5 business software purchases

They never do tell you about the unexpected costs and overly complex implementations

Applications18 Oct 2023 | 41

Guess what? Ask clouds to behave like old-school vendors, they will – and you lose

Same salespeople and same lock-in, which may actually help this time

Cloud Infrastructure Month13 Sep 2023 | 7

Billions of 'custobots' are coming online. Marketers may need to learn SEO for AI

You can't take a machine to lunch or put it to sleep with PowerPoint, but you can try to shape its worldview

AI + ML12 Sep 2023 | 15

GenAI proponents exploring its use alongside infrastructure-as-code

It’s not 'Alexa: build me a K8s cluster' but could become Ansible or Chef using models trained on log files to recommend what your app needs

AI + ML11 Sep 2023 | 3

Power grids tremble as electric vehicle growth set to accelerate 19% next year

Gas-guzzling US favors hybrids while Europe prefers battery power

Personal Tech08 Sep 2023 | 337

Gartner says hold onto your wallets as SAP's cloud pitch trades control for convenience

Updated Analyst firm warns that users need to understand what it is they're buying

PaaS + IaaS01 Sep 2023 | 1

Quarter of tech pros say they're considering quitting jobs in next six months

Bouyant jobs market and increased stress prompt exodus, says research

On-Prem26 Jul 2023 | 28

AI maybe on everyone's lips, but it's not what's driving IT spending

Software expected to top $1 trillion next year, according to analysts

Sysadmin Month19 Jul 2023 | 11

Metaverses are flopping – hard – says Gartner

Clunky, costly, literally sickening data silos just aren't better than the real world

Software28 Jun 2023 | 116

Before you sprinkle AI on all your analytics, check data quality

Gartner asks for some fundamentals in a slew of AI-in-analytics announcements

Databases25 May 2023 | 4

Multicloud isn't necessary, says Gartner … until it is

The downside is complexity. The upside, if you strategize properly, is specialist services and diversity

Off-Prem18 May 2023 | 13

Gartner: Stop worrying and love the cloud, with all its outages and lock-in

Yes, there are risks. But you can address them without huge multi-cloud failover rigs

Off-Prem15 May 2023 | 35

Don't get in a semiconductor 'doom spiral' – sector will be back with a bang in 2024

Next year's revenue forecast to surpass the halcyon days of 2022

Systems26 Apr 2023 | 2

Cloud can reduce greenhouse emissions, but don't assume it's automatic

Organizations can't outsource environmental challenges, warns Gartner

Energy Efficient Datacenters12 Apr 2023 | 5

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 | 35

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 | 16

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