‘AI is not doing its job and should leave us alone’ says Gartner’s top analyst As for agentic AI, don’t get him started about the enormous challenge of making it work vendors just won't discuss AI + ML17 Jun 2025 | 72
Half of businesses rethink ditching humans for customer service bots Agentless contact center 'not yet technically feasible, nor operationally desirable' AI + ML11 Jun 2025 | 46
Go ahead and ignore Patch Tuesday – it might improve your security No rush, according to Gartner chap who says: 'Nobody has ever out-patched threat actors at scale' Patches14 May 2025 | 34
Data is very valuable, just don't ask us to measure it, leaders say After fifteen years of big hype, less than 25% of orgs measure value of data, analytics Databases21 Feb 2025 | 24
Intel knocked off global chip revenue top spot after rotten 2024 Missed the AI processor boat, split with CEO savior, lost #1 seat to Samsung Systems04 Feb 2025 | 5
Fear of the unknown keeps Broadcom's VMware herd captive. Don't be cowed Opinion Prisoners of ware can’t escape by looking at each other. Form a committee, soldiers Virtualization28 Jan 2025 | 31
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