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 Week13 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 | 119
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 | 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 | 27
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