Gartner: Global IT spending is expected to increase by 5.3% this year

According to foreign media reports, Gartner, an investigative agency, said in Monday that global IT spending is expected to increase 5.3% to 3.39 trillion dollars this year, boosted by strong consumer demand for PCs and a weaker dollar. "After strong sales in the fourth quarter of last year, the hardware supply chain and the global economy continued to improve in the first quarter of this year, and it spending will grow steadily this year," said Richard Gordon, vice president of Gartner Research, in a statement.　　"Gartner says nearly 4% of growth will come from a forecast of a decline in the dollar, which will grow 1.6% per cent this year, and a 1.4% drop last year."　　Gartner expects global software spending to grow by 5.1% to $232 billion trillion, with most corporate software markets growing. The global IT services market grew by 5.7% to 821 billion dollars. Finish)