Monday, January 18, 2010

Gartner Prediction: By 2012, 20 percent of businesses will own no IT assets.

Gartner's New Year predictions included a pretty impressive statistic that confirms the "IT Free Business" trend which Memia is working towards for our customers:

"By 2012, 20 percent of businesses will own no IT assets. Several interrelated trends are driving the movement toward decreased IT hardware assets, such as virtualization, cloud-enabled services, and employees running personal desktops and notebook systems on corporate networks.

The need for computing hardware, either in a data center or on an employee's desk, will not go away. However, if the ownership of hardware shifts to third parties, then there will be major shifts throughout every facet of the IT hardware industry. For example, enterprise IT budgets will either be shrunk or reallocated to more-strategic projects; enterprise IT staff will either be reduced or reskilled to meet new requirements, and/or hardware distribution will have to change radically to meet the requirements of the new IT hardware buying points."


For the rest of Gartner's predictions see http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1278413

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