IT spending forecasts in 2013 ..

Worldwide IT spending forecast^[37] (billions of U.S. dollars)

Category	2012 spending	2013 spending
Devices	627	666
Data center systems	141	147
Enterprise software	278	296
IT services	881	927
Telecom services	1,661	1,701
Total	3,588	3,737

courtesy wikipedia ..

Almost 46% spending will be in the area od telecom services, communications etc..

Cloud and enterprise software applications will grow.

Only 18% will be from hardware while 82% spending will be on software and services.

Click here for the 2013 IT report from WEF ..

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