IT and Telecom Predictions in 2011 by Numbers
- Worldwide IT spending will grow 5.7%.
- Emerging markets will drive 27% of IT market spending and 54% of growth.
- Public and private clouds will drive 15% of IT spending, growing at four to five times the rate of the overall IT market.
- 80% of new software offerings will be available as cloud services; by 2014, over one-third of software purchases will be via the cloud.
- Cloud and traditional service providers will account for 12% of IT infrastructure spending, growing to 20% by 2014.
- 330 million smartphones and over 42 million media tablets will be sold.
- One-half of the 2.1 billion people connecting regularly to the Internet will access the Internet through (non-PC) mobile devices.
- Almost 30% of the $447 billion the National Retail Federation expects in U.S. holiday shopping will be driven by the 24% of shoppers who are active to very active mobile device users.
- 14% of adult Americans will use a mobile health app to manage their health, wellness, and chronic conditions.
- Over 1 million mobile apps will be available on Apple's iTunes Store and Google's Android Market, combined, as people download over 25 billion apps.
- Only 1% of mobile phones will be 4G capable.
- Social networking software will grow at 38% on average over the next five years; over one-quarter of vendors could be gobbled up in 2011.
- The "digital universe" of information and content will expand by almost 50% — to almost 2 trillion gigabytes Nearly half of TVs 40in. or larger sold in the United States will have networking built in.
- Mobile advertising in the United States will reach nearly $2 billion — up 120%.
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