AI AND ML Tech sector pours $1T into AI and sends customers the bill History's biggest infrastructure build-out is pushing up hardware and software prices, analyst says
off prem Google Cloud outage shows it’s still hard to understand hyperscalers’ real resilience regimes UPDATED: Single datacenter and just three services taken down by ‘upstream’ power problem and failure of diesel generators
AI AND ML AI ops tools will create console sprawl and break IT more often: Gartner Yet by 2030, a quarter of the IT ops work you do now will be handled by an unsupervised clanker
personal tech At last, a good reason to buy an AI PC: Reining in runaway token bills Gartner thinks we’re headed to a hybrid AI model where you offload stuff to the desktop whenever possible
on-prem Datacenter growth may run into a power wall by 2030 Grid operators could struggle to support new bit barn construction
AI + ML Most generative AI and custom model projects will be a bust: Gartner To succeed, look to China
AI + ML 4 in 10 AI agents headed for demotion or the rubbish bin Gartner predicts governance struggles to plague rollout of this year’s much-hyped technology
SaaS SAP customers warned AI agents could put costs on autopilot Billing will be based on 'actions,' whatever those are, leaving enterprises to wonder how fast the meter might run
AI + ML Dissatisfied: Three-fourths of AI customer service rollouts are a letdown AI rollback rates hit 81% at firms with mature guardrails, suggesting enterprises are struggling to manage the systems in production, says Sinch
Virtualization Quit VMware and you’ll emerge with more complex and less capable infrastructure Analyst says modernizing applications is probably a better use of your time than hypervisor migration
Off-Prem Sovereign cloud is only possible if you’re Chinese or American: Gartner Which is awkward for European orgs who fear US clouds might leave the continent
AI AI layoffs backfire as cutting staff doesn't cut it, firms warned Replacing meatbags with failure prone agents isn't the gold mine some CEOs hoped for
On-Prem Moving to mainframe can be cheaper than sticking with VMware: Gartner Serious Linux VMs will enjoy big iron – if you can learn to love lock-in risks and skills challenges
Systems AI-powered mainframe exits are a bubble set to pop Analysts reckon 70 percent of projects will fail, and 75 percent of vendors in the field will go away
AI + ML How Gartner will help accelerate and scale your AI strategy Feeling stuck with your AI initiatives? Gartner has the answer
AI + ML Only 28% of AI infrastructure projects fully pay off, survey finds ITSM the area most likely to offer wins, according to Gartner research
Security Gartner suggests Friday afternoon Copilot ban because tired users may be too lazy to check its mistakes Admins may be even more exhausted by then, because securing Microsoft’s AI helper is not a trivial job
AI + ML HR may have to cajole and soothe reluctant employees to get them to use AI Employees need guidance and support if companies really want to commit to AI adoption
Off-Prem Orbital datacenters are a pie-in-the-sky idea: Gartner Analyst firm bemoans ‘peak insanity’ among those who think circling servers can replace down-to-earth clouds
AI + ML How Gartner will help accelerate and scale your AI strategy Feeling stuck with your AI initiatives? Gartner has the answer
AI + ML Misconfigured AI could trigger the next national infrastructure meltdown Rapid rollout into cyber-physical systems raises outage risk, Gartner warns
On-Prem Want digital sovereignty? That'll be 1% of your GDP into AI infrastructure please Analyst predicts massive spend on domestic AI stacks
AI + ML Salesforce opts for seat-based AI licensing as customers demand predictability Analysts say the shift is part of a trend which offers stability, but embedded usage caps ensure some vendors keep control
AI + ML Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future: Gartner Analysts worry lazy users could have agents complete mandatory infosec training, and attackers could do far nastier things
The Future of the Datacenter Datacenters that don't have their own power supplies will fail It's time to ask your bit barn provider how they'll keep the lights on, and what their plans mean for prices
AI + ML John Henry still leading the race vs AI in customer service Gartner found only 20% of customer service leaders have cut human agents because of AI
Virtualization Server virtualization market heats up as VMware rivals try to create alluring alternatives It’s time to think about a replacement, says Gartner
On-Prem Europe's IT spend to surge 11% as cloud sovereignty fever takes hold AI, cybersecurity, and geopolitical jitters forecast to push market to $1.4T next year
Databases ERP carnage continues as orgs jump in unprepared Lack of executive backing, unrealistic plans, and muddled goals remain recipe for failure
AI + ML How to bluff your way to AI credibility with the right buzzwords As Gartner offers another serving of word salad, it’s time to know your skillatrophy from your pipeline choke
AI + ML Gartner warns agentic AI startups: Prepare to be consolidated Analyst predicts over-supply will trigger a market correction in favor of deep-pocketed incumbents
AI + ML AI agent hypefest crashing up against cautious leaders, Gartner finds Only 15% considering deployments and just 7% say it'll replace humans in next four years
Research Nearly half of businesses suffered deepfaked phone calls against staff AI attacks on the rise
SaaS SaaS vendors are hiking costs faster than inflation, but squeaky wheels can still get deals And also force them to improve resilience
AI + ML AI in your toaster: Analyst predicts $1.5T global spend in 2025 And we're paying for it piecemeal through the software, services, and devices we buy
AI + ML AI pricing is currently in a state of ‘pandemonium’ says Gartner If you can find the T&Cs, which are often hidden, you may spot hidden costs and nasties galore
Personal Tech Everyone needs an AI phone. No, don't hang up, it's true Analyst bets smart money on 'proactive digital companion' upgrade cycle
AI + ML Use it or lose it: AI may cause you to forget some skills Prepare to take tests in stuff you already know how to do, just to keep you sharp
AI + ML All IT work to involve AI by 2030, says Gartner, but jobs are safe Analyst firm doesn’t rate OpenAI as an enterprise-ready vendor
Virtualization Desktop-as-a-service now often cheaper to run than laptops - even after thin client costs Human usage set to double, AI agents might need them too
On-Prem CIOs pause net-new IT investments as global tariff jitters bite Uncertainty to blame as businesses wait to see what US Prez Trump does next
AI + ML ‘AI is not doing its job and should leave us alone’ says Gartner’s top analyst As for agentic AI, don’t get him started about the enormous challenge of making it work vendors just won't discuss
AI + ML Half of businesses rethink ditching humans for customer service bots Agentless contact center 'not yet technically feasible, nor operationally desirable'
Patches Go ahead and ignore Patch Tuesday – it might improve your security No rush, according to Gartner chap who says: 'Nobody has ever out-patched threat actors at scale'
Databases Data is very valuable, just don't ask us to measure it, leaders say After fifteen years of big hype, less than 25% of orgs measure value of data, analytics
Systems Intel knocked off global chip revenue top spot after rotten 2024 Missed the AI processor boat, split with CEO savior, lost #1 seat to Samsung
Virtualization Fear of the unknown keeps Broadcom's VMware herd captive. Don't be cowed Prisoners of ware can’t escape by looking at each other. Form a committee, soldiers
Personal Tech Tariff uncertainty looms large over budget conscious CIOs It’s a feature not a bug, and what the US electorate voted for, says analyst
AI + ML Thousands of AI agents later, who even remembers what they do? Gartner weighs the pros and cons of the latest enterprise hotness
On-Prem AI's power trip will leave energy grids begging for mercy by 2027 Datacenter demand estimated to inflate by 160% over next two years
AI + ML Killer app for AI is still years away, says industry analyst IT spend set to rise nonetheless and it's not all about wundertech
Virtualization Veeam tests support for another VMware alternative: XCP-NG As Gartner rates the contenders for those contemplating a move off Virtzilla, with Nutanix on top of the list
Personal Tech Analysts predict 85 million EVs on roads by 2025 despite industry speed bumps China will lead the way with North America trailing
Personal Tech PC shipments stuck in neutral despite AI buzz Analysts can't agree whether market is marginally up or down
AI + ML We're in the brute force phase of AI – once it ends, demand for GPUs will too Gartner thinks generative AI is right for only five percent of workloads
AI + ML AI bills can blow out by 1000 percent: Gartner Preventing that is doable, but managing what happens when AI upsets people is hard
AI + ML Amazon congratulates itself for AI code that mostly works Web services souk celebrates 'leader' designation for Q Developer
AI + ML AGI is on clients' radar but far from reality, says Gartner Controversial concept may not even be a useful goal in computing
CxO How deliciously binary: AI has yet to pay off – or is transforming business Calculating ROI of neural networks turns out to be rather complicated
AI + ML Gartner nudges down global IT spending growth forecast as 'change fatigue' persists Meanwhile, software vendors are left paying the GenAI 'tax' as users yet to see value
VMware Explore VMware license changes mean bare metal can make a comeback through 'devirtualization', says Gartner Latest datacenter Hype Cycle also includes augmented reality, new types of memory, nuke power
AI + ML AI-assisted automation for clouds and networks climbs Gartner's hype cycles Yes, AI will volunteer to run your IT estate. You might be a fool to trust it
AI + ML AI chip sales predicted to jump by a third this year – then cool off Gartner gives us a ray of hope amid ongoing hype and pressure to buy more hardware
Networks Global IT spending forecast to reach $5.0T this year Comms services and AI contributing to increase, but vendors are taking 'risks'
Devops 75% of enterprise coders will use AI helpers by 2028. We didn't say productively Dev teams must beware inflated expectations of tech leadership, Gartner warns
Networks Ethernet advances will end Nvidia's InfiniBand lead in AI networks Desire to build brainboxes will also see optical interconnects go mainstream
Security Infosec teams must be allowed to fail, argues Gartner But failing to recover from incidents is unforgivable because 'adrenalin does not scale'
AI + ML Governments not keen on pushing citizen-facing AI services, for obvious reasons As soon as public sector implements GenAI, someone will do their best to break it... or even flirt with it
Personal Tech AI PC hype bubble swells, but software support lags marketing Resistance is futile, upgrades are inevitable and so is hardware margin inflation
CSO Rise of deepfake threats means biometric security measures won't be enough Defenses need a rethink in face of increasing sophistication
AI + ML AI investment still at the planning stage through 2024, Gartner says Imagined impact of GenAI on GDP is over-optimistic, analyst firm says
Systems Now is a good time to buy memory because prices rise next year, Gartner predicts To blame? The usual suspect – AI's appetite for chips
CxO Digital democracy or IT anarchy? Gartner flags the low-code revolution Without strong governance, incoming tools will wreak havoc for CIOs
Applications Buyer's remorse haunts 3 in 5 business software purchases They never do tell you about the unexpected costs and overly complex implementations
Off-Prem 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
AI + ML 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 + ML 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
Personal Tech Power grids tremble as electric vehicle growth set to accelerate 19% next year Gas-guzzling US favors hybrids while Europe prefers battery power
PaaS + IaaS Gartner says hold onto your wallets as SAP's cloud pitch trades control for convenience Analyst firm warns that users need to understand what it is they're buying
On-Prem Quarter of tech pros say they're considering quitting jobs in next six months Bouyant jobs market and increased stress prompt exodus, says research
Sysadmin Month 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
Software Metaverses are flopping – hard – says Gartner Clunky, costly, literally sickening data silos just aren't better than the real world
Databases Before you sprinkle AI on all your analytics, check data quality Gartner asks for some fundamentals in a slew of AI-in-analytics announcements
Off-Prem 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-Prem 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
Systems 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
Energy Efficient Datacenters Cloud can reduce greenhouse emissions, but don't assume it's automatic Organizations can't outsource environmental challenges, warns Gartner
On-Prem 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-Prem Bosses failing to offer hybrid work lose out in recruitment Gartner finds pandemic-related trend is becoming the norm
Personal Tech 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
On-Prem Enterprise IT giant layoffs happened because 'some CEOs got ahead of their skis' Spending still rosy despite job loss clouds, market seers say
Systems 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
Software Like nuclear fusion, funding of IT on the basis of revenue generation is just around the corner, Gartner says
Applications 'Automate or die!' Gartner reckons most biz apps will be developed via low-code by the people who use them
PaaS + IaaS Customers warn Gartner of AWS's high-pressure sales tactics in latest verdict on public cloud providers
Networks IPv6 still 5-10 years away from mainstream use, but K8s networking and multi-cloud are now real
On-Prem If you said the semiconductor shortage will last until Q2 2022, you would be correct, according to Gartner
Off-Prem Words to strike fear into admins' hearts: One in five workers consider themselves 'digital experts' these days
Personal Tech How big might IT spending get in 2021? Gartner: How about $4 trillion. And no, you can't have a new MacBook
Personal Tech Sweet! Your boss is going to get you a plush new headset, says Gartner as wearable spending to soar almost 20%
On-Prem Oh! What a lovely lockdown: Lenovo enjoys soaraway sales for Q3 2020 as PC shipments jump – Dell, not so much
SaaS Gartner on cloud contenders: AWS fails to lower its prices, Microsoft 'cannot guarantee capacity', Google has 'devastating' network outages
Software No, Kubernetes doesn’t make applications portable, say analysts. Good luck avoiding lock-in, too
Science Not now, Gartner. We've had enough of the future to last a lifetime: Meet 'Formative AI' and 'Algorithmic Trust'
Networks Spending on 5G to double despite the pandemic while legacy network infrastructure sector suffers – Gartner
On-Prem WTF is cloud-tethered compute? We're not sure either, but it just made a hype cycle for the first time
On-Prem Reporting live from Gartner pandemic watch: IT spending is shrinking by X this year, I mean Y
Personal Tech Consumer hardware shipments forecast to drop 14% for 2020, but hey, it could be worse, says Gartner
On-Prem DRAM, son. Semiconductor revenue fell 12% last year. At least 2020 will be better, right? Right?
On-Prem Poor semiconductor revenues can't catch a break: Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the wafer – bam, coronavirus
Personal Tech Looks like the party's over, folks: Global PC sales set to shrink as Windows 10 upgrade cycle tails off, says Gartner
Science 'Earworn Wearables' will save the day (wireless earbuds, but cool name for your D&D halfling)
Personal Tech As sales crash, Gartner wonders who can rescue the smartphone market ... Aha, it is I! 5G Man!
Personal Tech Huawei smartphone sales up but only thanks to China as US trade ban gives punters the jitters
Networks Gartner awakens from trance, tells huddled villagers: 5G revenue will almost double to $4.2bn next year!
Personal Tech And we're back live with the state of the smartphone market in 2019. Any hope? Yeah, nah
Personal Tech 2019 set to be the worst year yet for smartphone market as lack of worthy upgrades dents demand
On-Prem Gartner: Global trade and politics sure look interesting. Yep. Oh, BTW, world+dog will still spend more on IT in 2019
Personal Tech Gartner: Not a very merry Christmas for PC market as chip shortage bites, small biz vanishes
Storage So you want to archive our enterprise data? Well, let's see where you fall on Gartner's magic square...
Storage This is a leader's square for storage leaders, IBM, Dell EMC and Scality tell wide-eyed Qumulo
