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ORLDWIDE IT SPENDING is projected to total US $ 4.5 trillion in 2022 , an increase of 5.1 % from 2021 , according to the latest forecast by Gartner , Inc .
Despite the potential impacts of the Omicron variant , economic recovery with high expectations for digital market prosperity will continue to boost technology investments .
“ 2022 is the year that the future returns for the CIO ,” said John-David Lovelock , Research Vice President at Gartner . “ They are now in a position to move beyond the critical , short-term projects over the past two years and focus on the long-term . Simultaneously , staff skills gaps , wage inflation and the war for talent will push CIOs to rely more on consultancies and managed service firms to pursue their digital strategies .”
We hear from three industry experts who provide further insight into how digitalisation goals can be achieved in 2022 . . . .
DON BOXLEY , CEO AND CO-FOUNDER , DH2I
In 2022 , SMEs can best achieve their Digital Transformation goals by leveraging Kubernetes and software-defined perimeter ( SDP ) enhanced stateful containers to make multi-cloud their architectural standard for deploying containers .
Why ? SMEs get the vision of multi-cloud – the ability to use workloads across different clouds based on the type of cloud that best fits the workload . But this vision has typically depended on a VPN to connect multiple cloud
Don Boxley , CEO and Co-founder , DH2i
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