Gartner has tweaked its IT spending predictions for 2017, and now says the three percent increase in spending is not exactly realistic. It's going to be less -- 2.7 percent to be exact, which is still a positive prognosis, keeping in mind we're talking about growth. The reduced spending is mostly to blame on the "wait-and-see" approach many companies are taking, caused by political and economic uncertainty. In total, Gartner believes $3.5 trillion will be spent on IT technology this year, mostly on new technologies like cloud or AI. Software will be dominating the spending, while hardware will "remain flat".… [Continue Reading]