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Overall worldwide IT spending is expected to decline by 3.8 percent in 2009, but certain parts of the market such as cloud services could see explosive growth, according to reports from IT analyst firm Gartner.

Gartner, Stamford, Conn., this week said total worldwide IT spending would reach $3.2 trillion, down about 3.8 percent from the $3.4 trillion spent in 2008.

We’ll see, I think there are still great opportunities for hardware sales, yes the desktop is getting more powerful, yes there is virtualization, but for those businesses where I have one desktop doing everything and a network of three or four pc’s, a server might just be the next step, possibly four or five steps before virtualization.

Let us do everything we can to on board the SME market, financially, operationally and technically, by embracing the SME, education and non-profit organizations we can bring real opportunities from empowerment from the new servers we see on the market place, when combined with the right range of software and solutions that’s right for their business.

We often focus on the enterprise market, on the developed economy when it comes to server sales, but I can’t help but feel that it’s new markets like China, Brazil or other developing economies where we’re onboarding new users to mobile phones, to Internet, new meda, all of which need servers and infrastructure, all of which can’t necessarily afford to directly switch to a virtual infrastructure, where to put it simply a DL360 will do. These are the next generation customers, onboard them, embrace them and from there everything else will follow.

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