Gartner sees 9.1% growth in UAE IT spending

US-based information technology research and advisory firm, Gartner has said that IT spending in the UAE is expected to witness a 9.1% growth this year to $15.91bn compared to last year's $14.54bn as focus shifts to broader IT services, Gulf News has reported. "Consumer spending will be much stronger than enterprise spending this year. Overall enterprise spending will be around 25% of the total IT spending while the rest is for consumer spending," Vittorio D'Orazio, principal research analyst at Gartner, told the newspaper. D'Orazio has cited key growth area in the telecommunication sector, with 79% of the total IT spending to $12.53bn followed by hardware by 14% to $2.21bn, IT services by 6% to $1bn and software by around 1% to $147m.