Automotive IT News and Facts
Global IT spending is set to rise 3 pc in 2012 to 3.6 trillion dlrs, with investments in cloud-based services posting particularly strong growth, according to a Gartner forecast. The market researchers said the increase is slightly higher than the 2.5 pc growth they forecast earlier this year. Gartner said the overall outlook for IT [...]
Germans aren’t ready to buy battery-powered electric vehicles yet, according to a recent Gartner study. The market researchers said a study conducted in Europe’s biggest car market in the first half of 2011 showed that a majority of consumers prefer gasoline-powered vehicles for their next purchase. Hybrid vehicles came second, while diesel-powered cars ranked third. [...]
Experts say managed security is a major growth area for Cloud-based services. “We estimate that through 2015 half of all e-mail security products will be used in SaaS form,” said Ruggero Contu, principal research analyst at market researchers Gartner. For small and medium-sized companies, with limited IT staff, Security as a Service may be particularly [...]
Gartner analyst Thilo Koslowski said Wednesday that access to data will become a must-have feature for car owners in the next six years. In the premium segment it will be a requirement even sooner, he said. “Consumers will want access to in-vehicle data by 2016,” Koslowski told the Telematics Update conference in Munich. “Premium vehicle [...]
