 | |  | | Doug Henschen | | | | | IT managers are already struggling to manage data within the constraints of their current budgets and staffing levels. What will they do when marketing and various business units demand big data insights?
According to a Gartner study published last week, IT professionals will spend nearly half of all IT resources during the next few years in an effort to adapt large, complex IT infrastructures to the demands of big data projects. The result, according to the study titled "Big Data Drives Rapid Changes in Infrastructure," is a misleadingly small market for big data projects. Those projects will account for only about $4.3 billion worth of corporate IT spending worldwide in 2012, according to Gartner.
Instead of spending directly on big data projects, IT will be preoccupied beefing up their storage, databases, servers, and other IT resources to handle huge databases--upgrades that will drive $28 billion in IT spending worldwide during 2012, and $34 billion in 2013, Gartner predicts.
Is it a case of spending on plumbing rather than value-driving projects?
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