There's one word for 2016 that keeps popping up – tumultuous. Nothing seemed immune from change of some sort, be it business, the economy, politics and, yes, global IT spend. So as we put 2016 in our rear-view mirror, do the initial IT spend numbers for 2017 offer a calmer path? For that answer we called upon Gartner Chief Forecaster John Lovelock to get his take on the first-quarter data. What are the main headlines? What regions fared better than others? Why is there some reason for optimism? And will it last throughout the year and beyond?

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