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• Overall worldwide IT budgets are increasing by 4.1%; APAC and EMEA have the strongest budget growth, while North America and Europe have the weakest growth plans
• UK and France have the highest propensity to cut hardware expenditures in 2016 to offset budget constraints, while in Italy budget increasers are least likely to cite hardware as a target for budget increases
• Software expenditure growth is strong, with more organisations applying new budget to software than to cloud computing; hardware is the primary target for budget cuts