Monday Morning Impact – April 14
Gartner: Worldwide GenAI Spending to Reach $644 Billion in 2025
Worldwide generative AI (GenAI) spending is expected to total $644 billion in 2025, an increase of 76.4% from 2024, according to a forecast by Gartner, Inc.
“Expectations for GenAI’s capabilities are declining due to high failure rates in initial proof-of-concept (POC) work and dissatisfaction with current GenAI results,” said John-David Lovelock, Distinguished VP Analyst at Gartner. “Despite this, foundational model providers are investing billions annually to enhance GenAI models’ size, performance, and reliability. This paradox will persist through 2025 and 2026.
“Ambitious internal projects from 2024 will face scrutiny in 2025, as CIOs opt for commercial off-the-shelf solutions for more predictable implementation and business value, Lovelock added. “Despite model improvements, CIOs will reduce POC and self-development efforts, focusing instead on GenAI features from existing software providers.”
GenAI spending is poised for significant growth across all core markets and submarkets in 2025. Gartner says this trend is driven largely by the integration of AI capabilities into hardware, such as servers, smartphones and PCs, with 80% of GenAI spending going towards hardware.
“The market’s growth trajectory is heavily influenced by the increasing prevalence of AI-enabled devices, which are expected to comprise almost the entire consumer device market by 2028,” said Lovelock. “However, consumers are not chasing these features. As the manufacturers embed AI as a standard feature in consumer devices, consumers will be forced to purchase them.”
Gartner’s GenAI spending forecast methodology relies heavily on analysis of sales by over a thousand vendors across the entire range of GenAI products and services. The most recent GenAI spending forecast research is available to Gartner clients in “Forecast Alert: GenAI IT Spending, 2023-2028, Worldwide.”
Channel Impact®
GenAI will have a transformative impact across all aspects of IT spending markets, suggesting a future where AI technologies become increasingly integral to business operations and consumer products, as served by the channel.
Ingram Micro Rolls Out New Tool to Simplify Software Integrations
Ingram Micro has rolled out a new platform intended to simplify technology integrations. Marketed as the “Xvantage Integrations Hub,” the AI-powered system is designed to deliver “a frictionless experience, dramatically simplifying software integrations by enabling instant access to prebuilt applications and more secure modern workflows.”
The platform leverages AI models to integrate with existing SaaS Platforms—including CRM, ERP, RMM, and CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote) – to accelerate time-to-value by reducing custom software development and reducing manual workloads.
“Platform integrations are the connective tissue of the AI-enabled future of the technology ecosystem,” said Ambrish Verma, Chief Product Officer, Ingram Micro. “With the Xvantage Integrations Hub, we are moving towards a platform-driven experience led by an AI-enabled team focused on achieving greater collaboration, productivity, and efficiency.”
Dozens of integrations are expected to go live throughout this year.
Channel Impact®
Using AI to simplify integrating SaaS tools and platform technology into Xvantage, Ingram Micro is hoping to drive faster decision-making and revenues by condensing integrations that otherwise could have taken months to develop.
Stellar Cyber Unveils the Open Cybersecurity Alliance
Stellar Cyber has launched its Open Cybersecurity Alliance based on the San Jose-based cybersecurity company’s Open XDR platform. The intent is to streamline security operations, improve interoperability, and enhance threat detection and response for enterprises and MSSPs using open application programming interfaces (APIs) between Stellar Cyber’s AI-powered open security operations platform and other enterprise technology solutions.
The newly launched ecosystem currently features integrations with various security platforms across many different categories, including endpoint detection and response (EDR), identity and access management (IAM), privileged access security (PAS), secure access service edge (SASE), next-generation firewall, email security, vulnerability management (VM), cloud security, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and software as a service (SAAS).
The program’s features and benefits include verified and documented alliance integrations complete with technical guidance, testing tools, and documentation; training and implementation support; and sales/marketing support.
“It takes a true multivendor effort to prevent threats from penetrating the defenses of organizations, as long as the tools aren’t siloed off and disconnected. We see a massive difference for organizations that embrace an openly integrated ecosystem to ensure all of their security platforms work in concert compared to those still managing each product independently, which usually slows down their teams and weakens their security posture,” said Andrew Homer, Vice President of Alliances at Stellar Cyber. “The Stellar Cyber Open Cybersecurity Alliance Program helps organizations add tremendous speed and scale to their security efforts, easily strengthening their defense against today’s latest threats.”
Current vendor participants include LastPass, Netskope, Check Point, Mimecast, ESET, Brite, and CyFlare. Stellar Cyber claims a customer base that includes almost one-third of the top 250 MSSPs and more than 12,000 customers worldwide.
Channel Impact®
The Stellar Cyber Open Cybersecurity Alliance Program is intended to create a dynamic, open ecosystem of cybersecurity solutions managed through Stellar Cyber’s security operations platform to enable higher speed, increased visibility, more accurate threat correlation, and better response times.
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