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With half the year gone, Gartner just revised its 2017 worldwide IT spending projection up 1 percent to 2.4 percent. That may not sound like a lot, but last year’s IT spending growth was effectively flat at 0.3 percent. It isn’t just the uptick in the overall spending level that’s interesting, it’s how Gartner predicts the money is being spent. It sees the move to digital business and the related adoption of new technologies such as internet of things (IoT), blockchain and smart machines as a growth engine that’s creating new potential reasons for spending.