The 8 million small and medium-sized businesses across the United States will continue to increase IT spending this year, with a particular focus on software and personal computers, according to Framingham-based International Data Corp.
The so-called “SMB” segment in the country is expected to spend more than $138 billion on IT in 2012, representing about one-quarter of global SMB spending.
IDC forecasts that small businesses will have a particular interest in notebooks and media tablets and will spend nearly twice as much as the midsize segment on those items.
The SMB segment is expected to spend nearly $50 billion on packaged software this year, accounting for more than one-third of the segment’s total forecasted spending.
IT services will net $38 billion from the segment. IDC expects system storage to continue to be the slowest-growing IT category.
