<p style="text-align:start;" size="0" _root="undefined" __ownerid="undefined" __hash="undefined" __altered="false"><span style="color:#000000">A new forecast from research firm Gartner based on its analysis of sales by technology suppliers predicts that global tech spending will hit $4.2 trillion by the end of 2021, an annual increase of almost 9%.</span></p>
