Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2010

Monday, 26 October 2009 14:36

Research firm Gartner, recently released a report listing the "Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2010" as part of its well known Gartner Symposium which concluded recently at Florida. At the cost of sounding immodest, even without the elaborate information, methodology and experience that Gartner analysts have, I could have gotten many of the candidates in the list on the basis of gut feel. And i think many of the readers would be able to as well. So the technologies are:-

Cloud Computing. SaaS services delivered through the web rather than residing on the servers of the company.
Advanced Analytics. Optimization and simulation using analytical tools and models to maximize business process.
Client Computing. Virtualization is bringing new ways of packaging client computing applications and capabilities. As a result, the choice of a particular PC hardware platform, and eventually the OS platform, becomes less critical. Enterprises should proactively build a five to eight year strategic client computing roadmap outlining an approach to device standards, ownership and support; operating system and application selection, deployment and update; and management and security plans to manage diversity.
IT for Green. Environ friendly IT initiatives.
Reshaping the Data Center. A pod-based approach to data center construction and expansion.
Social Computing. Enterprises must focus both on use of social software and social media in the enterprise and participation and integration with externally facing enterprise-sponsored and public communities.
Security. Monitoring activities and identifying patterns rather than a "perimeter based" security strategy.
Flash Memory.
Virtualization for Availability. The movement of a running virtual machine (VM), while its operating system and other software continue to execute as if they remained on the original physical server.
Mobile Applications.