Thursday, October 25, 2012

Gartner: 10 Critical Tech Trends For The Next Five Years


At a Gartner Symposium IT Expo session this morning, analyst David Cappuccio laid out 10 “critical”  trends and technologies impacting IT for the next five years. (David Letterman apparently was not available; at least they found another Dave to do the honors.)
Before revealing the list, Cappucio provides a little context: In the last minute, there were 204 million emails sent, 61,000 hours of music listened to on Pandora, 20 million photo views and 3 million uploads to Flickr, 100,000 tweets, 6 million view and 277,000 Facebook logins and 2 million plus Googlesearches.
He repeats a theme that is going to come up a lot at this event: the “nexus” of cloud, big data, social and mobile.
  • Organizational entrenchment and disruption
  • Software-defined networks
  • Bigger data and storage
  • Hybrid cloud services
  • Client and server architectures
  • Internet of things
  • IT appliance madness
  • Operational complexity
  • Virtual data centers
  • IT demand

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