What a Difference a Year Makes
Oh, what a difference a year makes--at least from the perspective of IT technologies that will dominate the landscape in 2011. Much has changed on that front since 2010, according to Gartner. Last year Gartner predicted that the top IT technologies would be:
Gartner in 2010 |
Changes for 2011 |
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1 | Cloud Computing | Cloud Computing |
2 | Advanced Analytics | Mobile Applications & Media Tablets |
3 | Client Computing | Next Generation Analytics |
4 | IT for Green | Social Analytics |
5 | Reshaping the Data Center | Social Communications & Collaboration |
6 | Social Computing | Video |
7 | Security | Context Aware Computing |
8 | Flash Memory | Ubiquitous Computing |
9 | Virtualization for Availability | Storage Class Memory |
10 | Mobile Applications | Fabric-Based Infrastructures & Computers (back from 2009) |
Cloud Computing remains number one on the top ten hit parade. The real question is whether
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