Gartner identifies top 10 strategic technologies for 2009
Research firm Gartner has released its latest annual list of the top 10 technologies and trends that will be strategic for most organisations. Gartner defines a strategic technology as one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years...
The top 10 strategic technologies for 2009 are:
1. Virtualisation – Much of the current buzz is focused on server virtualisation, but virtualisation in storage and client devices is also moving rapidly.
2. Cloud Computing – includes delivery of capabilities "as a service," delivery of services in a highly scalable and elastic fashion, using internet technologies and techniques to develop and deliver the services, and designing for delivery to external customers.
3. Servers (Beyond Blades) – Servers are evolving beyond the blade server stage that exists today. This evolution will simplify the provisioning of capacity to meet growing needs.
4. Web-Oriented Architectures – The Internet is arguably the best example of an agile, interoperable and scalable service-oriented environment in existence.
5. Enterprise Mash-ups – Enterprises are now investigating taking mash-ups from cool web hobby to enterprise-class systems to augment their models for delivering and managing applications.
6. Specialised Systems – Heterogeneous systems are an emerging trend in high-performance computing to address the requirements of the most demanding workloads, and this approach will eventually reach the general-purpose computing market.
7. Social Software/Networking – Social software includes a broad range of technologies, such as social networking, social collaboration, social media and social validation.
8. Unified Communications – During the next five years, the number of different communications vendors with which a typical organisation works with will be reduced by at least 50 percent.
9. Business Intelligence –BI, the top technology priority in Gartner's 2008 CIO survey, can have a direct positive impact on a company's business performance, dramatically improving its ability to accomplish its mission by making smarter decisions at every level of the business.
10. Green IT – Shifting to more efficient products and approaches can allow for more equipment to fit within an energy footprint, or to fit into a previously filled centre.
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