Monday, December 6, 2010

Gartner’s Top Predictions, 2011

 Here the Gartner’s Top Predictions, 2011:
 By 2015, a G20 nation’s critical infrastructure will be disrupted and damaged by online sabotage.
 By 2015, new revenue generated each year by IT will determine the annual compensation of most new Global 2000 CIOs.
 By 2015, information-smart businesses will increase recognized IT spending per head by 60 percent.
 By 2015, tools and automation will eliminate 25 percent of labor hours associated with IT services.
 By 2015, most external assessments of enterprise value and viability will include explicit analysis of IT assets and capabilities.
 By 2015, 80% of enterprises using external cloud services will demand independent certification that providers can restore operations and data
 By 2015, companies will generate 50% of Web sales via their social presence and mobile applications
 By 2015, 20 percent of non-IT Global 500 companies will be cloud service providers.
 By 2014, 90 percent of organizations will support corporate applications on personal devices.
 By 2013, 80 percent of businesses will support a workforce using tablets.
 By 2015, 10 percent of your online “friends” will be nonhuman.
The full presentation can be found at: http://www.brighttalk.com/custom/gartner/channels/channel2

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Friday, April 16, 2010

What is the next hype?


The next hype. What was yesterday? What is going on now? what will be tomorrow? Questions that occupy leaders all around in order to make sure they are riding on the right wave. It is not easy while is  very important trying to be with the right thing in the right place on the right time.

Gartner is trying to help us by giving us the hype cycle and you can see here for example the 2009 Gartner's prediction about the best next thing:
















The above picture describes the 2009 hype cycle. you notice right away that the top areas that rule the top are "Cloud Computing" and "eBook Readers". interesting enough you see that in 2009 the areas are buzzing all over the net.
the following diagram shows the break down of different cloud computing areas:
















in the next blog i will dive into several of the main areas in cloud computing.


now trying to post using Blogger, looks cool so far, much better than the microsoft live spaces blog.