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Thursday, November 6th, 2008 - 8:41 am EST

Gartner’s Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2009

Posted by: Brian Mullins

A couple of weeks ago Gartner released their “Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2009.” Each technology is defined as, “one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years.” The technologies listed have been available for quite some time – many of which were present on last year’s list – but one that continues to move up in rank is virtualization.

Considering the state of the economy, we anticipate this to be an area that will continue to flourish over the next 12-24 months as virtualization technology becomes feasible for businesses of all sizes. We’ve discussed the economical (and environmental) benefits of virtualization in recent posts found here and here.

So what do you think? Do you agree that virtualization is the #1 strategic technology for 2009?

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Monday, October 15th, 2007 - 8:36 am EDT

Gartner’s Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2008

Posted by: admin

Last week Gartner Inc. came out with its list of strategic technologies for 2008. Topping the list is “Green IT” which according to Gartner is going to become a major factor in data center management. In addition, “Virtualization” is also a technology anticipated to generate some buzz in 2008 which is neither surprising nor new to us. The following technologies round off the rest of the list:

#2 – Unified communications
#3 – Business process management
#4 – Metadata management
#5 – Virtualization
#6 – Mashups
#7 – The Web platform
#8 – Computing fabric
#9 – Real World Web
#10 – Social software

For the complete list and descriptions for each of the above technologies view the Computerworld article found here.

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