| Ten Technologies for 2010 | | | | platforms are emerging which provide |
| The following top 10 technologies and trends that | | | | service-based access to infrastructure services, |
| will be strategic for mostorganizations in 2009. | | | | information, applications, and business processes |
| 1. Green IT | | | | through Web based "cloud computing" |
| The focus of Green IT that came to the | | | | environments. |
| forefront in 2009 will accelerate andexpand in | | | | 8. Computing Fabric |
| 2008. Consider potential regulations and have | | | | A computing fabric is the evolution of server |
| alternative plansfor data center and capacity | | | | design beyond the interimstage, blade servers, |
| growth. Regulations are multiplying and havethe | | | | that exists today. The next step in this |
| potential to seriously constrain companies in | | | | progressionis the introduction of technology to |
| building data centers, asthe impact on power | | | | allow several blades to be mergedoperationally |
| grids, carbon emissions from increased use and | | | | over the fabric, operating as a larger single |
| otherenvironmental impacts are under scrutiny. | | | | system imagethat is the sum of the components |
| Some companies are emphasizing their social | | | | from those blades. The fabric-based server of |
| responsibility behavior, whichmight result in vendor | | | | the future will treat memory, processors, and I/O |
| preferences and policies that affect IT decisions. | | | | cards as components in a pool, combining and |
| Scheduling decisions for workloads on servers will | | | | recombining them into particular arrangements to |
| begin to consider powerefficiency as a key | | | | suits the owner's needs. For example a large |
| placement attribute | | | | server can be created by combining 32 |
| 2. Unified Communications | | | | processors and a number of memory modules |
| Today, 20 per cent of the installed base with PBX | | | | from the pool, operating together over the fabric |
| has migrated to IPtelephony, but more than 80 | | | | to appear to an operating system as a single |
| per cent are already doing trials of some form. | | | | fixed server. |
| Gartner analysts expect the next three years to | | | | 9. Real World Web |
| be the point at which themajority of companies | | | | The term "real world Web" is informal, referring |
| implement this, the first major change in | | | | to places where informationfrom the Web is |
| voicecommunications since the digital PBX and | | | | applied to the particular location, activity or |
| cellular phone changes in the 1970s and 1980s. | | | | context inthe real world. It is intended to augment |
| 3. Business Process Modeling | | | | the reality that a user faces, notto replace it as in |
| Top-level process services must be defined jointly | | | | virtual worlds. |
| by a set of roles (whichinclude enterprise | | | | It is used in real-time based on the real world |
| architects, senior developers, process architects | | | | situation, not prepared inadvance for consumption |
| and/orprocess analysts). Some of those roles sit | | | | at specific times or researched after the |
| in a service orientedarchitecture center of | | | | eventshave occurred. For example in navigation, a |
| excellence, some in a process center of | | | | printed list of directions fromthe Web do not |
| excellenceand some in both. | | | | react to changes, but a GPS navigation unit |
| 4. Metadata Management | | | | providesreal-time directions that react to events |
| Through 2010, organisations implementing both | | | | and movements; the latter case isakin to the |
| customer data and productintegration and product | | | | real-world Web of augmented reality. Now is the |
| information management will link these master | | | | time to seek out new applications, new revenue |
| datamanagement initiatives as part of an overall | | | | streams and improvements to business process |
| enterprise informationmanagement (EIM) strategy. | | | | that can come from augmenting the world at the |
| Metadata management is a critical part of a | | | | right time, place orsituation. |
| company's informationinfrastructure. It enables | | | | 10. Social Software |
| optimization, abstraction and semanticreconciliation | | | | Through 2010, the enterprise Web 2.0 product |
| of metadata to support reuse, consistency, | | | | environment will experienceconsiderable flux with |
| integrity andshareability. | | | | continued product innovation and new |
| 5. Virtualisation 2.0 | | | | entrants,including start-ups, large vendors and |
| Virtualisation technologies can improve IT | | | | traditional collaboration vendors. |
| resource utilisation and increasethe flexibility | | | | Expect significant consolidation as competitors |
| needed to adapt to changing requirements and | | | | strive to deliver robust Web |
| workloads. | | | | 2.0 offerings to the enterprise. Nevertheless social |
| However, by themselves, virtualisation | | | | software technologieswill increasingly be brought |
| technologies are simply enablers thathelp broader | | | | into the enterprise to augment |
| improvements in infrastructure cost reduction, | | | | traditionalcollaboration. |
| flexibility andresiliency. | | | | Primetech Software |
| 6. Mashup & Composite Apps | | | | Software & Web Development Company |
| By 2010, Web mashups will be the dominant | | | | _____ |
| model (80 per cent) for thecreation of composite | | | | Quotes of the Month |
| enterprise applications. Mashup technologies | | | | In keeping with this month's topic, here are some |
| willevolve significantly over the next five years, | | | | appropriate quotations. |
| and application leaders musttake this evolution into | | | | "Management is doing things right; leadership is |
| account when evaluating the impact of mashups | | | | doing the right things." - |
| andin formulating an enterprise mashup strategy. | | | | Peter Drucker |
| 7. Web Platform & WOA | | | | "Leadership is communicating to people their |
| Software as a service (SaaS) is becoming a viable | | | | worth and potential so clearlythat they come to |
| option in more markets and companies must | | | | see it in themselves." - Stephen R. Covey |
| evaluate where service based delivery may | | | | "Those who speak most of progress measure it |
| provide value in 2008-2010. Meanwhile Web | | | | by quantity and not byquality. |