Gartner IT Trends: Social Media, Mobile and Cloud Computing
20 percent of businesses will own no IT assets by 2012, according to a recent Gartner press release on technology trends. The release cites the movement toward decreased IT hardware assets as a result of increased virtualization, cloud-enabled services, and employees running personal desktops and notebook systems on corporate networks. As a result, Gartner foresees that enterprise IT budgets will either “be shrunk or reallocated to more-strategic projects; enterprise IT staff will either be reduced or reskilled to meet new requirements, and/or hardware distribution will have to change radically to meet the requirements of the new IT hardware buying points”.
Other predictions in the report:
- Facebook will become the hub for social network integration and Web socialization.
“Other social networks (including Twitter) will continue to develop, seeking further adoption and specializations with communication or content areas, but Facebook will represent a common denominator for all of them.”
- By 2014, the global mobile penetration rate will be 90%, and context will drive mobile consumer services.
“Whereas search provides the “key” to organizing information and services for the Web, context will provide the “key” to delivering hyperpersonalized experiences across smartphones and any session or experience an end user has with information technology . . . . Context will center on observing patterns, particularly location, presence and social interactions.”
- By 2013, mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access device worldwide.
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1278413
