10 Strategic Technologies for 2008

They have the potential to disrupt IT or your business; they require a major dollar investment and you dont want to be a late adopter. These 10 technologies are the most likely to have a significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years, accor

The focus of Green IT that came to the forefront this year will accelerate and expand in 2008. Consider potential regulations and have alternative plans for data center and capacity growth. Regulations are multiplying and have the potential to

Today, 20 percent of the installed base with PBX has migrated to IP telephony, but more than 80 percent are already doing trials of some form. Gartner expects the next three years to be the point at which the majority of companies implement thi

Top-level process services must be defined jointly by a set of roles (which include enterprise architecture, senior developers, process architects and/or process analysts). Some of those roles sit in a SOA (service-oriented architecture) center of excelle

Through 2010, organizations implementing both customer data integration and product integration and product information management will link these master data management initiatives as part of an overall EIM (enterprise information management) strategy. M

Virtualization technologies can improve IT resource utilization and increase flexibility. However, by themselves, virtualization technologies are simply infrastructure improvement enablers. With the addition of automation technologies—with service-le

By 2010, Web mashups will be the dominant model (80 percent) for the creation of composite enterprise applications. Mashup technologies will evolve significantly over the next five years, and application leaders must take this evolution into account when

SAAS (software as a service) is becoming a viable option in more markets and companies must evaluate where service-based delivery may provide value in 2008-2010. Meanwhile, Web platforms are emerging that provide service-based access to infrastructure ser

A computing fabric is the evolution of server design beyond the interim stage—blade servers—that exist today. The next step in this progression is the introduction of technology to allow several blades to be merged operationally over the fabric,

The term real world Web is informal, referring to places where information from the Web is applied to the particular location, activity or context in the real world. It is intended to augment the reality that a user faces, not to replace it,

Through 2010 the enterprise Web 2.0 product environment will experience considerable flux with continued product innovation and new entrants, including startups, large vendors and traditional collaboration vendors. Expect significant consolidat

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