5 IT Trends For The Next 5 years
Posted by Len Diana on Tue, Oct 04, 2011 @ 11:24 AM
The article "The Big Five IT trends of the next half decade: mobile, social, cloud, consumerization, and big data". I came across this article and thought it was fantastic. I’d encourage you to read it.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hinchcliffe/the-big-five-it-trends-of-the-next-half-decade-mobile-social-cloud-consumerization-and-big-data/1811
The author talks about the big trends that IT faces over the next 5 years. Here are his top 5:
Mobile: smart devices and tablets—Using the sales projections from Gartner on tablets, by 2015 the tablet market will be 479 MILLION units shipped worldwide. Basically they’ll be on a parity with the PC market.
Social Media: social business & Enterprise 2.0—Email was a workhorse but it’s been overtaken by social media and companies need to adopt this new medium. Revenue growth is 24% higher for social savvy firms versus their less social competitors according to a report from McKinsey & Co.
Cloud Computing—our blog has talked about cloud computing over the last several months and there’s no doubt as to its relevance to business. “Business agility, vendor choice, and access to next-generation architectures are all benefits of employing the latest cloud computing architectures..”
Consumerization of IT—“the source of innovation for technology is coming largely from the consumer world…” Think of third party apps that workers are using that are safe and secure for work. Now adoption and usage are dictated from the user instead of from management.
Big data—Storage is the big word in IT now since many businesses are drowning in data.
I’ve briefly summarized his key points. Here’s a great ending quote from the article: “…IT must either start leading the business models and evolution of the organization, or become a commoditized utility while the business figures out the moves on their own.” Where does your business fit in?
