Top 10 Strategic technologies of 2008

-- Gartner Inc. research firm has recently released 2008’s TOP 10 strategic technology. A strategic technology is something that may have an impact on a business. And impact could mean driving an investment or posing a threat. It would mean if one of your competitors adopts it, it might make your company in soup or lands in a competitive advantage. Only market of 2008 decides this factor.





S.No
Technology
Market goyango.
Samples from leaders

1.
Green IT.
Yaaweh! That’s y people roam around carbon credit…
Look around all the releases of energy efficient laptops. Anyways, good gain from green.

2.
Unified communications
e-mail, instant messaging, desktop and advanced business applications, Internet Protocol (IP)-PBX, voice over IP (VoIP), presence, voice-mail, fax, audio video and web conferencing, unified messaging, unified voicemail, and whiteboarding into a single environment
Microsoft
Nortel
Alcatel-Lucent


3.
Business process management.
intersection between management and information technology,
Numerous tools are already rocking in the market.

4.
Metadata management
Don’t dream that I will tell everything.. go and search.


5.
Virtualization
All technological Disaster recovery approaches,


6.
Mashups
Mashup tools allow users to take things from multiple Web sites and combine them together to create a Web-centric composite application
Visit http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/?p=63 to get full idea about various mashup tools and SaaS services. And www.DataMashups.com is one of the best

7.
The Web platform
Its new wine for those who have interest in computing vast amount of data – next stage of Grid, cluster computing.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?

command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=

software&articleId=9041438

8.
Computing fabric
The simplest way to think about it is the next-generation architecture for enterprise servers. Fabric computing combines powerful server capabilities and advanced networking features into a single server structure.
http://www.infomaniacs.com/ComputingFabrics/Computing-Fabrics-And-Grids.htm#Response-to-Loom-for-Fabrics

9.
Real World Web
All web 2.0 features. Not sufficient to comment.


10.
Social software
Social networking sites turn to softwares to used to build advanced features in them.