The top ten strategic technology trends for
2014 include:
Mobile Device Diversity
and Management
Through 2018, the growing variety of devices,
computing styles, user contexts and interaction paradigms will make
"everything everywhere" strategies unachievable. The unexpected
consequence of bring your own device (BYOD) programs is a doubling or even
tripling of the size of the mobile workforce. This is placing tremendous strain
on IT and Finance organizations. Enterprise policies on employee-owned hardware
usage need to be thoroughly reviewed and, where necessary, updated and
extended.
Mobile Apps and
Applications
Gartner predicts that through 2014, improved
JavaScript performance will begin to push HTML5 and the browser as a mainstream
enterprise application development environment. Gartner recommends that
developers focus on creating expanded user interface models including richer
voice and video that can connect people in new and different ways. Apps will
continue to grow while applications will begin to shrink.
The Internet of
Everything
The Internet is expanding beyond PCs and
mobile devices into enterprise assets such as field equipment, and consumer
items such as cars and televisions. The problem is that most enterprises and
technology vendors have yet to explore the possibilities of an expanded
internet and are not operationally or organizationally ready. The combination
of data streams and services created by digitizing everything creates four
basic usage models – Manage; Monetize; Operate; Extend.
Hybrid Cloud and IT as
Service Broker
Bringing together personal clouds and external
private cloud services is an imperative. Enterprises should design private
cloud services with a hybrid future in mind and make sure future
integration/interoperability is possible.
Cloud/Client Architecture
Cloud/client computing models are shifting. In
the cloud/client architecture, the client is a rich application running on an
Internet-connected device, and the server is a set of application services
hosted in an increasingly elastically scalable cloud computing platform. The
cloud is the control point and system or record and applications can span
multiple client devices. The client environment may be a native application or
browser-based; the increasing power of the browser is available to many client
devices, mobile and desktop alike.
The Era of Personal Cloud
The personal cloud era will mark a power shift
away from devices toward services. In this new world, the specifics of devices
will become less important for the organization to worry about, although the
devices will still be necessary. Users will use a collection of devices, with
the PC remaining one of many options, but no one device will be the primary
hub. Rather, the personal cloud will take on that role.
Software Defined Anything
Software-defined anything (SDx) is a
collective term that encapsulates the growing market momentum for improved
standards for infrastructure programmability and data center interoperability
driven by automation inherent to cloud computing, DevOps and fast
infrastructure provisioning. As a collective, SDx also incorporates various
initiatives like OpenStack, OpenFlow, the Open Compute Project and Open Rack,
which share similar visions.
Web-Scale IT
Web-scale IT is a pattern of global-class
computing that delivers the capabilities of large cloud service providers
within an enterprise IT setting by rethinking positions across several
dimensions. Large cloud services providers such as Amazon, Google, Facebook,
etc., are re-inventing the way IT in which IT services can be delivered. Their
capabilities go beyond scale in terms of sheer size to also include scale as it
pertains to speed and agility. If enterprises want to keep pace, then they need
to emulate the architectures, processes and practices of these exemplary cloud
providers.
Smart Machines
Through 2020, the smart machine era will
blossom with a proliferation of contextually aware, intelligent personal
assistants, smart advisors (such as IBM Watson), advanced global industrial
systems and public availability of early examples of autonomous vehicles. The
smart machine era will be the most disruptive in the history of IT. New systems
that begin to fulfill some of the earliest visions for what information
technologies might accomplish — doing what we thought only people could do and
machines could not —are now finally emerging.
3-D Printing
Worldwide shipments of 3D printers are
expected to grow 75 percent in 2014 followed by a near doubling of unit
shipments in 2015. While very expensive “additive manufacturing” devices have
been around for 20 years, the market for devices ranging from $50,000 to $500,
and with commensurate material and build capabilities, is nascent yet growing
rapidly.
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