Gartner’s Top Strategic Technologies For 2009

IT research firm Gartner Inc. says companies should pay particularly close attention to any strategic technologies that can impact their long-term plans, programs and initiatives. Gartner has compiled a list of what it considers the top 10 technologies and trends enterprises should be considering. Among them:

– virtualization,

– cloud computing,

– the evolution of server technology,

– Web-oriented architectures,

– the “enterprise mashup product environment,”

– heterogeneous server systems,

– social software and networking,

– a reduction in “the number of different communications vendors with which a typical organization works,”

– business intelligence tools, and

– Green IT.

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