Gartner Reveals Top 10 Technologies For Next 4 Years

Dr. Jim writes "The good folks over at the Gartner Group have revealed the top 10 technologies that they believe will change the world over the next four years. The usual suspects including multi-core chips, virtualization, and cloud computing are on the list. Multicore servers and virtualization will mean that firms will need fewer boxes, and apps can be easily moved from box to box (and right out the door to an outsourced data center). Workplace social networks and cloud computing means that the need for a centralized IT department will go away. Firms will no longer need to own/maintain the boxes that they use to run their firm's apps. With no need to touch a box, there will be no need to have the IT staff co-located with the boxes."

Comments

Misleading summary; lean blog post

[bbasgen]

  The article summary quotes a blog posting, *NOT* the Gartner study. Further, the blog posting only quotes the top ten items from Gartner, and provides no further data.

  The blogger is passing around FUD, without supporting those statements with any information from Gartner. This is a non-article with so little data.

Re:Misleading summary; lean blog post

[antifoidulus]

The blogger is passing around FUD, without supporting those statements with any information from Gartner.

And this is different from stuff actually by Gartner how? This is Gartner we are talking about, so if they did publish such a study, a more accurate title might be, "Top 10 technologies we have a vested financial interest in promoting"

Re:Forgetting one thing

[Maint_Pgmr_3]

http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=530109 for the real thing

He left off a word!!!!

[Maint_Pgmr_3]

http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=681107 "Gartner Identifies Top Ten Disruptive Technologies for 2008 to 2012"

Re:Let me be the first to say

[afabbro]

'Duh'

Gartner is mainly known for two things:

• "Duh"
• Being wrong.

Oh, and charging a lot. cf. Cringley's fine column on Gartner.