Earlier this year IT research company Gartner presented the Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2013, and earlier this week 2014 top 10 list has been presented at a Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2013 in Orlando, Florida.
Let’s compare the summaries of those trends that have the potential to affect individuals, businesses and IT organizations:
Technology Trends for 2013
- Mobile device battles
- Mobile applications and HTML5
- The personal cloud
- The Internet of Things
- Hybrid IT and cloud computing
- Strategic big data
- Actionable analytics
- Mainstream in-memory computing (IMC)
- Integrated ecosystems
- Enterprise app stores
Technology Trends for 2014
- Mobile Device Diversity and Management
- Mobile Apps and Applications
- The Internet of Everything
- Hybrid Cloud and IT as a Service Broker
- Cloud/Client Architecture
- The Era of Personal Cloud
- Software Defined Anything
- Web-Scale IT
- Smart Machine
- 3-D Printing
Mobile trends are the strongest contender on both lists. It is expected that 2015 over 80% of handsets in mature markets will be smart phones.
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