While IT departments are humming along now, it is always
good to look into the future strategies and be ready for them. Following are
some IT Trends that will impact your business from 2012 onwards.
- Integration of Mobile Devices:
IPhones, IPads, smartphones and
many other mobile devices have been available for personal use, but IT
departments are hesitant to use them as a way of accessing corporate data due
to security and support concerns. But observers predict a change in the coming
future.
“IT departments are moving away
from the command and control philosophy and I predict that we will see it die
in 2012,” said Tim Crawford, CIO of All
Covered, an IT services company. “They will start accepting chaos and making
mobility a key element of their technology strategies going forward,” he said.
- Virtualization:
Better tools are making this
technology worthy of attention from CIOs, according to analysts at Gartner.
This technology partitions a server into smaller parts, with each part running
independently with its own software and operating system. This helps in the
balancing of IT budget as less hardware is required.
Virtualization will transform IT
management, what is brought, its deployment, companies planning, their charging,
according to the report from gartner.
Gartner vice-president Thomas
Bittman even predicts that the days of the monolithic, general purpose
operating system will soon be over.
- Cloud computing:
“The market
for cloud computing exploded in 2010 and continues strong in 2011, and I see
greater adoption 2012,” said Ed Laczynski, vice president of cloud strategies
of Datapie, a provider of IT management services. He said that many business have
moved some of the “low-hanging fruit” such as email to the clouds, and the
trend will continue.
Benefits of cloud programming are
that it is standardized and works over the web, he pointed out. “It is
essentially the same pipeline have in your office today, so you don’t need to
invest too much on reconfiguring your in-house infrastructure. In addition, in
a disaster, your data can be accessed from virtually any location,” Laczynski
said.
He also noted that the uptick in mergers and acquisitions will fuel even more interest in cloud computing. He said that it provided an easy way to hand over the keys in terms of data ownership.
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