Finbarr McCarthy

Gartner recently released their “Top 10 technologies and trends” for the coming year (2010).

Gartner defined a strategic technology as one with the potential for significant impact — meaning it will require substantial financial investment, has a high potential to disrupt the business or puts the organization at risk if it’s late to adopt — in the next three years.

No surprise - Cloud Computing tops the list, whats interesting is in that delivering the list at the Gartner Symposium, David Cearley says “Cloud computing is one of the most hyped terms in the industry right now,” and went on to say “In many ways it’s overhyped. In the next 12-18 months, it’s going to crash into the trough of disillusionment. But we do think cloud computing is going to be a very important long-term phenomena.”

Here is the complete list for 2010 and for interest sake I have also included Gartners previous lists of the Top 10 technologies and trends for 2009 and 2008;

2010
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1210613

1. Cloud Computing
2. Advanced Analytics
3. Client Computing
4. IT for Green
5. Reshaping the Data Center
6. Social Computing
7. Security – Activity Monitoring
8. Flash Memory
9. Virtualization for Availability
10. Mobile Applications

2009
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=777212

1. Virtualization
2. Cloud Computing
3. Servers — Beyond Blades
4. Web-Oriented Architectures
5. Enterprise Mashups
6. Specialized Systems
7. Social Software and Social Networking
8. Unified Communications
9. Business Intelligence
10. Green IT

2008
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=530109

1. Green IT
2. Unified Communications
3. Business Process Modeling
4. Metadata Management
5. Virtualization 2.0
6. Mashup & Composite Apps
7. Web Platform & WOA
8. Computing Fabric
9. Real World Web
10. Social Software

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