[펌]Gartner Identifies Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2011
Gartner Identifies Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2011
Gartner Research, a world leading information technology research and advisory company, comes out with annual predictions on strategic technologies that will have an impact on organizations in the coming year. Gartner defines a strategic technology as “one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years. Factors that denote significant impact include a high potential for disruption to IT or the business, the need for a major dollar investment, or the risk of being late to adopt.”
The top 10 for 2011:
- Cloud Computing is web-based processing (i.e. Google’s Gmail is an example of cloud computing), whereby shared resources (software, etc.) are available on demand over the Internet to computers and mobile devices like smart phones. Gartner predicts that cloud computing will become more common. This is a paradigm shift really – for generations we have depended on client workstations and installed applications to perform tasks. With cloud computing, we will depend more on, well, the cloud housing all of our data as well as applications. There might be slower adoption-rates for hospitals and other information-sensitive organizations.
- Mobile Applications and Media Tablets: Gartner estimates that by the end of 2010, 1.2 billion people will carry handsets capable of “rich, mobile commerce” which would also include the ability to use your handset/smartphone almost like a personal computer.
- Social Communications and Collaboration includes Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc. in terms of communication, and Microsoft Live, Google Docs, Zoho, etc. for collaboration purposes. Facebook earned prominence in 2010 by signing up the 500,000,000th user. The number of hospitals that are using these social apps is growing. Look at Ed Bennett’s Hospital Social Network List as an example. These social apps are not only gaining in popularity but also finding enterprise uses: CRM’s (content management system) are starting to integrate social information into their new versions. Gartner predicts that by 2016, these social apps will be integrated into most organizational/business applications. Organizations can also use data coming from social feedback mechanisms like Yelp and Twitter to see what the public is saying about them and make changes as necessary.
- Video: not exactly a new format but being increasingly used by non-media companies. “Over the next three years Gartner believes that video will become a commonplace content type and interaction model for most users, and by 2013, more than 25 percent of the content that workers see in a day will be dominated by pictures, video or audio.” How will this affect hospitals and HIPAA?
- Next Generation Analytics: the ability to run simulations that can better predict outcomes, rather than depending mostly on past data.
- Social Analytics: “Social analytics describes the process of measuring, analyzing and interpreting the results of interactions and associations among people, topics and ideas. These interactions may occur on social software applications used in the workplace, in internally or externally facing communities or on the social web.”
- Context-Aware Computing: An example of this is location-aware computing. Based on your IP address, when you search Google, do you notice how it tends to give you back results from your own backyard? Expanding on this concept is using your preferences, environment and connections to determine how best to interact with the end-user.
- Storage Class Memory: Flash memory has been around for much of this decade. It’s commonly used in thumb drives/flash drives. Apple’s iPad runs on Flash memory rather than a hard drive, as does the iPhone. It is cheaper to produce and has better performance with heat and space than standard optical hard drives. Gartner predicts that more storage devices will use flash memory more commonly in the next few years.
- Ubiquitous Computing: “It’s a bug that cars were invented before computers.” So says Eric Schmidt of Google in this article. Google has created a computer-controlled car. No interaction from humans is the goal while driving, according to Google. Ubiquitous computing is stating a fact of which we are all painfully aware: computers are everywhere. They control how we work, live, play on a daily basis. Gartner predicts the world will only become more computer-dependent in the next year.
- Fabric-based Infrastructure and Computers – um, this one was sort of over my head so I skipped it. Let’s hope it wasn’t important.
You can read the whole news release for yourself.
This is not the last Top 10 prediction list to come out for 2011. It’s just the first of many.
I was looking at Gartner’s “hype cycle” for 2009. They are usually pretty spot-on with their predictions. No glaring surprises in the 2009 report and what ended up happening in 2010. What do you see as a strategic technology for your organization in 2011?
원본 Source : http://nnlm.gov/gmr/blog/2010/11/05/top-10-for-2011/
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Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) — Through interviews with friends, former colleagues and business associates, GAME CHANGERS reveals the many layers of the intensely private Steve Jobs – his style of leadership, management and creative process. Interviews include Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, former Apple CEO John Scully, journalist turned Venture Capitalist Michael Moritz, Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, former Apple “Mac Evangelist” and Silicon Valley Entrepreneur, Guy Kawasaki and Robert X.Cringely, technology journalist and former Apple employee. Watch BLOOMBERG GAME CHANGERS on Bloomberg TV on Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET. (Source: Bloomberg)
[Mashable] 4 Game-Changing Trends in Web App Design
Web applications are one of the greatest revelations of the Internet (
). It’s a development that is largely specific to the Web 2.0 era, but their significance will be in effect for generations.
The web app is a signifier of a fundamental shift in computing. It’s representative of the cloud and our newfound ability to decentralize our technical lives and spread ourselves across desktop computers, mobile devices and pretty much anything else connected to the Internet.
But web apps are driven by trends, and trends move fast. So if you’re slaving away on a mobile app, here are four trends that you might want to consider before coding yourself into irrelevance.
1. Location
It’s not that location started with Foursquare (
), but it took Foursquare’s simple badge system to make the world pay attention. If your web app isn’t location aware, people are far less likely to be aware of it. With web juggernauts like Facebook () launching Places and Google (
) shifting product rockstar Marissa Mayer to location and local services, it’s safe to bet on geolocation.
These days, it’s easier than ever to to make your app location aware. HTML5 features a native location protocol (try finding yourself with an HTML5-compliant browser), and with a few easy lines of JavaScript, your app can be pegging latitudes and longitudes in no time. And, according to SimpleGeo’s Andrew Mager, HTML5’s location protocol is doubly useful for mobile web apps, because it doesn’t hog battery resources by constantly running GPS.
2. Data Portability
Internet dwellers have railed against the classic walled gardens of the web for years. It stands to reason then, that as we entered the Web 2.0 era, developers should have been prepared for this. Unfortunately, this isn’t always the case and, while your data is your data, there was a long period where you could only use it in the place it was created.
Now, there has been a gradual shift toward portability and many of the once guilty parties are taking steps to enable you to take your data with you wherever you choose. Services like Posterous () have strongly pushed the envelope here in getting developers to ease up, but those initiatives were still, in several cases, stonewalled.
It wasn’t until October 6, when Facebook got hip to data portability, that this became a true trend. That announcement should be considered a death knell to any web app hoping to make a buck while keeping user data proprietary.
3. Mobility
It’s happening so fast that it’s hard to see the lines beginning to blur, but web apps and mobile apps are becoming indistinguishable from one another. Sure you can install an app on your Android () or iOS device, but some of the best mobile implementations have avoided coding unique apps and focused on the mobile functionality of their web apps.
Perhaps the most shining example of this transition is Shaun Inman’s Fever. This RSS reader installs directly on your web server and is arguably the best RSS reader on the face of the planet. It’s also fully functional on most modern mobile devices by simply visiting the same URL that you’ve set the reader up on. No extra lifting, just one unified experience.
4. HTML5
It might not be completely ready for primetime yet, but if you’re not preparing for HTML5, you’re preparing for obsolescence. Incorporating features that make many of the oldest bastions of web plugins redundant, HTML5 is the future of the web. Video () playback, geolocation, drag-and-drop media and more are all built-in.
When the the World Wide Web Consortium finally ratifies the HTML5 standard, you’ll probably start hearing more talk of Web 3.0 than you can possibly stand.
These four trends are some of the biggest ones in the web app world right now. Add your own thoughts on trends that are revolutionizing the way we create and use web apps in the comments below.
RIM’s BlackBerry Price Collapse
CHART OF THE DAY: RIM’s BlackBerry Price Collapse
RIM announced on its earnings call last week that it would stop announcing average selling prices (“ASPs”) after this quarter. RIM blamed the move on the increase in both the number of devices it sells and the number of countries it sells BlackBerry devices into, which “makes forecasting product mix and therefore ASP increasingly difficult.”
But it’s also possible that RIM doesn’t want to keep reporting ASPs because the trend is generally downward. This includes a sharp decline over the past year, from a $371 ASP peak in the fourth fiscal quarter of 2009, to the $304 ASP it reported last quarter.
RIM gets almost 20% of its revenue from selling services, so to some degree, it’s worth lowering device prices to sign up more subscribers. But RIM will also stop reporting subscriber numbers after this quarter, as those are supposedly becoming trickier to predict, too. (RIM has also missed its subscriber growth forecast a few times recently.)
As the BlackBerry becomes more of a mid-level device — as Apple’s iPhone and Google Android devices further take over the high end of the market — BlackBerry ASPs may continue to decline. But the good news is that they’re still significantly ahead of many of RIM’s rivals, such as Motorola and Nokia.
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