{"id":2546,"date":"2011-11-14T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=2546"},"modified":"2011-11-14T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T15:00:00","slug":"technology-top-10-it-challenges-over-the-next-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/technology-top-10-it-challenges-over-the-next-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology: Top 10 IT Challenges over the Next Five Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gartner has released its list of top ten things that are sure to keep IT managers awake at night<\/a> over the next five years, as presented at Gartner’s 2011 annual Symposium\/ITxpo in Orlando by David Cappuccio<\/a>, a Gartner analyst.<\/p>\n

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  1. Vitualization<\/strong> will continue to expand. \u00a0Increasingly desktop virtualization will become deployed to enable better control of the desktop computing environment.<\/li>\n
  2. Big data<\/strong>, patterns and analytics.<\/li>\n
  3. Greater energy efficiency<\/strong> in devices and more monitoring of energy consumption.<\/li>\n
  4. Increasingly more targeted content<\/strong>, for application data and advertising.
    \nApplications will increasingly factor in known data about the user to target the data delivered.
    \nData will become more context and location aware of the user.<\/li>\n
  5. Changing workforce mindset. <\/strong> The turbulent economy increasingly has diminished employee company loyalty.
    \nWorkers are more loyal to themselves and to their career, and job changes, especially among younger workers\u00a0is more common.<\/li>\n
  6. Social networking<\/strong><\/strong>. \u00a0IT must and adopt to and include it as part of overall strategy.<\/li>\n
  7. Tablets and consumerized applications<\/strong> will be more tightly integrated into environments.<\/li>\n
  8. Server density. <\/strong> Ever-increasing bigger and more densely packed data centers.<\/li>\n
  9. Cloud computing<\/strong> increasingly will turn the role of IT into a service delivery team.<\/li>\n
  10. Fabric computing<\/strong> will become a reality, the integration of server, storage and network systems and components\u00a0to create what Gartner calls ‘resource pools’<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n
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    Gartner has released its list of top ten things that are sure to keep IT managers awake at night over the next five years, as presented at Gartner’s 2011 annual Symposium\/ITxpo in Orlando by David Cappuccio, a Gartner analyst. Vitualization…<\/span><\/p>\n

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