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Green IT - Driven by increased awareness of environmental issues; increasing energy costs; regulatory requirements; government procurement rules; and a growing sense corporate social responsibility.
Unified Communications - F unctionality drawing from five core technologies: voicemail, PBXs, e-mail/calendaring, IM (instant messaging), and conferencing/collaboration. Communications are increasingly becoming IP-based, analog systems are switching to digital, and integration among voice, network, storage, video technologies, etc is growing.
Business Process Modeling - Applying technologies to simulate, model and design the processes that run businesses. Business process management suites may evolve to include, model-driven development, content/document management, collaboration capabilities, system connectivity, business intelligence activity monitoring/management, rules and systems management.
Metadata Management -Management of customer data integration and product integration and product information management will be linked as part of an overall enterprise information management (EIM) strategy. Metadata is the foundation for information infrastructure and is found throughout IT systems. Metadata management facilitates reuse, consistency, integrity and shareability.
Virtualization 2.0 - Simplifies installation and movement of applications enabling broader improvements in infrastructure cost reduction, flexibility and resiliency. It also simplifies the moving of work from one machine to another, and allows changes to be made without impacting other IT systems as well as providing disaster recovery benefits.
Mashup & Composite Apps - A "Mashup" is a Web technology that combines content from multiple sources. Barely known 2 years ago, Gartner predicts that "by 2010, Web mashups will be the dominant model (80 percent) for the creation of composite enterprise applications."
Web Platform & WOA - Part of a trend in which IT functions are increasingly being delivered as a service. In the future, everything may be delivered as a service, including storage and other basic infrastructure needs.
Computing Fabric - A server design still a work in progress, involving treating memory, processors and I/O cards as pooled resources instead of a fixed arrangement
Real World Web - Ever increasing network availability and bandwidth make the "real world Web" possible where reality is augmented, in real time, with access to information specific to locations, objects or people. " For example in navigation, a printed list of directions from the Web do not react to changes, but a GPS navigation unit provides real-time directions that react to events and movements; the latter case is akin to the real-world Web of augmented reality."
Social Software - Podcasts, videocasts, blogs, wikis, social bookmarks, and social networking tools, are changing the way people communicate both in social and business settings.
