| Gartner Picks Top Four Trends |
| Wednesday, 17 May 2006 by Michel Roth | |||
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Commoditisation and consumerisation involves technology such as PCs, storage and bandwidth becoming essentially commodities. Gartner claimed this trend will continue and encompass elements of software and services as well. Virtualisation and tera-architectures is the pooling of IT resources in a way which masks the physical nature and finite boundaries of those devices from users, for example server virtualisation. Software delivery models and development styles encompasses using new ways of managing and delivering services to meet the needs of business, Gartner also claimed it is important in the evolution of the software industry. It added the new software delivery and development models focus on people. The final trend of community and collaboration involves Gartner claiming the average knowledge worker participates in 10 virtual communities today. Within 1 0 years, 80 percent of the work performed by employees will be collaborative rather than people working alone, according to the analyst. Read more at the source.
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