The market research group IDC has just released is annual predictions for IT for 2012 and the bottom line is that you can expect more of the same. The two key trends are the continuing proliferation and deployment of mobile devices and the ongoing adoption of Cloud technology.
Mobility found its way onto the list twice. The increased use of mobile devices ranked third on the list and the build-out of mobile networks ranked sixth. Cloud computing also showed up two times with expanding Cloud adoption ranking fourth and enhanced Cloud services landed in the fifth slot. Overall, spending on Cloud technology is expected to top the $36 billion mark in 2012, according to IDC, growing at four times the annual IT growth rate.
Both Cloud technology and mobility have clearly hit IT’s version of the virtuous cycle. With mobility, more devices drive the demand for more applications, which steps up demand for more network capacity. More network capacity can support a greater number of devices and so on. Need an example? Look at the iPhone 4S. All the voice recognition processing takes place in the Cloud.
Oh yes, the Cloud. The same kind of iterative development is going on there as well. Advances in technology leads to more - and easier-to-use - capacity, that leads to more applications, which leads to more demand. And so on.
Looked at from one perspective, IT is undergoing a seismic shift, as the personal computer becomes one device among many and may not even be the most significant within the foreseeable future. But looked at with a longer-term lens, computer technology is undergoing one of its period shifts from distributed processing to centralized processing of information. No doubt, in time, distributed processing (with the compute action in your hand and not in the Cloud) will be back in vogue. And with all the changes, don’t forget that mainframe computers still play key roles in IT.
IDC’s top two predictions, by the way, are that IT spending will grow almost seven percent next year (unless the bottom falls out in Europe and then it may shrink to two percent growth or less) and that emerging markets will represent more than half of all IT spending in 2012.
Since 2010, the market research firm tapped mobility and Cloud computing as the major trends for 2011 as well. It is clear that both technologies are getting bigger fast and will be here to stay. Your job is to figure out where they fit in for your organization.
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Mobility found its way onto the list twice. The increased use of mobile devices ranked third on the list and the build-out of mobile networks ranked sixth. Cloud computing also showed up two times with expanding Cloud adoption ranking fourth and enhanced Cloud services landed in the fifth slot. Overall, spending on Cloud technology is expected to top the $36 billion mark in 2012, according to IDC, growing at four times the annual IT growth rate.
Both Cloud technology and mobility have clearly hit IT’s version of the virtuous cycle. With mobility, more devices drive the demand for more applications, which steps up demand for more network capacity. More network capacity can support a greater number of devices and so on. Need an example? Look at the iPhone 4S. All the voice recognition processing takes place in the Cloud.
Oh yes, the Cloud. The same kind of iterative development is going on there as well. Advances in technology leads to more - and easier-to-use - capacity, that leads to more applications, which leads to more demand. And so on.
Looked at from one perspective, IT is undergoing a seismic shift, as the personal computer becomes one device among many and may not even be the most significant within the foreseeable future. But looked at with a longer-term lens, computer technology is undergoing one of its period shifts from distributed processing to centralized processing of information. No doubt, in time, distributed processing (with the compute action in your hand and not in the Cloud) will be back in vogue. And with all the changes, don’t forget that mainframe computers still play key roles in IT.
IDC’s top two predictions, by the way, are that IT spending will grow almost seven percent next year (unless the bottom falls out in Europe and then it may shrink to two percent growth or less) and that emerging markets will represent more than half of all IT spending in 2012.
Since 2010, the market research firm tapped mobility and Cloud computing as the major trends for 2011 as well. It is clear that both technologies are getting bigger fast and will be here to stay. Your job is to figure out where they fit in for your organization.
Image contributed by Dan.
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