Andrea Ciolini » Cloud Computing http://www.andreaciolini.com a little blog experiment Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:21:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 10 key IT trends for 2012 according to Gartner http://www.andreaciolini.com/2011/10/24/10-key-trends-for-2012-according-to-gartner/ http://www.andreaciolini.com/2011/10/24/10-key-trends-for-2012-according-to-gartner/#comments Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:24:11 +0000 Andrea http://www.andreaciolini.com/?p=3153 At a recent Gartner Symposium IT/Expo, David Cappuccio, managing vice president and chief of research for the Infrastructure teams with Gartner, introduced what he sees to be 10 key topics for next year’s CIO and business agendas:

1 Virtualization: nothing new here

2 Big data, patterns and analytics: ability to make sense of large unstructured data will be a key challenge in next few years

3. Energy efficiency and monitoring: IT will need to do more whilst consuming less power consumption

4. Context aware apps: connecting social networks with business intelligence to show something relevant on you smartphone

5. Staff retention and retraining: keeping good employees cost less than have new ones onboard

6. Social networks:  they cannot be ignored and should be managed very carefully as they may have an impact on brand reputation, business operations, marketing intelligence, etc.

7. Consumerization: more complex applications will be available through everyday mobile phones. Desktop computers will be less relevant

8. Compute per square foot:  ability to scale up data centers while not increasing the actual physical space that servers may occupy

9. Cloud computing: elasticity and scalability will drive further penetration

10. Fabrics: vertical integration of server, storage, and network systems and components to optimize shared data center resources

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Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. 

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