Top 2011 Predictions for IT

Bob Parker, vice president of Research for Manufacturing and Retail Insights at IDC, reports that business will resume at a brisker pace but businesses will not simply pick up where they left off and go forward as previously planned. "IT productivity has increased by 30% in the last 10 years so companies are ditching their previous project plans and looking instead at lessons learned in order to write new plans that will deliver the same or better productivity increases." Enterprises will seek to improve on gains by leveraging social media, knowledge management, mobility and cloud computing. IDC analysts offered these key IT predictions:

• Spending – Worldwide IT spending growth driven by emerging markets will be a solid 5.7% as hardware growth moderates and software and services spending rebounds
• Cloud – Public and private cloud adoption will surge and cloud-driven datacenter transformation will increase
• Mobility – Huge device volumes, new form factors, and millions of mobile apps as app-capable, non-PC devices will overcome PCs
• Connectivity – 4G wireless networks will begin to increase their threat to broadband networks
• M&A – Social business software vendors will consolidate and converge and SMBs will strongly adopt social networking strategies
• Big Data – The digital “universe” at 1.8 trillion gigabytes will drive demand for cloud-friendly information infrastructure and real-time analytics
• Web TV – IT and media industries will aggressively pursue consumers to become the next “virtual” cable company including more mobile advertising

Get more information about the 2011 IT predictions at IDC.

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