Gartner’s Top 10 strategic technology trends for 2015

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Gartner defines a strategic technology trend as one with the potential for significant impact on the organization in the next three years. Factors that denote significant impact include a high potential for disruption to the business, end users or IT, the need for a major investment, or the risk of being late to adopt. These technologies impact the organization's long-term plans, programs and initiatives.

The top 10 strategic technology trends for 2015 are:

1. Computing Everywhere
Mobile device, mobile users everywhere

2. The Internet of Things
IoTs continue to proliferate, the Internet’s role is expanding to a diverse range of devices and communication streams

3. 3D Printing

4. Advanced, Pervasive and Invisible Analytics
Analytics will become deeply, but invisibly embedded everywhere.  Big data remains an important enabler for this trend but the focus needs to shift to thinking about big questions and big answers first and big data second — the value is in the answers, not the data.

5. Context-Rich Systems

6. Smart Machines
Prototype autonomous vehicles, advanced robots, virtual personal assistants and smart advisors already exist and will evolve rapidly, ushering in a new age of machine helpers.

7. Cloud/Client Computing

8. Software-defined applications and infrastructure

9. Web-scale IT
The emergence of more organizations acting, thinking and building apps and infrastructure similar to Web giants such as Amazon, Google and Facebook. The first step toward a Web-scale IT future should be DevOps—the marriage between the development and operations teams.

10. Risk-based security and self-protection
All roads to the digital future lead through security. Once organizations realize it’s impossible to provide a 100% secured environment, they can begin to apply more sophisticated risk assessment and mitigation tools.


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