Posted on Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 at 9:14 am
Gartner Identifies Top Ten Disruptive Technologies for 2008 to 2012
Gartner Research
Speaking at the Gartner Emerging Trends and Technologies Road show in Melbourne today, Gartner Fellow David Cearley said that business IT applications will start to mirror the features found in popular consumer social software, such as Facebook and MySpace, as organizations look to improve employee collaboration and harness the community feedback of customers.
Gartner’s top 10 disruptive technologies 2008-2012:
* Multicore and hybrid processors
* Virtualization and fabric computing
* Social networks and social software
* Cloud computing and cloud/Web platforms
* Web mashups
* User Interface
* Ubiquitous computing
* Contextual computing
* Augmented reality
* Semantics
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