Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2010

Jones said cloud computing continues to grow in importance. According to Gartner, the three important areas of corporate use of the cloud are consumption of cloud services, developing cloud based applications and implementing private cloud computing environments.

Public cloud at this hour in time

"Not everything is appropriate in a public cloud at this hour in time," Jones said. "Regulatory and maturity issues may mean you don't want to put things on public clouds, however you may want to experiment with cloud computing, so private clouds may be the answer."

The dominant client computing model was and nevertheless is Windows on a PC, according to Jones. Nevertheless, that model is starting to break down as more options become available to IT managers.

Mobile applications are becoming very important to the CIO," Jones said. "What we're seeing is as people deliver more business to consumer applications, three major B2C architectures have begun to emerge."

The new face of business intelligence

"Analytics is the new face of business intelligence, not just processing data afterwards the event, nevertheless analysing what's happening now to predict what's going to happen henceforth," Jones said.

According to Gartner, three aspects of social computing have grown in the enterprise, and in a word must be considered a strategic innovation.

* Public social computing, just as Facebook and MySpace, not only through your employees' use, however also monitoring such networks to identify your company's public image.

"You can start building communities of business related clients and partners, so they can share information and you can share information with them," Jones said. "There are all sorts of ways in which you can use social computing as part of your enterprise strategy."

Jones said security is something IT managers all have to worry about and that they must know what all their users are doing across the network.

According to Gartner new types of technologies, network access and security attacks means IT managers must be extra vigilant in this area.

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