The CIOs have declared this as the year of transition. In a recently released Gartner research report, over 1500 CIOs have said that 2010 will see a transition not only economically and strategically, but also in terms of technology– “from heavier weight technologies to lighter weight technologies such as virtualization, cloud computing and web 2.0.”
Top 10 Business and Technology Priorities in 2010
| Top 10 Business Priorities |
Ranking |
Top 10 Technology Priorities |
Ranking |
|
Business process improvement |
1 |
Virtualization |
1 |
|
Reducing enterprise costs |
2 |
Cloud computing |
2 |
|
Increasing the use of information/analytics |
3 |
Web 2.0 |
3 |
|
Improving enterprise workforce effectiveness |
4 |
Networking, voice and data communication |
4 |
|
Attracting and retaining new customers |
5 |
Business Intelligence |
5 |
|
Managing change initiatives |
6 |
Mobile Technologies |
6 |
|
Creating new products or services (innovation) |
7 |
Data/document management and storage |
7 |
|
Targeting customers and markets more effectively |
8 |
Service-oriented applications and architecture |
8 |
|
Consolidating business operations |
9 |
Security technologies |
9 |
|
Expanding current customer relationships |
10 |
IT management |
10 |
Source: Gartner EXP (January 2010)
Apparently Cloud Computing and Web 2.0 have moved up the list since 2009 (where they ranked 16th and 15th respectively). According to Mark McDonald, Group Vice President and Head of Research, Gartner Executive Programs, “These strategic, ‘lighter-weight’ technologies are of increasing importance to the CIO. Exploiting them provides the cost, capacity and capability gains needed to define, source, create and deploy information- and process-intensive solutions that will reshape IT and its future role.”
The focus has shifted from cost-cutting to investing in new technologies that will get more value per unit, thus increasing productivity. With the market opening up, albeit cautiously, this is the time for the outsourcers to take advantage.
Here are the lists of companies that make to the top 10 in the new technologies.
Top 10 Virtualization vendors to watch out for in 2010:
|
List of top Virtualization vendors |
|
|
1 |
VKernel |
|
2 |
Hyper9 |
|
3 |
DynamicOps |
|
4 |
Embotics |
|
5 |
Hy Trust |
|
6 |
Catbird |
|
7 |
Netuitive |
|
8 |
Liquidware Labs |
|
9 |
App Sense |
|
10 |
RingCube |
Source: www.cio.com
|
List of top Cloud computing vendors |
|
|
1 |
Amazon |
|
2 |
AT&T |
|
3 |
Enomaly |
|
4 |
|
|
5 |
GoGrid (a division of Servepath) |
|
6 |
Microsoft |
|
7 |
Netsuite |
|
8 |
Rackspace |
|
9 |
RightScale |
|
10 |
Salesforce.com |
Source: www.cio.com
Top 5 Web 2.0 start ups to watch in 2010
|
List of top Web 2.0 start ups |
|
|
1 |
Backtype |
|
2 |
Evernote |
|
3 |
Kosmix |
|
4 |
Posterous |
|
5 |
Shout’em |
Source: www.cio.com
And the top start ups in 2010
|
No. |
Name of the company |
Product |
Key features |
|
1 |
CloudSwitch |
CloudSwitch |
Moves existing applications from internal data centers to public clouds, without requiring applications to be rewritten or management tools to be changed. |
|
2 |
Dasient |
Web Anti-Malware (WAM) |
Web security service designed to identify legitimate websites infected by malicious code. Uses Web crawlers and heuristics to automatically detect code that cyber-criminals have loaded onto legitimate Web sites in order to download malware or push visitors to fraudulent sites. |
|
3 |
Eucalyptus Systems |
Eucalyptus (Elastic Utility Computing Architecture Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems) |
Open source software that aggregates servers, storage and network infrastructure into private clouds that allow end-user customization and self-service provisioning. Compatibility with the Amazon Web Services infrastructure enables “hybrid clouds” consisting of internal and external data center resources. |
|
4 |
HyTrust |
HyTrust Appliance |
Virtualization security tool that provides a centralized point of control for virtual infrastructure access, policy management, security configuration, and compliance. |
|
5 |
MeLLmo |
Roambi |
Takes business intelligence data and converts it into interactive visualizations for the iPhone, with bar graphs and interactive pie charts that take advantage of the iPhone’s touch capabilities. |
|
6 |
MobileIron |
Virtual Smartphone Platform |
Smartphone management platform that provides IT visibility into mobile devices and their data by creating and storing phone clones; helps enterprises identify spikes in usage and thus control costs; allows IT to remotely wipe sensitive data without deleting a user’s personal applications. |
|
7 |
Vineyard Networks |
NetCore On Demand |
Software-as-a-service network management tool makes it easy to troubleshoot problems and monitor network usage performance, even for customers who lack a networking background. |
|
8 |
Viridity Software |
Viridity |
Targets energy use by mapping the connections between applications and specific IT equipment. Viridity provides step-by-step recommendations to eliminate power and cooling inefficiencies, simulates the potential impact of new technology deployments and enables chargeback. |
|
9 |
Wanova |
Distributed Desktop Virtualization |
Virtual desktop software that targets mobile and remote desktops provides centralized management by storing a primary copy of an operating system image in the data center, while storing a cached copy on endpoints to boost performance and provide offline desktop use. |
|
10 |
Zetta |
Enterprise Cloud Storage |
A cloud storage service backed by a file system with snapshots, replication and other enterprise-class features. Zetta encrypts data at rest, and can withstand multiple hardware and network failures without losing data. |
Source: www.cio.com
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