Gartner research group released a list of 10 strategic technologies for 2008 that could pose a significant impact on enterprises during the next three years. The impact could include the risk of late adoption, the need for a major capital investment or a high potential for disruption to IT or business. Green IT topped the list of strategic technologies that companies should consider in their planning processes as attention paid to green IT issues will accelerate and expand in 2008. They advised companies to think about potential regulations and have back-up plans for data centre and capacity growth. Strong interest in the impact on power grids, carbon emissions and other environmental impacts could lead to future regulations that could inhibit how companies build data centres.
The other strategic technologies for 2008 include unified communications, business process modeling, metadata management, virtualisation 2.0, mashup and composite applications, web platform and WOA, computing fabric, real world web and social software.
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