Top 10 Strategic Technology trends for 2010

A number of technological innovations and much more advanced technologies have helped drive what we have called “a boom ! bust !” & keep on , improving and influencing our daily life which includes wireless and consumer electronics; semiconductors; wireless Internet; VoIP; broadband Internet; digital music; on-demand software; security; biometrics and offshoring, whereas the Common links for the themes are: 1) connectivity; 2) productivity; 3) global acceptance; and, to an extent; 4) consumer usage. That said the ongoing trend of technology investment on a high pitch mode.

Top 10 Strategic Technology trends for 2010

a) Cloud Computing - Cloud computing is expected to play an important role in the future of technology. The concept of cloud computing is for large pools of computer systems to share an IT infrastructure. Cloud computing accesses virtual resources and is not limited by the power and capabilities of local or remote computers. Cloud computing will support the next generation of enterprise data centres, operating like the Internet to provide extreme scale and fast access to networked users. Uses for cloud computing will increase over the next three to five years.

b) Unified communications and collaboration (UCC) - The need for connectivity, anytime and anywhere, will remain essential despite economic conditions. UCC gives enterprises the impetus to enhance both internal and external communications by consolidating voice and other services on to standard data networks, thereby providing IT with an intuitive way to reduce operating costs.

c) NetBooks - The small 'cutesy form' factor will remain the primary selling point for netbooks, but it will also change the way these devices are being used.

d) Windows 7 - The most significant feature of Windows 7 is likely to be virtualisation, a technology that allows one computer to run operating systems or applications that used to require several different systems to handle. With virtualisation, users will be able to run Linux, Windows 95 and DOS all on the same machine, at the same time. It will provide a lot of benefits, including energy savings, cost savings on software upgrades and accessibility to a wider range of applications.

e) Online applications - The Internet is becoming the platform on which all business documents can be created and, more importantly, shared.

f) USB 3.0 - USB has been the most successful plug-and-play connectivity standard for computing & USB 3.0 will be one of the highlight consumer technologies. It will boast maximum data-transfer speeds up to ten times faster than USB 2.0. With this speed, people will be able to transfer 27 gigabytes of data to an external device in about 70 seconds, when the same amount of data would have taken 15 minutes to transfer over a USB 2.0 connection.

g) Faster, More Secure Wireless - With mobile devices becoming more pervasive and finding more applications, mobile technologies that enable high user volumes, high-bandwidth voice services, seamless roaming and adaptive mesh creation, as well as industry- specific services like RFID asset tracking, will become important for businesses and consumers.

h) RFID-enabled mobile phones - RFID technology with the hope that consumers will change the way they buy products and services and use their credit cards. ® Ahamed Shinto S » » Bangalore