10 IT Issues You Should Really Care About

Gartner says IT needs to go green, unify communications, and get serious about virtualization.

Gartner says IT needs to go green, unify communications, and get serious about virtualization.

By Doug Barney

Gartner, Inc. (Stamford, CT)is not shy about making proclamations. Maybe that’s because users and vendorsalike take them seriously, and the company is right almost as often as KenJennings playing Jeopardy.

The research house recently announced the “TopTen Strategic Technologies for 2008.”

Some are no-brainers. Green IT, unifiedcommunications, and virtualization are all so obvious I probably could havethought of them.

Less obvious? Computing fabric where blades and serverresources are blended into what appears to a large single machine. The computer(really an amalgam of many computers) taps into a common pool of I/O, memory andprocessors.

Find out what else Gartner thinks is hot by going here.

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