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Top Technology Trends for 2010 by Hemen Goswami

Dr. Hemen Goswami has twenty years of engineering, research, and project management experience. He joined Infogain in September 2003. In his current role, he is responsible to define and execute company’s technology roadmap and drive centers of excellence to build reusable assets and solutions. Prior to joining Infogain, he worked with the National University of Oman as a visiting Faculty in Information Engineering Department. Before that he spent several years in GE at Engineering Design and Development Center, Bangalore, and Train Management Systems of GE transportation, Florida, USA. During his stint with GE Transportation, he was involved with the common architecture group to provide architectural solutions and frameworks for multiple groups within GE Transportation.
As I look into the year 2010 and beyond, I see a few clear technology areas that most companies would be wise not to ignore.

My bet is on the following as the 5 top technology focus areas for 2010:
  • Virtualization: Virtualization is a proven software technology that is rapidly transforming the IT landscape and fundamentally changing the way that people compute. Virtualization will be a key technology component to drive Green IT.
  • Cloud Computing: Software as a Service (SaaS) will continue to be an area of investment for companies who wish to make their applications accessible over the Internet and available by subscription. Cloud Computing extends the SaaS model by enabling full outsourcing of the infrastructure to support such applications. It has emerged essentially as a new way to deliver IT-enabled capability to end users. The model is attractive for the SMB segment as it reduces intial and ongong maintenance costs. Cloud computing infrastructure will enable on-demand access, usage metering, self service, scalability, elasticity and a transparent business model.
  • Mobile Computation: Transformation of mobile computation from business to the enterprise segment is going to pick up momentum. Mobile device management, enterprise security, access management and provisioning are key areas to support enterprise readiness for mobility.
  • Convergence: Though Convergence is a broad term, I presume convergence of rich-media enabled software applications with underlying hardware infrastructure will take prominence. Digital Media on 3G/4G will penetrate domains such as education, entertainment and security/surveillance.
  • Business Intelligence and Analytics: BI consolidation to lower TCO and enable knowledge workers to effectively analyze information in order to cross-sell or up-sell will continue to be a prominent focus area in the year 2010. More and more enterprises will look into data logistics as a serious topic in support of their BI and analytics requirements.
Connectivity and collaboration with customers, with partners, across geographies, spanning multiple channels and devices; growing expectations for anytime, anywhere access to information on the basis of personalized preferences; and higher accountability to reduce energy consumption are all issues that drive my choices for top technology trends in 2010.