Most Profitable global strategic technologies for the year ahead
Technologies that have the potential to drive growth of an enterprise, and that can significantly affect the initiatives and long-term business plans of an enterprise constitute Strategic Technologies. What does year 2010 hold for emerging as well as established enterprises, custom offshore software development [http://www.smartgreycells.com] companies in particular? Read below:
Cloud Computing
It involves service providers offering a wide array of IT-enabled services to consumers. The success of this model can largely be ascribed to its cost-effectiveness and absence of CapEx (hardware& software). India, however, has still a lot to catch up. A major research firm points that spending on IT cloud services would grow threefold, reaching $42 billion by 2012. This roughly would account for 9% of revenues in five key market domains. Biggies like IBM, Dell, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Sun Microsystems have already announced their dominance in Cloud Computing.
Client computing
A client is a type of application or computer system that accesses a remote service on a server (which is another computer system) via a network. It can be categorized on the bases of Local Storage and Local Processing as Rich (Fat) Client, Thin Client and Hybrid Client. At present, strategic client computing is an important aspect of future growth plans for enterprises to minimize coast associated with hardware, security and deployment.
Green IT
To make our environment clean, businesses need to do away with the usage of harmful materials. Use of recyclable products (such as paper), judicious use of resources should be promoted. E-documents, video conferencing form a part of an organization's green initiatives.
Mobile Applications
Needless to say, cell phones have started governing our lives. From a child to an old person, we all depend on mobiles for our needs- business or personal. SmartPhones are expected to enter the lives of close to 1 billion people by the end of 2010.
Cloud Computing
It involves service providers offering a wide array of IT-enabled services to consumers. The success of this model can largely be ascribed to its cost-effectiveness and absence of CapEx (hardware& software). India, however, has still a lot to catch up. A major research firm points that spending on IT cloud services would grow threefold, reaching $42 billion by 2012. This roughly would account for 9% of revenues in five key market domains. Biggies like IBM, Dell, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Sun Microsystems have already announced their dominance in Cloud Computing.
Client computing
A client is a type of application or computer system that accesses a remote service on a server (which is another computer system) via a network. It can be categorized on the bases of Local Storage and Local Processing as Rich (Fat) Client, Thin Client and Hybrid Client. At present, strategic client computing is an important aspect of future growth plans for enterprises to minimize coast associated with hardware, security and deployment.
Green IT
To make our environment clean, businesses need to do away with the usage of harmful materials. Use of recyclable products (such as paper), judicious use of resources should be promoted. E-documents, video conferencing form a part of an organization's green initiatives.
Mobile Applications
Needless to say, cell phones have started governing our lives. From a child to an old person, we all depend on mobiles for our needs- business or personal. SmartPhones are expected to enter the lives of close to 1 billion people by the end of 2010.
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