Gartner's Trends List for 2012

Posted by Kenneth Ronkowitz on

Now that we are midway through 2012, the Gartner Symposium gives us the IT research firm's tech trends for the year. As usual, it's a mix of emerging and existing technologies.

According to campustechnology.com, the top ten includes:

    The use of media tablets and other small-form-factor computing devices;

    The continuing explosion of mobile-centric applications and interfaces;

    The growth of app stores and marketplaces;

    Contextual and social user experience;

    The "internet of things";

    Next-generation analytics;

    The proliferation of big data;

    The smarter use of in-memory computing;

    The recognition of the value of extreme low-energy servers; and

    The continued acceptance of cloud computing.


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