Five Hot Trends in 2008

December 31, 2007 from CIO Update “What we’re interested in is not what might happen in 2008, but what is already starting to happen. The following trends are here.

1. Data leaks and IP Theft - Even as viruses grow more dangerous and zombie botnets flood us with spam, security experts are turning inward. The real threat is from within…

2. Virtualization - Until recently, virtualization has been focused on data-center optimization. With virtualized servers, hardware utilization goes up and flexibility increases. At the same time, costs associated with hardware and ongoing maintenance drop…

3. Software as a Service - SaaS has slowly been expanding beyond the mid-market, and since it dovetails well with other trends like virtualization and utility computing, 2008 could be a breakout year…

4. The Mobile Workforce - If your concerns about mobility are still centered on rogue access points and weak wireless encryption, you’re not keeping up…

5. Windows Vista - The question here is what should you do about Vista…

180 View - We would add web based applications to the list. We see a steady move away from Fat Windows client/server user interface (FUI) to a thin web-based user interface (TUI). Just as DOS applications that did not convert to Windows did not survive, the same will hold true for FUI applications that don’t convert to TUI. We made up the FUI and TUI acronyms and apologize to those of you fed up with 3 letter acronyms.