Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2015

1. Computing Everywhere - Serving the needs of the mobile user in diverse contexts and environments, as opposed to focusing on devices alone
2. The Internet of Things - Manage, Monetize, Operate and Extend, these four basic models can be applied to any of the four “Internets"
3. 3D Printing - Worldwide shipments of 3D printers are expected to grow 98 percent in 2015
4. Advanced, Pervasive and Invisible Analytics - Analytics will take center stage as the volume of data generated by embedded systems increases
5. Context-Rich Systems - Ubiquitous embedded intelligence combined with pervasive analytics will drive the development of systems
6. Smart Machines - Deep analytics applied to an understanding of context provide the preconditions for a world of smart machines
7. Cloud/Client Computing - Cloud and mobile computing will continue to promote the growth of centrally coordinated applications
8. Software-Defined Applications and Infrastructure - Software-defined networking, storage, data centers and security are maturing
9. Web-Scale IT - A pattern of global-class computing that delivers the capabilities of large cloud service providers within an enterprise IT setting
10. Risk-Based Security and Self-Protection - All roads to the digital future lead through security but, it cannot be a roadblock that stops all progress

Source: Gartner
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