Gartner recognises key strategic technologies as – just about everything that can pay for research

October 20, 2009 by Mark T Littlewood

Gartner releases its list of ‘Key Strategic Technologies for 2010’.

“Gartner defines a strategic technology as one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years. Factors that denote significant impact include a high potential for disruption to IT or the business, the need for a major dollar investment, or the risk of being late to adopt.” From press release, Gartner.com

The technologies are:

  • Cloud Computing
  • Advanced Analytics
  • Client Computing
  • IT for Green
  • Reshaping the Data Center
  • Social Computing
  • Security – Activity Monitoring
  • Flash Memory
  • Virtualization for Availability
  • Mobile Applications

So I guess Gartner wants to do paid research for any company that fits into any of these categories. Anything not included?

One response to “Gartner recognises key strategic technologies as – just about everything that can pay for research”

  1. Bryan Carter says:
    October 21, 2009 at 1:40 PM

    They are all at it. Someone just sued Gartner for over $1 billion on grounds that they favour companies who pay them money.

    http://marklogic.blogspot.com/2009/10/gartner-sued-over-magic-quadrant-for.html