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Cloud computing is the latest hype in IT: Gartner
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Thursday, 13 August 2009, 22:13 IST |
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Bangalore: Research and analysis firm Gartner has released the Hype Cycle report for 2009, which evaluates the maturity of 1,650 technologies and trends in 79 technologies. The report which covers new areas this year defines that the Cloud computing is the latest growing trend in the IT industry, stating it as 'super-hyped'. The other new areas include data center power, cooling technologies and mobile device technologies.
The Hype Cycle report provides information on key technologies and trends in a specific technology, topic, geographic region or industry domain. "Although cloud computing is about a very simple idea, consuming and delivering services from "the cloud," there are many issues regarding types of cloud computing and scope of deployment that make the details not nearly so simple. In other words, it is a subject that is ripe for a Gartner Hype Cycle," said the report.
The e-book readers and cloud computing are expected to hit the peak of the 'inflated expectations' in another two to five years. Social software tools because of the web 2.0 and the explosions of the sites like Twitter which made microblogging a standard feature in the social networking platforms, are said to have passed the 'inflated expectations'.
"Technologies at the Peak of Inflated Expectations in 2009 include cloud computing, e-books, internet TV, while social software and microblogging sites have tipped over the peak and will soon experience disillusionment among enterprise users," said Jackie Fenn, Vice President, Gartner Fellow and Co-author of "Mastering the Hype Cycle".
Virtual worlds and service-oriented architecture (SOA) are also among the probable for getting in the mainstream in the next five years.
"Longer term, beyond the five-year horizon, RFID, 3-D printing, context-delivery architectures, mobile robots, and human augmentation will be transformational across a range of industries," said Fenn.
The 2009 report is the largest among the reports released by Gartner as the company has been generating the Hype Cycles since 1995.