IT Trends 2009

Baseline magazine lists 10 IT trends for 2009. There is considerable overlapping among some items and the ranking can debated but it's not a bad list:

1. Software as a Service (SaaS)
2. Virtualization
3. Enterprise mobility
4. Energy-efficient data centers
5. Security, risk and compliance
6. Social networking
7. Web 2.0
8. Document management and e-discovery
9. Project management and project portfolio management
10. Web and video collaboration

This list captures the general trends, beyond enterprise computing - the main thrust is still the convergence on the Internet. The convergence includes moving traditional activity into a web context and the birth of new ,web based, means of interaction between people and storage of information.

The convergence is increasingly apparent and accelerating for computer devices. The traditional division between cell phones and laptops is blurred by the iPhone and the G1 on the cellphone side and the netbooks on the laptop side.

The delivery of computer capacity is also increasingly delivered over the network and cloud computing is now delivering more server computing power and storage over the Internet.