I just sat through a presentation about the four big trends in IT that even the polite struggle to describe as dull, but it did get me thinking. Incumbent technology vendors (pretty much like incumbents everywhere) have too much invested in the present and will hence sell incremental as disruptive. IBM once believed sincerely in the future of mainframes, big studios still insist on the glorious road ahead for DVDs now that the laser is blue, predicting the future is always fraught with problems. Armchair sniping is all well and good, but shouldn't I be in a position to predict better? Time to get my somewhat ample behind off the couch then, and stick my neck into the future. Here, I go - my four predictions for IT trends, at least as far as careful, conservative corporates are concerned. Cloud will vaporise IT Today's businesses are all concerned about the technology underlying the cloud, and how to adopt it. However, cloud isn't really a technology - its a method of deli
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