Top IT predictions 2009

I just came across a nice post by my former colleague Valentin Zacharias titled “The year of the cloud”. Finally Jeremy Rifkin’s year 2000 prediction of a Age of Access seems to come near - clearly at least for computing in data centers.

Valentin nicely summarizes the main topics in IT that people predict in the Web:

• Cloud Computing
• Regaining Control: Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC)
• social media for the enterprise and Enterprise2.0 technologies (think knowledge management, customer service and marketing), where our startup innoraise invited quite some usefull technology on top of well-known social functionalities
• Green IT
• Business Intelligence for everyone
• Increased use of IT for eGovernment
• Identity Management and Identity Portability
• Mobile Web breakthrough
• Powerful graphics chips looking for new work