Top ten technologies for 2008

Everybody loves a top ten list. Also at the Gartner conference, consultants identified the Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2008. Green IT tops the list. IT is still responsible for 2 percent of all carbon releases. Unified communications will be an important technology. "In a world in which all the information is digital and carried on IP, the opportunity and advantages of carrying it on a unified infrastructure are becoming obvious," the analysts stated in a slideshow presentation. Not surprisingly, business process management will be important as will metadata management, which serves as the foundation for information infrastructure and is found throughout IT systems: in service registries and repositories, Web semantics, configuration management databases (CMDB), business service registries and in application development. Other technologies include virtualization 2.0, mashups and composite applications, web platform and WOA, or web-oriented architecture (a version of SOA geared toward Web applications), computing fabrics, real world web and social software.

For more information on the technologies:
- see the article in Networkworld