Gartner Highlights "Virtualisation" as Key Prediction for IT Organisations in 2010
Cloud Computing will become so pervasive that by 2012, one out of five businesses will own no IT assets at all, the analyst firm Gartner is predicting.
Gartner's prediction was part of a release that highlights nine key predictions that will affect IT organisations and users this year and beyond. Gartner’s top prediction for 2010 and beyond is:
“By 2012, 20 percent of businesses will own no IT assets. Several interrelated trends are driving the movement toward decreased IT hardware assets, such as virtualization, cloud-enabled services, and employees running personal desktops and notebook systems on corporate networks. The need for computing hardware, either in a data center or on an employee's desk, will not go away. However, the ownership of hardware will shift to third parties....”
Press release STAMFORD, Conn., January 13, 2010 —