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Gartner: Virtualization is top IT priority!

Virtualization is the number-one strategic technology for 2009, Gartner said at its Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Fla. this week.

Gartner analysts highlighted the top 10 technologies and trends it predicts will be strategic for most organizations, defining "strategic technology" as having the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years.

Taking it a step further, Gartner defines "significant impact" to include factors such as high potential for disruption to IT or the business, the need for a major dollar investment, or the risk of being late to adopt.

Gartner said the technologies impact an organization's long-term plans, programs and initiatives. They may be strategic because they have matured to broad market use or because they enable a strategic advantage from early adoption.

"Strategic technologies affect, run, grow and transform the business initiatives of an organization," said David Cearley, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner. "Companies should look at these 10 opportunities and evaluate where these technologies can add value to their business services and solutions, as well as develop a process for detecting and evaluating the business value of new technologies as they enter the market."


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  1. AnonymousFri Oct 17, 04:41:00 PM GMT+2

    It seems obvious to me that Gartner would say this, but our recent survey and analysis says it isn't true. We did a survey at Interop NY, just as the depth of the financial crisis was becoming obvious, and what we found was that the top priorities for IT were getting back to basics and reducing management costs. Virtualization actually lost steam versus the survey we did last year. You can see the results of the survey at: http://tinyurl.com/4ss234

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