Apr 06 2012
Windows XP and Office 2003, the top ten IT issues
General Assembly of the Symposium / ITExpo, research firm Gartner, detailed forecast once a year, 10 infrastructure and operational trends. The data center will shrink as users turn to transport services, end support for Microsoft office 2007 products for many people, just a matter of time because of the support for Window XP and Office 2003 will end in April 2014.
Here is a very important IT issues Gartner a few years ago:
1, virtualization
Virtualization applications continues to expand, the problem is still topped the list.Cappuccio said: “The future data center will be fully virtualized”. This trend, including desktop virtualization, especially those with families can use to enter more than one device to the desktop.
2, large data
In the next five years, the amount of data expected amount of data will grow by 800%.80% of the data is unstructured data. This will speed up the application of good management techniques, such as data accumulated over the technology, and better use of data tools, how to deal with these sort out the useful data, Cappuccio, said.
3, energy and green IT
This problem has been in the IT list for years, but he still equally important. This includes improved automation and monitoring,
4, unified communications and cooperation
The company wants to seek to meet the needs of younger employees, which is very important; for a new generation of employees, the short message is the way they interact.
5, lateral thinking
Employees must know how to connect things together. Technology and the company will be vertical.
6, open source collaboration
Unified internal communication at the same time is to use an external network cooperation.
7, XP, and Office 2007 support an end to transfer from Windows XP.
Gartner said that independent software developers could stop this year to test new software on Windows XP. 2012, which will be fully carried out.
8, cloud computing and data center intensive
Due to the increase in the user not to create a new database, the data center densification will continue to develop.
9, cloud computing
The user will transfer more services to cloud services. Cappuccio said that in the next five years, data centers will shrink.
10-based computing
Integration Server-based computing and networking systems.
