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10 technology trends that will define enterprise architecture in the 2010s

By | October 14, 2011, 3:14pm PDT

Summary: In terms of technology trends shaping enterprise architects’ jobs over the next three years, its all about cloud, cloud, cloud and mobile.

Forrester Research’s Brian Hopkins and co-researchers recently assembled a list of the top 20 trends that will define (or redefine) enterprise architecture between now and 2014 (10 top technology trends and 10 top business trends).

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In terms of technology trends over the next three years, its all about cloud, cloud and mobile. Here is Forrester’s top 10 list:

1) Elastic application platforms emerge to handle variable scale and portfolio balancing. “A new generation of elastic applications is emerging to help

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jorwell 20th Oct
@giff@...

As we know creating this kind of research or marketing language can be hard work.

To ease the burden I have created a tool which generates this kind of XML (eXcitable Marketing Language) automatically.

So at the touch of a button you can get:

"The service oriented, hot pluggable, multi-threaded messaging engine enables an optimized, complex, distributed application integrating the agile, rich, event-driven infrastructure."

or

"A parallel, lightweight, service oriented paradigm provides the multi-threaded, flexible, event-driven model utilizing the enriched, web enabled, object oriented abstraction layer."

I am pleased with the results but am obviously concerned that I may attract patent complaints from Oracle, as apparently they wrote the whole Fusion Middeware website using such a tool.
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RE: 10 technology trends that will define enterprise architecture in the 2010s
GGPSmith 14th Oct
Under the hood of all these trends sits a lot of flash-based memory appliances, future storage-tiering, and enabling software: Without the extra speed and persistence of flash hitting enterprise IT as seamlessly as any disruptive technology ever has or will, now and on-going for the next 2-3 years, not one of the above trends could happen at all. much less make the top ten list.
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Buzzword bingo
symbolset 14th Oct
Leveraging enterprise synergies into vertical architectures with a single pane of glass - to whalesong and chant!

If you ain't virt yet, it's time to do that. Virt Virt I/O demands SSD now. We go 10G on the network. That's about it for the next five years. After that consumers are at 10G peripheral interconnect, SSD's are terabyte or larger, and Memristors are shipping. Maybe optical processors will be new. For sure a processor will have at least five layers of silicon by then, and maybe the first 32GB RAM. Predicting farther out seems foolish.

What you need to know about cloud: Servers serve users. If on the server side a server running a service is replaced with a cluster IP address that customer requests are routed to, and the cluster launches machines on demand to serve dynamic need with that service, that's cloud. The network distributes the load. That's really all cloud is. It doesn't matter if the launched machines are real or virtual, local or global, except in terms of IT security and control. The easiest way to do this is just to make all your apps web apps, because the web app distribution platform has this load distribution built in.

If I have to sit through one more "Cloud" presentation from a NIC vendor I'm going to have to wrestle him to the floor by the throat.
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My thoughts exactly !!!
wackoae 14th Oct
@symbolset This entire article was about nothing but buzz words.
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Its an extravagant claim.
peter_erskine@... 15th Oct
This is an American blog - I don't think we're seeing this enthusiasm for cloud elswehere. In fact I've seen a recent article titled "Cloud not suitable for Business" or words to that effect.
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Needs moar buzzwords
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spdragoo@... 17th Oct
@giff@...

You just gave me a mental image of marketing execs shambling & shuffling through the office, moaning out "buuuuuuzzzwooooordss..."
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jorwell 20th Oct
@giff@...

As we know creating this kind of research or marketing language can be hard work.

To ease the burden I have created a tool which generates this kind of XML (eXcitable Marketing Language) automatically.

So at the touch of a button you can get:

"The service oriented, hot pluggable, multi-threaded messaging engine enables an optimized, complex, distributed application integrating the agile, rich, event-driven infrastructure."

or

"A parallel, lightweight, service oriented paradigm provides the multi-threaded, flexible, event-driven model utilizing the enriched, web enabled, object oriented abstraction layer."

I am pleased with the results but am obviously concerned that I may attract patent complaints from Oracle, as apparently they wrote the whole Fusion Middeware website using such a tool.

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