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CiTalk IT news and updates to put your business ahead of the rest. March 2010. CITOC - To Efficiency and Beyond. www.citoc.com

A Look into the Future: 1 in 5 Businesses Will Ditch IT Assets by 2012 By 2012, 20% of businesses will be cloud based with no physical IT assets, according to Gartner, a world leader in information technology research and advisory services. The research house attributes this trend to several driving forces, including virtualization, cloud-enabled (Web-based) services and employees running personal desktops and notebook systems on corporate networks. So what does this mean for your business? As your organization makes plans to navigate the economic recovery and prepare for the return to growth, there will be a significant turn in the power of IT.

'The need for computing hardware, either in a data center or on an employee's desk, will not go away,' Gartner said. 'However, if the ownership of hardware shifts to third parties, then there will be major shifts throughout every facet of the IT hardware industry. For example, enterprise IT budgets will either be shrunk or reallocated to more-strategic projects; enterprise IT staff will either be reduced or reskilled to meet new requirements, and/or hardware distribution will have to change radically to meet the requirements of the new IT hardware buying points.' If this prediction is true, we are at the beginning of an explosion in cloud-based services managed. Businesses will need trusted providers to offer various services on behalf of the enterprise. Of course, not all businesses will be able to take this road, but a substantial number of industries can and will. More information about Gartner's predictions can be found on the Gartner Predicts Web site at www.gartner.com/predicts.

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