Top 10 Strategic Areas for Technology in 2009

 

Top 10 Strategic Technology Areas for 2009(thanks to Gartner, Oct 2008)	Related Microsoft Approach
1.Virtualization	All lineup(Thin-Application-Server)
2.Cloud Computing	Azure service BPOS
3.Servers: Beyond Blades	Hardware oriented
4.Web-Oriented Architectures	Silverlight(RIA) ASP.NET AJAX ASP.NET MVC
5.Enterprise Mashups	MOSS / PopFly
6.Specialized Systems	Hardware oriented
7.Social Software and Social Networking	MOSS / Live
8.Unified Communications	GW+IM+Web conferencing
9.Business Intelligence	Microsoft BI
10. Green IT	Microsoft Environment