Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Gartner Predictions for 2012: More Cloud, Consumerization, Loss of IT Control

By Ann Bednarz, December, 2, 2011, CIO.

Network World — IT budgets and responsibilities are moving out of the control of IT departments and into the hands of others, thanks to trends such as consumerization and cloud computing, Gartner says in its vision for 2012 and the coming years.
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That means, to be successful, IT organizations will have to excel at relationship management and be adept at coordinating more widely distributed activities, according to Daryl Plummer, managing vice president and Gartner fellow.
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