Forbes 2013 - whats next?

Global future according to Forbes

Prediction #1: Wireless semi industry goes through further consolidation and potential exits.

Prediction #2: Intel licenses ARM’s Cortex technology.

Prediction #3: Samsung goes captive in modems.

Prediction #4: Apple launches a MacBook Air with iOS functionality.

Prediction #5: Telco infrastructure industry will undergo further restructuring, exits and consolidation.

Prediction #6: Huawei signs an enterprise distribution agreement with IBM.

Prediction #7: Handset industry sees further exits, M&A and restructuring.

Prediction #8: Apple to launch tailored “mini” iPhone in mid-2013.

Prediction #9: Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 stutter.

Prediction #10: Apple launches smart TVs in the 2013 second half.

Future of the cloud according to Forbes

1. More hosted private clouds
2. Clouds and mobile becomes one
3. New PC's - personal cloud
4. More cloud services brokerages
5. The rise of industry-specific and community clouds
6. Cloud talent shortages looms
7 .“Cloud” as a defining term fades

Top 10 Strategic technologies for 2013

       1.    Mobile devices – By 2015 – over 80% of handsets will be smart phones.

       2.   Mobile applications + HTML 5 – Through 2014 – JavaScript performance will push HTML5 and the         browser as a mainstream application development.

       3.       Personal cloud – will be center of digital life

       4.       Internet of things – By 2020 – will be over 30 billion connected things, with M2M connectivity .

        Key technologies – embedded sensors, image recognition and NFC.

      5.       Hybrid IT and Cloud computing – Changes the role of IT .

      6.       Strategic Big Data – Organizations need to focus on non traditional  data types and external data   sources. Hadoop and NoSQL gain momentum. Big Data will meet social.

Social graph, intent graph, consumption graph, interest graph and mobile graph. Single corporation data warehouse – dead. Multiple system tied together – Integration is the key.

      7.       Actionable analytics – Clouds + packaged analytics + big data accelerates in 2013.

      8.       Mainstream in-memory computing – boost performance + response time.

      9.       Integrated ecosystem 

      10. Enterprise APP stores – Most organizations will deliver mobile apps to workers.

Sources
Forbes - cloud computing
Forbes Technology Predictions

Lets discuss future predcitions for IT and software

According to Gartner:

By Year-End 2014, three of the top five mobile handset vendors will be Chinese.
By 2015, big data demand will reach 4.4 million jobs globally, but only one-third of those jobs will be filled.
By 2017, 40 percent of enterprise contact information will have leaked into Facebook via employees' increased use of mobile device collaboration applications.
Through 2014, employee-owned devices will be compromised by malware at more than double the rate of corporate-owned devices.
By 2016, wearable smart electronics in shoes, tattoos and accessories will emerge as a $10 billion industry




CISCO

By 2029, 11 petabytes of storage will be available for $100—equivalent to 600+

years of continuous, 24-hour-per-day, DVD-quality video.

In the next 10 years, we will see a 20-time increase in home networking speeds

By 2013, wireless network traffic will reach 400 petabytes a month

By 2020, a $1,000 personal computer will have the raw processing power of a

human brain

By 2030, it will take a village of human brains to match a $1,000 computer.

By 2050 (assuming a global population of 9 billion), $1,000 worth of computing

power will equal the processing power of all human brains on earth.

Today, we know 5 percent of what we will know in 50 years. In other words, in 50

years, 95 percent of what we will know will have been discovered in the past 50

years.

By 2020 worldwide, the average person will maintain 130 terabytes of personal data

(today it is ~128 gigabytes).

By 2030, artificial implants for the brain will take place.

By 2020, universal language translation will be commonplace in every device

With IPv6, there will be enough addresses for every star in the known universe to

have 4.8 trillion addresses 

CorbinBall

 New indoor positioning options will provide better event and exhibition indoor way finding and mapping.


Sources
Cisco
Gartner predictions
Corbinball