Public CIO - December 2008/January 2009 - (Page 44)

FASTGOV Charting the Year Ahead Understanding the Zeitgeist of the public-sector IT community. BY PAUL W. TAYLOR Gartner Strategic Technologies Virtualization Cloud computing/computing fabric Servers — beyond blades Web-oriented architectures Enterprise mash-ups Specialized systems Social software/networking Unified communications Business intelligence Green IT There are probably analogies to make between this trio and Billboard’s pop, rock and country charts, but I’ll leave the labeling to you. Countdown veterans Casey Kasem, Rick Dees and Ryan Seacrest have made careers of intoning significance to placement and movement on the charts. So what does our amalgamated top 30 tell us about the Zeitgeist of the public-sector IT community? 2008 5 8 7 6 10 2 1 2009 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ith 50 years of tracking the country’s hot 100 hits behind it, Billboard magazine now maintains more than a dozen charts for popular music — genre by genre, week to week. So it should not be too much for this page to maintain three charts about public-sector IT, year to year. What makes these charts interesting is the rise and fall of the hits, particularly those that hit the top 10 with a bullet — that is, entered the charts at a high position, or climbed rapidly, or is regarded as being on steep trajectory. It can be equally useful to watch those on the decline, especially those that drop like a spent shell casing. The genres of most interest here are strategic technologies — as determined by Gartner — and priority technologies compiled by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO), plus a policy-related chart originated by NASCIO on priorities. W Security is still a priority, but there may be a risk of losing interest Looking across the three charts, virtualization tops both the Gartner and NASCIO technology lists. Virtualization tops the NASCIO technology chart for the second year running, just as consolidation defends its No. 1 finish on the NASCIO priority list. Consolidation and virtualization rock steady even as green IT (with which both are often paired) bounced widely, falling from No. 1 to No. 10 on the Gartner chart, even as it hit No. 6 with a bullet on the NASCIO technology charts. Budget and cost control, enterprise resource planning (ERP) strategy, servers, single-purpose specialized systems, Web 2.0, business intelligence, transparency and mobility also hit at least one chart with a bullet — business NASCIO Priority Technologies, Applications and Tools Virtualization Document/content/e-mail management Legacy application modernization and upgrade (ERP) Networking, voice and data communications, unified communications Web 2.0 Green IT technologies and solutions Identity and access management Geospatial analysis and GIS Business intelligence and analytics applications Mobile work force enablement 2008 1 8 5 7 2009 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6 4 [44] [44]

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Public CIO - December 2008/January 2009 Contents Contributors Introduction Tense Times Insider Threat Twenty and Counting Labor of Love Putting Process Into Play Crossover Appeal FastGov CIO Central Security Adviser CIOs Pluck BlackBerry Phones From the Field Straight Talk

Public CIO - December 2008/January 2009

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