INFRASTRUCTURE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL®

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PRACTICE

EMERGING TECHNOLOGY ROADMAP THROUGH 2013

Created by the Vision for Infrastructure Working Group
100+ Companies Collaborated to Roadmap the Adoption of 58 Emerging Technologies

Anticipated Year of Mainstream Adoption

50% Adoption Threshold

No Plans St
k or
or
to Deploy
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WiMax
e

e
2012+
N

Appliance-Based
Replication

4G Mobile Data 2011

Mesh Solid State Storage

Networking Storage Cluster File Systems
IPV6 RFID Systems 2010
Fibre Channel Over
Distributed Ethernet
Voice-Over
Virtual Tape
WiFi (VoWiFi) Content Addressable
802.1 1 n 2009 Archive
Desktop (WiFi) Thin Provisioning
Virtualization
(Client-Hosted) Data
Netbooks
mputing

64-Bit Deduplication Power and

Application Cloud:
Computing Cooling Infrastructure-
Virtualization
Ajax Management as-a-Service
Tablet
Desktop Tools
PCs Cloud: Software-
Virtualization
as-a-Service
(VDI) RSS Bundled Server/
Serv
o

Storage
Linux on Podcasts
C

Windows 7 Social Virtualization

the Desktop
Networking
er

er

Desktop Video
-Us

Telepresence
Unified
d

Communications Cloud: Platform-

n

Blade PCs as-a-Service

E

Virtual Worlds
Mashups
Tagging

Collaboration

Enterprise Value Deployment Risk

Enterprise value represents the potential benefit that can Deployment risk represents the likelihood of operational
be delivered. failure.
®

High Value Medium Value Low Value Minimal Value High Risk Medium Risk Low Risk

Value is assessed by the factors below: Risk is assessed by the factors below:

■ Effect on Capital Expenditure ■ Effect on Availability ■ Marketplace Maturity ■ Architecture Integration

■ Effect on Performance ■ Functionality Benefits ■ Management Tools ■ Support Skills
■ Effect on Operational ■ Scalability ■ Security
Expenditure

Mainstream by 1H 2009
Storage Resource Management Tools Wide Area SAN Storage Virtualization 4GB/8GB Fibre Channel SAN
UNIX Virtualization Enterprise-Class Linux Virtual Server Management Tools Blade Servers
Multithreaded Processors Blogs Wikis Webcasts
Mobile Applications Smartphones Video-Over IP WAN Optimization
3G Mobile Data 10 GB Ethernet Voice-Over IP (VoIP)

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