By Guy Currier
Cloud computing and new mobility technologies gain focus as IT executives look beyond cost-cutting to new productivity and growth opportunities.
CIOs can be forgiven for feeling a bit jaded about the kind of chart shown on the right-hand page of this story. After all, how often have you heard that a new technology was going to be a huge trend this year? And how often did that actually pan out?
Most trends take far longer to develop than vendors, analysts or editors predict, so you get the same prediction, year after year: This Technology Is Really Going to Be Big This Year.


