IT Trend Predictions for 2009

CIO Insight has announced their top 10 disruptive IT trends for the coming year.

New Media
Augmented Reality
Social Networks
Information Transparency
Web Waves
3D Printing
Molecular Computing
Cloud Computing
Semantics
Web as Reasoning Engine

Gartner has also announced their top 10 strategic technologies for 2009:

Virtualization
Cloud Computing
Servers — Beyond Blades
Web-Oriented Architectures
Enterprise Mashups
Specialized Systems
Social Software and Social Networking
Unified Communications
Business Intelligence
Green IT

There’s some overlap between the Gartner and CIO Insight lists (when you figure “Web Waves” on the CIO Insight list equates with “Business Intelligence” on the Gartner list).  We can bet that no list of predictions will be dead on.  The Gartner technologies have better explanations and straightforward categories …let’s hope clarity provides more direction (better understanding and informed leadership) and becomes a better predictor than something that’s much more ambiguous and uses some odd rather odd labels for these trends.