Shaping the Future of Information Technology In Context of the Rapid Changes

•   March 3,2015
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The global market has witnessed a rapid growth in the usage and demand for the Information Technology. The IT industry is growing rapidly due to the ongoing technological advancements and economical shifts across various regions all around the globe and it is very essential for all the business organizations to observe and understand these trends thoroughly.

The emergence of technologies such as mobile devices, cloud-computing, virtual offices/telework, virtualization and Alternative Productivity Applications are building the future of IT industry. The early adoption and usage of the aforementioned industrial trends would help the businesses to gain more competitive advantage.

Mobile devices is the primary tool in today’s networking world that the business organizations use in order to communicate to each other. The functionality of mobile devices, mainly smart phones, has gone through some major changes in terms of applications and features. Reports state that the growing usage of tablet computers and smart phones is leading to the replacement of conventional computers to mobile devices and it is expected that the mobile devices market would conquer a major share of the latter.

Cloud-based computing solutions are assisting the business organizations to control and monitor their business database like never before and organizations from all across the globe are adopting this new technology. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and other cloud based computing solutions are gaining prominence among the large as well as small and medium scale business organizations. The economic recovery would help the cloud-based computing solutions market growth.

Virtualization is another revolution in the field of information technology, where businesses can completely eliminate their server farms and also cut down the associated operating cost. With virtualization and cloud-computing gaining prominence, business organizations have started to realize the benefits of operating the virtual offices environments. Traditional offices would be replaced by remote network structures, allowing the businesses to reduce overheads and increase productivity.

Apart from all the above mentioned IT trends and developments Alternative Productivity Applications are also helping the business organization to bring back the productivity from the employees post the economic downturn. Unified communications, business intelligence and videoconferencing applications with new and improved solutions would help the employees to work in remote office environments.