Gartner: 10 Critical Tech Trends For The Next 5 Years

At a Gartner Symposium IT Expo session this morning, analyst David Cappuccio laid out 10 “critical”  trends and technologies impacting IT for the next five years. (David Lettermanapparently was not available; at least they found another Dave to do the honors.) Before revealing the list, Cappucio provides a little context: In the last minute, there were 204 million emails sent, 61,000 hours of music listened to on Pandora, 20 million photo views and 3 million uploads to Flickr, 100,000 tweets, 6 million view and 277,000 Facebook logins and 2 million plus Google searches. He repeats a...

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Here is a great link for small business startups in Indiana!

http://www.isbdc.org/faq/finding-government-contract-opportunities/

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Google’s Top Five Data Center Secrets (That Are Still Secret)

Steven Levy is the first reporter to ever set foot in a Google data center. And in telling the tale, he has a wonderful way of making you feel like you were there too. “A sign outside the floor dictates that no one can enter without hearing protection, either salmon-colored earplugs that dispensers spit out like trail mix or panda-bear earmuffs like the ones worn by airline ground crews,” he writes. “We grab the plugs. Kava holds his hand up to a security scanner and opens the heavy door. Then we slip into a thunderdome of data….” But as Levy points out near the end of his piece,...

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