Gartner's top 10 strategic technologies for 2008

1. Green IT
The effort to reduce power consumption, carbon emissions and other environmental impacts of IT

2. Unified Communications (UC)
Integration of voice, e-mail, instant messaging, applications, IP-PBX, VoIP, voice-mail, fax and conferencing

3. Business Process Management

4. Metadata Management
Management of diverse information repositories on diverse media by referencing to the location of the data

5. Virtualization 2.0
Also tied into #1 Green IT

6. Mashups & Composite Applications
Combining data and/or functionality from more than one source into a single integrated web application

7. Web Platform & WOA
Software as a service (SaaS) and REST(Representational State Transfer)-styled SOA. This could be a topic for another blog so I'll it at that.

8. Computing Fabrics
Evolution of server design to allow several blades to be merged operationally, operating as a larger single system image that is the sum of the components from those blades

9. Real World Web
Real world objects with local processing and networking abilities like GPS navigation

10. Social Software
Injection of Web 2.0 offerings into the enterprise

Chart toppers

It's that time of the year when everyone who matters (and some who don't) start producing top-10-of-the-year lists. Here is a series of my favorite top-10 lists, starting with Symantec's Top 10 Internet Security Trends of 2007.

1. Data breaches
2. Windows Vista security concerns
3. Spam
4. Professional attack kits like WebAttacker and MPack
5. Phishing
6. Exploitation of trusted brands
7. Bots
8. Web plug-in vulnerabilities
9. Sale of vulnerabilities
10. Virtual machine security

The clear trend is the professionalisation of cybercrime.