2013 - The Trends to Come

Beckoning 2013 - The Trends to Come
Technology predictions and trends for the coming year are captured here, as heard around the world from IT practitioners, fellow technology bloggers, enterprise experts, and analysts.  
The New Now Model
Users want everything now. They want simple, seamless solutions on demand, and they want technology to both simplify and speed up their lives. For the enterprise, this means a new world of fast, customized distributed IT. It means cloud computing, integration of the digital world across the enterprise, and analyzing data in milliseconds to produce insightful, relevant, and actionable information that has the potential to determine the fate of companies.
Says one blogger: The days of deploying heavy expensive software, as well as deployment cycles taking months and years, are over. With today’s shoestring IT budgets and the need to integrate quickly, we will continue to see the implementation of new deployment models that introduce deeper cost savings and new business opportunities within the enterprise.
The Dawning of Distributed IT
Becoming more important and impactful, distributed IT will continue to allow enterprises to quickly deploy and install new software, as well as provision new services, throughout the entire global network in minutes. Distributed content delivery will be personalized and customized to end users, and the delivery will be seamlessly integrated to BYOD devices. 
E-Everything
First it was ecommerce; now "e" means so much more. Think e-books, e-learning, e-publishing, e-wallets, e-banking. Others may refer to this explosion as the “Internet of Connected Things”.  Ultimately, much of what we do in our lives and at work can be done online through the interconnectedness of the enterprise ecosystem and the world. 
Cloud Communities
For one, anticipate a future where enterprises will be salivating for talent with cloud expertise.  In a profession that has seen its share of outsourcing and downsizing, cloud computing is creating great opportunities. The next likely trend is cloud communities. Here, providers focus on providing cloud services targeted at vertical-related industries, where they can effectively meet the demands of security, processes, storage, access, and compliance requirements for each like-minded market.
Discovering the Treasure Trove
A big trend in 2012, expect Big Data to unleash a real ROI in 2013 and create new jobs. Like cloud computing, many analysts see big opportunity and a talent shortage to meet this growing demand. A big part of big data is being driven by social media and the e-everything world.  These technologies continue to unleash a treasure trove of information that is now “mineable” and, through analytics, will yield real results for the enterprise.