Technology Forecast: Technology trends and outlook: Summer 2009: Cloud computing and evergreen IT: PwC

Technology Forecast: Summer 09

Recent issues

	Spring 2009 This issue of explores new technologies that create and manage enterprise data semantics.

	Winter 2009 The future of enterprise applications and their role in creating a foundation for agility in an era of accelerating change.

Message from the editor

	Legacy to Evergreen IT Technologies behind Cloud Computing bring new economics and benefits to IT. The goal should be Evergreen IT, not cloud computing per se.

Features

	The real promise of cloud computing Evergreen IT delivers flexibility and lower cost. Finally, enterprises can shake off the burdens of their legacy systems.

	Enabling Evergreen IT Technologies to create separation in the IT vertical stack and to automate IT operations form the basis for pursuing Evergreen IT.

	A CIO’s road map to adopting Evergreen IT There’s no shortcut to make your data center and IT infrastructure legacy free and agile, but you can map a sensible route to that goal.

Departments Acknowledgments Subtext

Interviews

	Evergreening IT at Bechtel Geir Ramleth of Bechtel describes how cloud computing principles transformed IT at Bechtel.

	Using virtualization to break vertical integration in IT silos Simon Crosby of Citrix explains how virtualization creates separation in the IT vertical stack.

	Modeling to automate data center operations Kirill Sheynkman of Elastra describes the benefits of modeling IT environments in the data center.

	Standardization and mass customization of IT Erich Clementi and Irving Wladawsky-Berger of IBM discuss how cloud computing represents a new business and computing model.

	From build-to-order IT to configure-to-order IT Russ Daniels of EDS, an HP company, discusses how cloud computing is creating opportunity in industry ecosystem interactions.

	Abstracting IT closer to business value Doug Hauger of Microsoft explains how cloud computing abstracts IT resources for developers.