| While visiting various campuses we have kept talking | | | | effective Metadata for the data itself is becoming |
| about how students should follow the top technology | | | | critical for effective data management. Retrieving the |
| trends in the Industry, identify the direction IT is heading | | | | data in a more effective way, finding related data are |
| and prepare for the changes in the Industry. Given that | | | | all aspects that Metadata critically impacts. The key |
| this is now identification season for BE Projects | | | | focus areas in terms of Metadata management is |
| across colleges i thought it would be a good time to | | | | around, abstraction and semantic reconciliation of |
| talk about the hottest trends in technology. Keep in | | | | metadata to support reuse, consistency, integrity and |
| mind that some of these areas could make for a very | | | | share ability. |
| doable and interesting college project, others are | | | | Virtualization 2.0: Virtualization ins the process where |
| typically out of reach, just because it might too much | | | | an existing single hardware can be converted multiple |
| hardware and expertise that most of us would not | | | | virtual machines, each running their own OS and |
| have at this point. All the same it is a good idea for | | | | applications effectively able to optimize on hardware |
| you to be aware of the trends. The list below is based | | | | resources. Virtualization technologies as a process can |
| on the Gartner report for 2008. | | | | improve IT resource utilization and increase the |
| GreenIT: The focus of Green IT is expected to have a | | | | flexibility needed to adapt to changing requirements |
| significant impact on the way we use and plan for IT | | | | and workloads. The focus of virtualization going |
| computing technology. The fundamental focus is the | | | | forward is based on automation technologies - with |
| study and practice of using computing resources more | | | | service-level, policy-based active management - |
| efficiently. Power reduction and simplification of IT | | | | resource efficiency can improve dramatically, flexibility |
| infrastructure form the core of any solution to address | | | | can become automatic based on requirements, and |
| this. Other key aspects of a green IT solution would | | | | services can be managed holistically, ensuring high |
| cover aspects like disposal of electronic waste, | | | | levels of resiliency. |
| telecommuting, virtualization of server resources, | | | | Mashup & Composite Apps: Web mashup combines |
| conserving energy use, thin client solutions. | | | | data from more than one source into a single tool, the |
| Unified Communications: It is estimated that almost | | | | data could be integrated from multiple web applications |
| 20% of all enterprises have migrated to IP telephony | | | | like Google Maps, Web Feeds, or other APIs from |
| and expect that in the next 3 years a majority of all | | | | providers like Google, Microsoft, YouTube and other |
| enterprises will depend on IP based telephony | | | | such providers. The Mashup site itself should provide a |
| infrastructure and in addition focus on integration of all | | | | different service using the different data sources that |
| the current communication infrastructure with an IP | | | | have been used to build the mashup. |
| based backbone. What can you expect? More and | | | | Web Platform, Software as a Service, SOA: |
| more devices that are currently used for | | | | Software as a service (SaaS) is becoming one of the |
| communication like the traditional land phones and PBX | | | | top models for architecting and delivering services in |
| systems will either get replaced by IP based phones | | | | which applications are hosted by a vendor or service |
| and digital systems or get replaced by alternate | | | | provider and made available to customers over a |
| mechanisms like Desktop Communicators which will | | | | network, typically the Internet. SaaS is becoming an |
| get more mainstream for all voice communication. | | | | increasingly prevalent delivery model as underlying |
| Business Process Modeling: Business process | | | | technologies that support Web services and |
| modelling is the process of representing both the | | | | service-oriented architecture (SOA). |
| current business processes and the future business | | | | Social Software: With the overall growth of social |
| processes to be. For example in a typical insurance | | | | networking applications has brought the social web to |
| company, to handle a claim, an insurance claims | | | | the center of attention across the world wide web. |
| process, taking as input a scanned image of a paper | | | | The next wave of social network adoption is |
| claims form, would pass the form electronically from | | | | expected to be drive by integration of these social |
| the mailbox (or worklist) of one claims specialist to that | | | | networks into other commercial applications and |
| of another, mimicking the traditional movement of | | | | building more "social network aware" applications. |
| interoffice mail from desk to desk. This would a set of | | | | Two other areas that are being talked about are |
| business processes that need to be followed. | | | | Computing Fabric and the Real World Web. We will |
| Metadata Management: Metadata management is a | | | | possibly talk about this in a future post. Check out |
| critical part of an organizations information | | | | Peepaal Campus for BE Projects, MCA projects and |
| management. Metadata is the description of the data | | | | ideas around top technology trends. |
| itself. For example Metadata for a word document | | | | Do let me know your thoughts and comments on |
| could be the author information, description of the | | | | these technology trends, post your comments against |
| document and content category. As the volume of | | | | this blog. I would also be keen to know if any bright |
| data keeps growing across the world the need for | | | | ideas that spring to your mind in each of these areas. |