{"id":27761,"date":"2012-03-14T14:59:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T18:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=27761"},"modified":"2012-03-14T15:01:17","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T19:01:17","slug":"gartner-five-megatrends-as-personal-cloud-replaces-pc-era-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2012\/03\/14\/gartner-five-megatrends-as-personal-cloud-replaces-pc-era-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"Gartner: Five megatrends as personal cloud replaces PC Era [Taylor]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkincloud.com\/gartner-reports-new-pc-is-personal-cloud\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Gartner: Five megatrends as personal cloud replaces PC Era<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from talkingcloud.com by Brian Taylor<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt (<span style=\"color: #800000;\">emphasis DSC<\/span>):<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Steve Jobs called it the post-PC era. Gartner has another term for today\u2019s world of personal computing meshed with mobility and the cloud. Indeed, A new Gartner report is dubbed \u201cThe New PC Era: The Personal Cloud.\u201d Gartner contends that the era of the PC as the hub of business computing will end by 2014. The personal cloud will replace it, bringing along with it flexibility in choosing devices, enhanced user satisfaction and greater worker productivity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">A word of caution from Gartner: Businesses will have to \u201cfundamentally rethink how they deliver applications and services to users.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Megatrend No. 1:\u00a0 Consumerization \u2014 You Ain&#8217;t Seen Nothing Yet<br \/>\nMegatrend No. 2:\u00a0 Virtualization \u2014 Changing How the Game Is Played<br \/>\nMegatrend No. 3:\u00a0 &#8220;App-ification&#8221; \u2014 From Applications to Apps<br \/>\nMegatrend No. 4:\u00a0 The Ever-Available Self-Service Cloud<br \/>\nMegatrend No. 5:\u00a0 The Mobility Shift \u2014 Wherever and Whenever You Want<\/p>\n<p><em>Also see:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gartner.com\/it\/page.jsp?id=1947315\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Gartner Says the Personal Cloud Will Replace the Personal Computer as the Center of Users&#8217; Digital Lives by 2014<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Gartner Special Report Examines How Businesses Must Meet Consumers&#8217; Cloud Expectations in Order to Win Customers<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">STAMFORD, Conn., March\u00a012, 2012\u2014 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The reign of the personal computer as the sole corporate access device is coming to a close, and by 2014, the personal cloud will replace the personal computer at the center of users&#8217; digital lives, according to Gartner, Inc.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gartner.com\/technology\/research\/personal-cloud\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gartner Consumer Research: Personal Cloud<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gartner: Five megatrends as personal cloud replaces PC Era &#8212; from talkingcloud.com by Brian Taylor Excerpt (emphasis DSC): Steve Jobs called it the post-PC era. Gartner has another term for today\u2019s world of personal computing meshed with mobility and the cloud. Indeed, A new Gartner report is dubbed \u201cThe New PC Era: The Personal Cloud.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,208,45,206],"tags":[659,19,591,676],"class_list":["post-27761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-development","category-cloud-based-computing-apps","category-computer-science","category-trends","tag-career-development","tag-cloud-computing","tag-computer-science","tag-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27761"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27766,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27761\/revisions\/27766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}