Gartner predicts that by 2012, 20 percent of businesses will own no IT assets - in no small way due to cloud-enabled services. This is one of the top predictions from 2010 to showcase the trends and events that will change the nature of business today and beyond.
"Several interrelated trends are driving the movement
toward decreased IT hardware assets, such as virtualization,
cloud-enabled services, and employees running personal desktops and
notebook systems on corporate networks.
The need for computing hardware, either in a data center or on an
employee's desk, will not go away. However, if the ownership of
hardware shifts to third parties, then there will be major shifts
throughout every facet of the IT hardware industry. For example,
enterprise IT budgets will either be shrunk or reallocated to
more-strategic projects; enterprise IT staff will either be reduced or
reskilled to meet new requirements, and/or hardware distribution will
have to change radically to meet the requirements of the new IT
hardware buying points."
See Gartner for details
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