David Cearley, Gartner vice president, has been analyzing business and technology trends since Gartner started publishing the annual Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends. In the Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2015 the following the top ten technology trends that organizations cannot afford to ignore in their strategic planning processes all rely on some type of interaction with cloud services.
- Computing everywhere
- Internet of Things
- 3D printing
- Advanced, pervasive, and invisible analytics
- Context-rich systems
- Smart machines
- Cloud/client computing
- Software-defined applications and infrastructure
- Web-scale IT
- Risk-based security and self-protection
Why is this important for Higher Education and especially Polytechnic institutions like British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)? We are moving rapidly into a global marketplace that is functioning in the Cloud. Unless we are preparing our students for this type of a future we are robing them of tomorrow.
This means that technology driven institutions like BCIT must not only embrace these technologies we must use these technologies as the foundational infrastructure that we build our significant learning environments upon.
