Demand for WiMAX, thin provisioning on rise

MUMBAI, INDIA: Contact centre business process outsourcing (BPO), Linux on PCs, WiMAX 802.16e-2005 in India, mini-notebooks, video telepresence, thin provisioning, and open source development tools are the technologies at the peak of inflated expectations during 2009.

Whereas, technologies like SaaS, service orientated architecture (SOA), customer relationship management (CRM) and business intelligence (BI) tools have tipped over the peak and will soon experience disillusionment among enterprise users.

This is according to The Gartner Hype Cycle for ICT in India 2009 that provides a cross-industry perspective on the technologies and trends that IT leaders should consider as they develop emerging-technology portfolios

The Gartner Hype Cycle for ICT in India 2009 is the company’s most comprehensive to date, featuring 31 technologies and topics such as massive array of idle disks (MAID), fibre channel over Ethernet (FCoE), video telepresence in India, x86 server virtualization, and software as a service (SaaS) in India

Diptarup Chakraborti, principal research analyst, Gartner, said: “The mobile telephony revolution that has transformed connectivity in India will continue to evolve with further penetration in the next two years of ultra low-cost mobile devices. With these devices and a continued proliferation of connectivity into semi urban and rural parts of India, this could be a powerful force to reduce the "digital divide," which is one of the biggest social issues within India."

"It will also be a significant enabler for the increasing number of enterprises looking to commercially benefit from the large "bottom of the pyramid" opportunity in India. Beyond this, the (re)emerging enterprise resource planning investment wave in India, this time expanding out to the small or midsize business (SMB) segment as well, holds out the hope of an increase in productivity among Indian enterprises, making them more competitive with their local, and increasingly global, competition,” he added.