The year ahead
By Asavin Wattanajantra in Editorial
Posted in Security, Predictions, Microsoft, Social Networking, iPhone, Apple on
Let me introduce myself. My name is Asavin Wattanajantra, I’m the new staff writer at IT PRO and I am very excited to have joined the team here to write news and features for the business and IT decision makers.
Longer term, I also hope to get my teeth stuck into the multimedia side of things such as pod casting and video.
The new year has seen a new start for me career-wise, so I’d like to offer up my predictions of what 2008 has in store for the industry…
Personally, my feeling for this year is that security (as always) is going to be big on everyone’s agenda. It’s a huge issue that companies, including the government given recent high-profile data breaches, are going to have to deal with. Last year saw a number of almost unbelievable security breaches, with personal details ‘disappearing’ to unknown destinations. Breaches like this should not have happened and must not be allowed to happen again, particularly considering that the government is planning on pushing ID card plans further this year.
Malware is also becoming more and more of a problem. This is something Windows Vista must be able to contend with if it is going to make the same impact as Windows XP has. This isn’t the only problem that Ballmer et al will have to deal with as Bill Gates finally leaves and Microsoft’s remaining leadership team begin the process of awakening the slumbering giant.
Apple will also have a big part to play this year, and although in my opinion it is doubtful that 2008 will be dominated by a product in the way the iPhone hogged the limelight in 2007, Steve Jobs is still likely to set much of IT’s future agenda.
Social networking and innovations like Facebook are also ones to watch this year, although I think that it remains to be seen what the future holds for Zuckerberg’s baby and whether it can keep up with the growing band of pretenders, including Cisco, who I predict is likely to have a big role in consumers’ access to social media this year.
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