The need to unclutter services is also running up against mobile and ubiquitous computing, while the adoption of mobile devices was a leading theme at Computerworld's Premier 100 conference
Platform continues to move ahead, as Unix market slowly declines. The 64-bit Itanium chip was introduced 10 years ago as a challenger to the RISC systems that dominated enterprise shops at the time
Companies have been consolidating their IT resources, which is also spurring hardware buying. A goal is to make their IT organizations more flexible, and by doing so gain capability to use resources globally