Make your 08 Tech Trends list & check it twice! With the holidays right around the corner and 2008 not far behind, CIOs are determining which key IT initiatives will take flight in 2008. Verizon Business has identified ten business technology trends that are driving those New Year's resolutions!

Here's Verizon Business' list of ten hot trends for 2008:

1. Continued Globalization
2. Securing the Extended Enterprise
3. Global Greening
4. Virtualization and On-demand Computing (a.k.a. Computing as a Service)
5. Telepresence
6. Outsourcing/Out-tasking
7. Smartphones and Managed Mobility**
8. Unified Communications
9. Work-Life Balance
10. The CIO as Business Strategist

** Professionals will call on their smartphones to work harder in 2008, relying more and more on mobile e-mail, integrated calendars and contacts lists while away from the office. As a result, businesses will spend more on mobile devices and will need to manage and secure numerous devices as part of an overall global enterprise mobility solution. Managed Mobility will become the next frontier, helping businesses track, monitor, secure and manage the mobile devices accessing their corporate networks.

To read the full list, click here.

See you in 2008!

Posted by Brooke Van Hatten at Friday, December 21, 2007