Gartner: Cloud Computing & Virtualization - Top CIO 2011 Wish Lists

Gartner's recent CIO survey, which was conducted from September 2010 to December 2010, found that CIO's budget predictions for 2011 are flat globally. New IT models like cloud computing and virtualization will force CIOs to re-imagine IT and could lead to CIOs reducing costs and drive growth amid flattened budgets, according to Gartner...

Gartner said 3 percent of CIOs currently have the majority of their IT environments running in the cloud or on SaaS technologies, but over the next four years that is expected to jump to 43 percent.

"The resource realities indicated in the 2011 CIO Agenda Survey raise the urgency and importance of adopting new infrastructure and operations technologies, such as cloud services and virtualization", Mark McDonald, GVP, Gartner Executive Programs, said. "These technologies were selected by CIOs the most often and are the top-two technologies for 2011 and are well-suited for this budget reality, as they offer similar service levels at lower budget costs."