Gartner Hype Cycle Highlights Challenges for Cloud, Big Data

Grazed from MidSize Insider. Author: Shawn Drew.

This year’s edition of the Gartner Hype Cycle shows some big moves on the horizon for cloud computing and big data. Midsize businesses that need these technological advantages to stay competitive have to be ready to stay the course as these technologies are scrutinized.

Gartner Hype Cycle 2014

Gartner recently released the 2014 edition of its Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies report, which looks at a range of technologies that are either in their infancy or in the process of changing the face of business technology, and analyzes how industry hype is affecting the perception of the technology that year. Once a technology makes it through the entire cycle, it either becomes obsolete or it becomes an accepted, trusted aspect of the overall technology landscape…

While the report covers the hype cycle for dozens of technologies, ranging from smart robots to gamification to brain-computer interfaces, its view on two of the largest technological advances in recent years is worth a closer look. Big data is just past the peak of its hype and moving quickly into the "trough of disillusionment," in Gartner’s view. This quick move through the hype peak occurred because there is finally consistency in the number of approaches to this technology and because advances to the technology appear to be additive rather than revolutionary…

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