Asia Pacific IT Market Predictions 2011

This document provides vendor strategists with an analysis of the key trends in the Asia Pacific IT market in 2010 and previews the top trends that will shape the local market in 2011. This document highlights the increase in the cloud computing momentum, the mobile devices and applications helping overcome the digital divide in emerging markets, and the increasing role of virtualization on the desktop among the trends for 2010. This report names IBM/Netezza as the Acquisition of the Year, and identifies NTT Data as Asian IT Company of the Year in 2010. The report identifies everything-as-a-service as the IT Trend of 2010 and predicts that HTML 5 will boost an application-centric web across a wide range of devices, consumerization of IT will drive major changes in usage patterns and expectations, and information security will become a key enterprise priority in 2011 among other trends.