In the “Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2008″ report, Gartner has cited cloud computing, green IT and social-computing platforms as the technologies that are set to be widely accepted by enterprise over the next two to five years. All of these technologies are at the peak of what the report calls their “hype cycle”, a term Gartner began using in 1995 to describe the human response to technology, from over-enthusiasm at the beginning, through a period of disillusionment with the technology, to an eventual understanding of the technology’s relevance and role in a market or domain.
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