7. Cloud Computing

The convergence of cloud and mobile computing will continue to promote the growth of centrally coordinated applications that can be delivered to any device.

In the near term, the focus for cloud or client will be on synchronizing content and application state across multiple devices and addressing application portability across devices. In the future, games and enterprise applications alike will use multiple screens and exploit wearables and other devices to deliver an enhanced experience.

8. Web-scale IT

Web-scale IT is a pattern of global-class computing that delivers the capabilities of large cloud service providers within an enterprise IT setting.

The first step toward the Web-scale IT future for many organizations should be DevOps? bringing development and operations together in a coordinated way to drive rapid, continuous incremental development of applications and services.

9. Risk based security and protection

Organizations will increasingly recognize that it is not possible to provide a 100 percent secured environment. Security-aware application design, dynamic and static application security testing, and runtime application self-protection combined with active context-aware and adaptive access controls are all needed in today's dangerous digital world.

This will lead to new models of building security directly into applications. Perimeters and firewalls are no longer enough; every app needs to be self-aware and self-protecting.

10. Software declared applications

Software-defined networking, storage, data centers and security are maturing. Cloud services are software-configurable through API calls, and applications, too, increasingly have rich APIs to access their function and content programmatically.

To deal with the rapidly changing demands of digital business and scale, computing has to move away from static to dynamic models.