What are the Impacts of Internet in the future development of Enterprise IT?

Internet developments continuously have an impact both on businesses and on IT. Nowadays the evolution of the World Wide Web towards a mature Web 2.0 and later towards the expected still theoretical Web 3.0 change the way businesses organize and operate. Enterprise 2.0 became a concept of its own, shaped by the emergence of Web 2.0 concepts and standards, including Cloud Computing, Everything-as-a-Service and the Semantic Web. Furthermore, the evolution of mobile technology, whose course is set to enrich internet capabilities, going from 3G towards a still conceptual 4G having full VoIP and WiMAX wireless broadband, makes the already popular prediction regarding the convergence of the PC industry with the Mobile industry a fact for the near-future. Wireless broadband in itself is a great step towards internet mobility opening new opportunities for businesses. In parallel with mobile internet development, the developments in the area of open-source mobile OS boost the potential of mobile applications opening new opportunities for Business IT. All such developments therefore continuously influence the way businesses operate and allow brand new Enterprise IT solutions to emerge.

Internet as a global infrastructure will mature mainly having an optical fiber at OSI Level 1 and still use IPv6 as a standard protocol. Moreover 3G and Wi-Fi should merge to one greater technology. What we see today is that information takes more time to be processed from a core2Duo laptop than to download from the Internet. This eventually will converge but it is an indicator of the quality of Internet and the lack of efficiency at using computing power.

So far, Internet was a mere ‘upload’ of silo-ed data. What seems to drive the next era is the scheme of interconnected data. For example, we can use linked data in order to create manage and visualize relations. A possible Google search would produce not a mere list of web pages but linked data, probably sorted by relevance or by trustworthiness of source.

Enterprise IT should tame this potential by allowing isolated datacenters to be able to share and extend valuable information. Moreover, new Internet – oriented / dependent products shall emerge making a new internetworked market, that will require management and innovation. With the emergence of Web 3.0, which means having applications relatively small, peaces together, data in the cloud, pc or phone , fast and customizable apps. Low barrier entry