ORLANDO, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Gartner, Inc. analysts today highlighted the top 10 technologies and trends that will be strategic for most organizations. The analysts presented their findings during Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, being held here through October 16.

Gartner defines a strategic technology as one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years.

Factors that denote significant impact include a high potential for disruption to IT or the business, the need for a major dollar investment, or the risk of being late to adopt.

These technologies impact the organization’s long-term plans, programs and initiatives. They may be strategic because they have matured to broad market use or because they enable strategic advantage from early adoption.

The top 10 for 2009 are:

Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Severs beyond blades, Web-oriented architectures, Enterprise Mashups, Specialized Systems, Social Software and Socail Networking, Unified Communications, Business Intelligence, and Green IT.

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