2011 IBM Tech Trends Report

For a mountain top view of the what's shaping corporate IT make sure and checkout the 2011 IBM Tech Trends Report. The trends are business analytics, clouds, mobile, and social.  Nothing new really, the usual statistics about business types catching up with the consumer web, but at the end it does throw out an interesting theory:

The upward growth trends in business analytics, mobile computing, cloud and social business suggest the possibility of a strong link between these technology areas — that the adoption of one technology drives the demand for another.