What are Gartner predictions for IT ?

Gartner, Inc. has highlighted the key predictions that herald long-term changes in approach for IT organizations and the people they serve for 2010 and beyond. Gartner's top predictions for 2010 showcase the trends and events that will change the nature of business today and beyond.
The Research indicates that 20 percent of businesses will dump all assets of IT.
By the shift of companies toward Cloud Computing and its services, there should be a great decrease in the need of staffs and also great hardware which lead to shrinkage of costs.
But it's not just Cloud Computing that is driving a movement toward "decrease IT hardware assets". Also Virtualization and employees using personal desktops and laptops reduce the need for company-owned hardware.
The report doesn't say exactly how a world in which 20 percent of IT organizations own no hardware will be able to deal with rapidly growing data storage needs. IDC has found that the amount of digital information created and replicated worldwide is growing at 60 percent each year, so presumably cloud-based storage services will help the IT world cope with this problem.

And a few more of key predictions by Gartner, Inc :

- The leader of Social Networking will be Facebook by 2012.

- By 2014, most IT business cases will include carbon remediation costs.

- In 2012, 60 percent of a new PC's total life greenhouse gas emissions will have occurred before the user first turns the machine on.

- By 2015, more than $250 billion will be spending Worldwide in Internet Marketing.

- Mobile Phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web Access device in 2013.

* At all, I think the shrinkage in the costs is the greatest benefit of Cloud Computing. Because, therefore we can divide the remained budget in more programs. Or also it could be used for public works or advertising. Wherever we use the remained budget, is better than spending it for storage or the salary of overplus employees.

What do YOU think ?