Gartner: line between personal, business cloud use getting blurrier.

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Gartner Inc. predicts that the importance of the personal cloud will continue to grow and that those responsible for building the digital workplace will be increasingly challenged as the personal cloud continues to evolve and intersect with IT initiatives.

"The personal cloud is the collection of content, services, and tools that users assemble to fulfill their personal digital lifestyle needs across any device. Each user's personal cloud is unique and evolving, as the user's daily needs change and as vendors and products come and go," said Stephen Kleynhans, research vice president at Gartner. "Looking forward, we see continued upheaval and challenges from the blending of personal and corporate digital tools and information within each user's life."

According to Gartner, the next wave of the personal cloud will be shaped by two key trends: 1) increased access to personal information and 2) increased intelligence applied to the user experience and against the user's information.

"The rate of change is accelerating as new technologies like Windows 10, ubiquitous sensors, wearables, and smart machines alter the landscape and further blur the lines between consumer and enterprise computing," Kleynhans said. "By 2018, 25 percent of large organizations will have an explicit strategy to make their corporate computing environment similar to a consumer computing experience."

In its report "The Evolving Role of the Personal Cloud in the Digital Workplace," Gartner specifies three areas where the next wave of the personal cloud will influence corporate environments:

  1. Virtual personal assistants (VPAs) will increasingly become the anchor point for users' personal clouds and have broad...

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