Now that CES is over, we are all anxiously waiting for the thousands of gadgets showcased to hit the market. Of the eighty or so tablets that were displayed, there are three soon to be released tablets that I am especially excited about.

Although CES is a conference for Consumer Electronics, the annual tradeshow is known for being the launching ground for numerous technologies that have ended up at the enterprise level. Notables include the VCR in 1970 and the Commodore 64 in 1982. So what new technology can organizations expect to see launched at CES 2011?

The cover story in the December 20, 2010 issue of InformationWeek is titled “The Morphing Budget,” which gives an in depth overview of how organizations are reorganizing their IT budgets for 2011. According to the magazine’s research, 66% of the organizations they surveyed outsource less than 20% of their IT operations (well actually 52% outsource between 0-20%, 14% of the organizations do not outsource at all).

I remember shooting the breeze with a couple of the staff members at my alma mater’s IT department, where I was previously employed, and asking “whatever happened to the Google Chrome OS?” This conversation happened over the past summer. We collectively thought that Android was replacing what Google Chrome was supposed to be.

We’ve rounded out the Top 7 Trends in Information Technology for 2011. From Cloud Computing to HTML5, the New Year will bring many new challenges as well as numerous opportunities, especially for small and mediums sized businesses.