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&lt;p&gt;While maybe better known for its strategy portfolio, Deloitte is an increasingly relevant player in the ever-expanding field of IT consulting.  And like any good consultancy, Deloitte&#39;s tech consulting unit likes to back up its sales pitch rhetoric by publishing research reports on its chosen specialty.  Enter &lt;em&gt;Tech Trends 2011: The natural convergence of business and IT&lt;/em&gt;, published today by Deloitte Consulting.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Headlining this year&#39;s annual report are a couple of top-5 lists of the most significant techie trends of the year; essentially, what&#39;s hot and what&#39;s not for CIOs around the world.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As for what&#39;s hot, Deloitte consultants call these trends &quot;Disruptive Deployments&quot;: new prospects in the tech sector that Deloitte thinks businesses should embrace while still blossoming.  Though &quot;not necessarily disruptive&quot; in a literal sense, these double-Ds &quot;present significant new opportunities to improve business processes, rethink operations or even enter into new business models.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The DDs: Applied Mobility (or &#39;apps&#39;, as Apple and everyone else calls them); Capability Clouds (or &#39;the cloud&#39;, as IBM and everyone else calls it); Real Analytics (returning to the nuts and bolts of good ol&#39; modeling and analysis); Social Computing (using the &quot;digital exhaust&quot; of social networking to mine for valuable info); and User Engagement (delivering better &quot;usability&quot; for IT customers).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What&#39;s not hot, then?  Well, it&#39;s the (Re)Emerging Enablers of course!  These are Disruptive Deployments of years gone by, high-tech trends that &quot;many CIOs have spent time, thought, and resources on in the past.&quot; In a phrase, they&#39;re so yesterday.  But not all is lost: CIOs can revisit these trends, Deloitte says, thanks to the rise of new(er) technologies that make them relevant again.  &quot;These familiar topics deserve another look due to specific factors in the technology or business environment,&quot; the report says.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Enablers: Almost Enterprise Applications (better than the cloud?); CIOs as Revolutionaries (Che Guevara in suspenders); Cyber Intelligence (John Wheeler is not dead!); End of Death of ERP (newer not always better); and Visualization (revitalized by social networking).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bill Briggs, director at Deloitte Consulting and a co-author of the report, wraps it up for us foolish non-CIOs with eloquence and grace.  &quot;It&#39;s evident that the next 18 months will be pivotal for widespread adoption of technologies such as cloud, social computing, analytics and mobile technologies,&quot; he says.  &quot;CIOs should keep ahead of these trends to help generate top returns not just of IT, but the business of the business.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For more information:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt; Deloitte: Technology Trends 2011&lt;/p&gt;

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