Aside from infrastructure improvements, two of the areas that are driving many conversations in my neck of the woods are social media and a focus on mobile applications. The social aspect is interesting, as companies start to look at how to utilize internal "social networks" as a tool for interaction and collaboration within the organization. Of course, there is still traditional social media such as Facebook, Google+, Twitter, etc., utilization of which is more or less mandatory at this point. Mobile is a many headed hydra for IT. Not only is there the need to optimize websites for smartphones/tablets, there is the move to BYOD, which is here to stay whether IT likes it or not. Of course, there will still be focus on Big Data and Cloud Computing, as pretty much every survey over the past two years has suggested. I think more companies will be boosting their IT spending this year, with so many signs pointing to increasing economic growth in the US.