Gartner on Tuesday outlined its top 10 technologies for 2011 that will give technology execs the most bang for their budgets. How many of these technologies will be a true hit?

Carl Claunch, an analyst at Gartner, said at the research firm’s Symposium conference in Orlando that things like sustainability, data center overhauls and virtualization were dropped. Here’s Gartner’s 2011 list, why those technologies were chosen and a few observations.

The new list:

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