Monday, October 25, 2010

Jobs phased out by the Cloud

Is your job secure from being phased out by cloud computing?  Cloud providers will be responsible for most of the technical requirements, so where does that leave you?

Most technical issues in computing will soon be handled by the hypervisors, load balancers, etc. on the suppliers end. However, each supplier will have to be monitored and managed through service contracts.

Infoworld has specified some role shifts based on Forrester and Gartner:

IT jobs of the future will be highly administrative with a focus on capacity planning and contract management – Gravitant, Inc.

Quick tools to help you prepare for this shift are available here

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