The Impact of Cloud Computing on IT Enterprises

Most of the software outsourcing, utility computing, automation, hosting applications, etc., are no longer enough to put pressure on average IT professionals due to the economic downturn. However, cloud computing will be an emerging force that will become a threat to IT awareness. According to the agency forecast, as time goes by, cloud computing technology will become more commonplace and begin to replace what those average IT staff can do. IDC estimates that global IT spending on cloud services will tripling in 2012 to as much as $ 42 billion. Gartner even predicted that cloud computing will have a tornado-like impact on IT staff, unlike e-commerce.

So, cloud computing in the end how and when the impact of IT companies and IT jobs it? General IT staff to take what measures to protect themselves or their careers?

The Dilemma of IT Jobs in the Age of Cloud Computing

The first is do not panic. Ben Pring, an analyst with Gartner, said that any massive shift to cloud computing will take 10 years or more. "Now I see SaaS and cloud computing as an extension, not an alternative, to the corporate network."

Solution provider Terrosa, which helps software vendors use their software through cloud computing, said Kim Terry, president of the company, said: "In most businesses, it will take five years before anyone prepares to swap the company's financial system for cloud computing time."

James Staten, principal analyst at the Forrester Research Center, said cloud computing will create jobs that in the short term cloud computing has actually created a number of IT jobs. The reason is that cloud computing is now mostly used in new applications. Even if you rely on cloud service providers for back-end work, "you still need to know something about their architecture, but you do not need to manage it yourself."

Mark McDonald, vice president of the Gartner Group, said: "A real percentage of the work that takes on infrastructure services, monitoring, and data center operations will be for cloud service providers like Google, Amazon and Telcos." However, The economies of scale that result from a large number of highly efficient automation and virtualized service architectures do not require too many build jobs from cloud service providers. "Only a few employees may be needed for every 1,000 orders."

"But if you get one of these jobs, in many cases it's a job that requires less skill and more emphasis on managerial and administrative skills, perhaps just a day for busy conference calls and mediation. You have very little technical skill, "said Carole Schlocker, chairman of IT Human Resources Services at iSpace." Even management capabilities are limited because most major decisions have been made in service contracts. "

Even if you really try to get a job at a cloud service provider, your place of work may not be where you live. Terrya Terry pointed out that most of this work will be far away from the metropolis. "Instead of running a small data center in Washington or New York, cloud providers will choose more convenient locations from a convenient point of view, such as near large power plants or near power plants or in smaller, less expensive cities."