Cloud computing leads IT practitioners to data mining

Cloud computing has provided data access, storage, and applications to organizations around the world, dramatically increasing flexibility and saving costs. As cloud computing emerges, it practitioners will soon lead the way to data mining, a new study predicts, which means companies have more flexibility and lower costs – but it also undermines job security and breeds many contradictions in the industry.

Commissioned by Dell and Intel, the "Evolutionary Labor Report" (Part One) aims to identify and explore the future trends and themes of workplaces and practitioners and further discover the role of science and technology. As part of the overall trend – the report refers to "crowdsourcing services" – the vast majority of freelancers and teams will complement and replace the dedicated IT department, who will complete the Just-in-time production task as a piecemeal process.

Moreover, the traditional working hours of nine to five and the computer working mode on the desk will fade away. Instead, employees have the flexibility to schedule time and work through many computing devices at any time. Employee performance will be evaluated by performance rather than time.

The report notes that this evolution has potential benefits, such as increased flexibility and cost reduction mentioned earlier. In theory, organizations can assign items to appropriate employees as needed. For example, for a company with multiple divisions around the world, you can quickly find and contact the best people to deal with the support desktop issues of the Denver Remote Office, the London Division security vulnerabilities, or the disruption of the Dubai database without expensive phone charges. In addition, this model allows organizations to quickly add, express opinions, and allow developers to complete projects that are not completed.

In addition, this evolution means that, as organizations hire overseas employees, more people can contribute their expertise through round-the-clock service and through crowdsourcing. "Universal access to ICT and cloud computing is increasing, so allocating multiple tasks and services will make it easier to attract inputs from groups through crowdsourcing," the report said. ”

The report justly points to the potential drawbacks of this extensible JIT model for it workforce. From a technical standpoint, companies need to devise ways to provide the various platforms that employees and contractors want to use. It also faces the challenge of assigning, tracking, and managing work from a large number of different employees.

In addition, the report identifies potential security issues that result from the disclosure of resources, data and projects to people outside the organization. In addition, IT managers are forced to accept new technologies that generate compatibility and security issues faster than ever before.

The report suggests that, in an organizational position, IT managers need to adapt to the formation and management of teams with foreigners-sometimes they represent different countries and cultures-work together in one task and dissolve only when the project is completed. This approach makes it increasingly difficult for companies to create a united workforce and share common values and goals.

The report says that in terms of job security, future workplaces may herald bad prospects for IT professionals. As full-time salaried jobs become increasingly scarce, IT staff feel they are competing with people in the world. Many workers will have strong resistance, and in their view outsourcing and globalisation are hurting their interests. From the perspective of opportunity and income, the gap between the excellent staff and the worst employees will be widened, resulting in huge income disparities, thus triggering social unrest.

The progress of cloud computing, mobile computing and collaboration tools is still a double-edged sword in the internet age. In an ideal world, these technologies provide an opportunity for organizations to take advantage of the best and brightest ideas in the world, and to drive innovation as quickly as possible day after day. And because it-related tasks are reasonably outsourced based on contracts and needs, significant costs are saved.

But there is also the risk that the CEO will become too much of a basic interest in the audience to view the knowledge worker only as a one-time commodity and then buy the application developer and network Manager as a regular server. The organization chooses the cheapest it workforce with a penny and a penny: employees have limited incentive to perform the tasks described in the contract. Worse, they will find themselves more prone to trespassing, corporate espionage and data theft, because their labor force also sees profits as more important than anything else. Resentment also extends to the advocates of increasingly frustrated social movements, who express their views through the Occupy movement throughout the country or beyond.

In view of this situation, the company leaders will be through fair wages and incentives to hire IT experts, motivate workers to fully contribute their skills and knowledge, to help enterprises flourish and innovation, enterprises will receive tangible and intangible dual benefits. After all, speed alone cannot make an organization emerge, and implementing the most efficient and intelligent working methods is the real key to success.

(Responsible editor: Liu Fen)