Cloud computing will have a huge impact on job creation

Absrtact: Recently, a new study by IDC shows that spending on public and private it cloud services will create nearly 14 million jobs around the world during 2011-2015. The research commissioned by Microsoft also found that cloud-driven it innovation is expected to be an annual

Recently, a new study by IDC shows that spending on public and private it cloud services will create nearly 14 million jobs around the world during 2011-2015. The study, commissioned by Microsoft, also found that cloud-driven it innovation is expected to generate 1.1 trillion of dollars in new business revenue each year.

"Cloud computing will have a huge impact on job creation," says Shenwey, chief cloud computing strategist at Microsoft Greater China: "As a revolutionary technology, cloud computing will reduce costs, spur innovation and create new jobs and skills globally." ”

One way cloud computing improves corporate innovation is to liberate IT managers and put them into operation on key projects. "We've deployed Microsoft Office 365 and Windows Intune for a customer," said Carol Reid, sales director of Microsoft's key cloud solutions partner at Agile It, headquartered in Santiago. Later, the customer's COO said he wanted to arrange interviews with the IT director and explore relevant strategic applications. Before that, the IT director was as busy as a fireman in dealing with everyday trivial matters, and now he can devote himself to a strategic project that really drives the business forward. ”

In addition, many enterprises use the cloud to improve interaction with customers and partners. "One of the trends we see is that companies use cloud collaboration software to not only promote in-house collaboration," says Aaron Nettles, co-founder and CEO of Microsoft's Seattle Vorsite Company, another cloud computing partner. Also improved interaction and information sharing with partners and suppliers. As a result, cloud computing not only maintains technology, but also leverages technology to drive business revenue growth. "In response to growing calls from customers for cloud computing, Nettles plans to double the number of employees this year," he said. "We are like crossing a threshold. Now, the customer no longer asks ' cloud is right ', but asks ' when we can deploy the cloud '. ”

Underwriters Laboratories (UL) is a global enterprise that uses cloud to innovate, and UL provides safety testing and certification for various products. In recent years, UL bought a number of companies to expand the scope of services. The use of Office 365,ul frees up new servers from adding and maintaining, enabling rapid technology integration. Whether it's a big takeover in China or a small acquisition in Australia, UL is now able to consolidate new employees in a matter of weeks before it usually takes months. UL Chief information Officer Christian Anschuetz said: "I no longer need a group of contractors or transfer project managers from other projects." Now we are able to integrate the internal resources and the strength to make them more focused on business growth in order to provide customers with better service. The value that Office365 brings to us, I can't describe it in words. With Office 365 software and close cooperation with relevant people around the world, UL has promoted the way of interacting with customers. By providing office 365,ul to customers through the Internet to work with customers to faster resolution of security testing issues. To extend these technology offerings to more customers, Anschuetz plans to increase the number of SharePoint engineers by twice times. "Is there a job opportunity? "We need more human resources to use this technology in order to satisfy and delight our customers," he said. ”

Steadily moving towards cloud computing

According to IDC's findings, cloud computing accounted for about half of the 14 million jobs created during 2011-2015, with large enterprises and small businesses.

While small businesses offer the vast majority of jobs in most parts of the world, their level of informatization is usually lower. At the same time, IDC predicts that small and medium-sized enterprises will adopt cloud services more quickly than big ones, as many big companies are constrained by existing investments. "Given the impact of these two factors, large and small businesses are about half the size of newly created jobs," said John Gantz, IDC senior vice president who wrote this white paper. ”

The study also found that the number of jobs created by cloud computing is in some way proportional to the size of each industry, but not absolute. Industries with a high proportion of small and medium enterprises, such as professional services and retailing, will play an important role in driving cloud computing applications. In the banking sector, the transition to the public cloud is slowing, in the interest of security concerns, but may increase the adoption of private it cloud services. Overall, the three major industries expected to create the most cloudy-related jobs are communications and media (2.4 million), banks (1.4 million) and discrete manufacturing (1.3 million).

According to the study, emerging markets will create a higher proportion of jobs, particularly in China and India. During 2011-2015, China and India are expected to create nearly 6.8 million cloud-related jobs, partly due to their large population size, and also because many companies are not subject to previous investment restrictions in the country and India. "We think of China and India as emerging markets, but in fact they start using cloud computing early," says Gantz. They skip the limitations of existing systems and therefore face minor resistance. ”

According to the IDC study, the United States and Canada will create nearly 1.2 million jobs related to cloud computing. As a country that used cloud technology earlier, the United States spent 62% of total global spending on public it cloud services in 2011.

IDC analyzed the trends in cloud computing spending in more than 40 countries around the world, and this information predicts the number of jobs that cloud computing spending will create.

"For companies using cloud computing, the time and budget for traditional systems and conventional upgrades is reduced, so more time and budget can be spent on more innovative projects," says Gantz. It innovation will drive business innovation and support the creation of new jobs. ”

Shenwey, Microsoft's chief cloud computing strategist for Greater China, called cloud computing "one of the most far-reaching changes in computing history." Given the uncertainties of the current economic environment, many companies seek to increase their capacity, reduce costs, improve their relationships with customers and create new opportunities through technology investment. ”

Take the lead in using Microsoft Cloud computing Technology, build "pork quality safety traceability supervision system" Chengdu Cloud Computing Center is one of the early beneficiaries of cloud computing, through cloud computing equivalent to save more than half of it funds. Chengdu Municipal Commission deputy director Li Changhong said, "The current Chengdu E-government projects in the approval, will give priority to the use of Chengdu Cloud Computing Center platform." Not only can reduce the cost, in the green energy conservation is also very important. At the same time, with the improvement of the quality of pork food, after the completion of information coverage, the current management system for pork quality and safety traceability will be extended to more basic areas and more food species. ”

China Galaxy Securities Co., Ltd. Vice president Chen Jing said: "In the Future, cloud computing has great prospects, the securities industry is also exploring how to better use of cloud computing, whether private or public cloud." Microsoft has accumulated a wealth of experience in the field of cloud computing, and has a lot of forward-looking research and discussion on integration and application. I believe that if we can develop along the current technical line, with Microsoft continue to work together, will be able to maintain the current leading edge. “

With cloud computing, Microsoft's customers are re-examining business models that collaborate with customers, suppliers and other stakeholders, Shenwey said. For example, by migrating to the cloud, an auto parts vendor can purchase parts more quickly and develop new inventory to enhance the customer experience. Similarly, a large pharmaceutical company is using the cloud to get feedback from think-tank libraries around the world and then to share it with clients and improve health care. "We have seen countless times how the cloud has helped our customers save costs and enhance the customer experience," he says. ”

"The cloud will be an important force to help the world's economic recovery," Shenwey said. CIOs want to know how to use the Cloud to drive business growth and want to ensure that the right people and skills are in place to achieve this goal. ”