IT staff learning cloud will get better development

Cloud computing has an impact on some of IT's positions, adversely affecting trends like outsourcing, automation, and available computing, so IT professionals are transitioning from technology to enterprise.

"We call this transition a change from blue to white." Forrester analyst Ted Schadler said, "Cloud computing is accelerating the shift in technology and business, and those expertise at the business processing level are more important than ever before." The traditional technology-centric work will be more business-oriented Non-technical ability to transform, IT staff will face more business terminals from the enterprise.

The most dangerous IT jobs are those that focus on configuring and maintaining equipment. "At any time, once outsourced services are available, the need for skills such as installing the latest patches is not needed anymore." Schadler said, "I have not seen as many hiring server administrators, DBAs, and network engineers as in the past Job opportunities. "

iSpace's Schlocker took the same view, "The company no longer needs so much talent in this area."

In theory, IT staff replaced by "Cloud Services Outsourcing" are receptive to other aspects of IT work. But in many cases, the expectations of these retraining are unrealistic: "It's not easy to train a CRM-savvy IT staff to be a data center maintainer." What to do? Schadler said, "I guess many of them can only hope to keep their existing jobs as long as possible."

"Industrial" IT talent tight

For the remaining jobs in the IT industry, Schlocker believes that even the medium-sized businesses will have a growing demand for talent from large "industrial" IT companies. That's because mid-sized companies that are turning to outsourcing and cloud computing are looking for talent with a technology background to manage, coordinate and connect with industrial-grade cloud service providers.

Fornter Staten of Forrester also holds the view that "IT professionals who have experience in Web Extensions configuration - including the need to build, manage and optimize these applications, will grow further, while those with virtualization experience People's needs will also increase. "

The effective management of commercial contracts is getting more and more attention. Gartner's McDonald said that "there are more and more positions in supplier relationship management and coordination."

Terrya's Terry said "CIOs are likely to spend more time acting as contract negotiators, managers and supplier coordinators who will focus more on business processes than CPUs, disk space, and cooling systems." They need Think strategically about the role of technology leader. "

The technology that internal software developers need to master can also be affected by cloud computing. "The focus for more work in the future will be on SaaS integration," Terry said. "If you hire someone to write an application today, then tomorrow will pay someone to configure and customize the SaaS application for the enterprise."

Schadler from Forrester said that cloud service providers are also hungry for IT professionals with some "industrial-grade" skills. "They need highly qualified people who really know about automation and standardization processes." Schadler suggested "look at what types of technologies companies need and will start getting in the next five years, including vendor contract management, cloud computing, analytics Learn, network application technology, mobile application technology, etc., are the knowledge and technology that you need to master in the next 10 years. "

"Trying to get a job from a device vendor rather than a mere system for an enterprise." Terry suggested, "Our advice is to have a system that works with a particular high-end technology environment such as virtualization or SAN- Related expertise, or gain some experience managing SaaS. Accept cloud computing, not resist it. "