Pride and frustration: IT jobs in the cloud computing era

As the third revolution in it, many people say that cloud computing will change everything in the IT world for the simple reason that cloud computing can easily bring computing power to the general public, even better than what the PC did at the time.





As for the internet revolution, cloud computing is not yet comparable to it, but not in the future. For the same reason, cloud computing has delivered vast and inexpensive computing resources directly to a large number of non-it practitioners, giving them direct access to complex software, storage, and data, and they are able to do their job well through cloud computing, regardless of the involvement of the IT department.





about the development of cloud computing, some IDC statistics gives the forecast:





to 2014, One-third of IT companies will use cloud services to replace the IT department within the enterprise.





by 2015, the cost of corporate spending on public cloud services and SaaS will be the 46%,saas of the IT year overhead and cloud service providers will become mainstream providers of enterprise it.





So what does this have to do with actual it jobs? We divide several common it jobs into three categories, the ones who are proud of cloud computing, the losers, and those who must make changes in the age of cloud computing.





's greatest triumph: Enterprise Architect





Enterprise Architects are those who design cloud computing environments, and the key skills required for this position include understanding the software stack in the cloud architecture, Application Management framework, network design, bandwidth latency, and other comprehensive technologies. In the resource environment of cloud computing, enterprises should collaborate as a symphony orchestra, and Enterprise architects play the role of command.





Enterprise Architects are often their own biggest enemies, said VMware's CIO Mark Egan, as Enterprise architects need to master all aspects of the top enterprise architecture technology, but at that level they become difficult to communicate, "they'll sit there and paint all day, But they can't find people who are willing to work with them.





while the underlying architecture and resources of enterprise it are heavily virtualized, abstracted and distributed across a variety of internal and external cloud platforms, enterprise architects will undoubtedly become the most important enterprise IT jobs, Egan said.





: System Administrator




After the architect completes the design of the cloud architecture,
needs the system administrator to do the detail work. They need to allocate workload between physical servers, virtual servers, and data centers, allocating CPU cycles, memory, and other resources to ensure efficiency.





a new generation of system administrators will need to be in charge of the latest operational technologies that will require the deployment of appropriate monitoring systems for resilient, highly scalable, geographically distributed applications.





: Frontline IT manager





as a low-level IT manager, their work will follow some changes in the cloud architecture, as is the case with the system administrator. The relatively loose enterprise architecture that cloud architecture brings to lower-level IT managers gives them more freedom of work and is no longer confined to one department.





frustrated: Middle-level IT manager





after large-scale application of cloud services and virtualization systems, the middle-level IT managers who are sandwiched between system administrators and senior IT managers are the most frustrated, and just think about it, and if cloud computing and virtualization eliminate the chimney barriers between the network, the application and the storage, the system administrator will be able to unify the work of these parts, Who needs to be assigned a dedicated IT manager for each part?





Frustrated: Technical expert





's expertise in network, security, storage, and other IT specialties has been a popular IT industry, but not anymore. The need for IT staff to understand all aspects of the network, security, storage, user interface, and so on, means that more it is needed, rather than a deep expert in a particular field.





role change: CIO and senior IT manager





for senior IT managers, their role transitions are much greater, and they need to break down barriers within the enterprise and introduce more flexible architectures, including applications and external service provider computing resources. In the past, CIOs or it executives were probably the only ones responsible for outsourcing services in the enterprise, but in the era of cloud computing and SaaS, many senior IT managers were involved.





role change: Enterprise Developer





the era of cloud computing is not to say that big companies use less software and apps than before, but that they will rarely or no longer develop apps themselves, and they will be able to get the apps and core functionality they need directly from Salesforce.com or SaaS providers.





however they still need to maintain data and databases, and develop a certain customization function, so that SaaS applications can be more suitable for enterprise internal workflow and data, in the cloud based enterprise, the demand for developers is still strong, their task is to enable enterprise applications to better achieve internal and external integration, be more effective.