The next focus of cloud services team work is the breadth of technology

Summary: Identifying, assessing, and ranking risks associated with cloud computing is the first step for a company to identify opportunities. It is only through minimizing, monitoring, and controlling the impact of validation and possible risk that there is no problem in development. This is also the key to maximizing the opportunities associated with cloud computing.

Although personally not accustomed to play the prophet to predict the future, but the new year has indeed arrived, in view of the future of industry development, I still have a deep thinking. The content of this article is my personal thoughts on how cloud-based services will bring changes to IT professionals in the 2011 and beyond.

In many areas, cloud services will be quickly popularized, which will be beyond doubt. The interesting thing about making progress on cloud services is to choose the number of small and medium-sized enterprises to migrate to cloud services. Traditionally, since economies of scale have been instrumental in reducing the initial cost of a new technology, it innovation technology has always been promoted in large companies. In the case of small and medium sized companies, the time of application is usually postponed because of the need to prove the feasibility of the technology and the possibility of becoming mainstream first. But this does not appear on cloud services. In fact, the fastest growing segment is from small and medium-sized enterprises.

The reason is actually very simple, for small and medium-sized enterprises, cloud services in the economies of scale has brought great advantages. For a small company with 15 employees, choosing to deploy systems such as Exchange, SharePoint and Officecommunicator, and in-house online conferencing can be costly in terms of hardware, software, backup, and human resources. In the three-year period, the overall cost will be at least 10,000 dollars, and I do not think it is an overly exaggerated figure. Even from a lower point of view, it should include $5,000 trillion in hardware, $2000 in software, $1000 in backup, and 2000 dollars in services. By the month, it's about 275 dollars a month.

For the same 15 users, if they choose to use the Microsoft Business Performance Online Standard kit, each user pays 10 dollars per month. This is the total cost of 150 dollars a month. There are, of course, cheaper alternatives offered by other suppliers, but this comparison is straightforward for new installations that do not have the cost of settling.

For small and medium-sized enterprises that want to focus on their core competencies and reduce their spending on it budgets, they are impressed by the cost savings.

What is the impact of this paradigm shift for traditional IT professionals? The correct standard answer is, "This depends on the actual situation." To a large extent, it depends on the type of company the IT technician is in.

Changes that occur in all types of companies

The flexibility and scalability that the cloud offers is not just about companies, IT professionals are included. Because of the increasing number of devices and situations that need to be connected to the cloud for service, IT professionals will find themselves increasingly focused on remote areas of work and the "office environment" where they can provide connectivity anytime and anywhere.

As a small number of giant suppliers occupy the main market of the service sector, cloud services show a trend of homogenization; for IT professionals, this means an increase in liquidity and a reduction in the amount of time the company will spend preparing for migration.

Although this flexibility can bring some benefits, for example, the cost of transportation and accommodation will be reduced, but also means that the inability to track or subsidize the actual working hours will become longer.

After helping employees to achieve a reasonable balance between work and other activities, the company will find that the flow rate is beginning to decline. For the non-cloud environment, the increase in staff mobility, should be caused by the human resources management departments concerned.

Changes in small and medium enterprises

Small and medium enterprises may find that they no longer need so many (or any) full-time IT professionals. It may become a part-time position with functional and technical functional tendencies.

Small and medium management service providers

At this time, the most affected are the small and medium-sized outsourcing and hosting service providers. Compared with cloud services, the added value they provide is eroded. By providing cloud-based solutions, large companies can attract more small and medium business users, while small and medium-sized IT organizations will lose opportunities for customers, profits and traditional services.

However, it is also an opportunity for service providers with sufficient flexibility to turn themselves into cloud partners. I mean, to help small and medium enterprises take advantage of the benefits from cloud services and to make profits from migrating services and retail of cloud services. This work is not very difficult, so the sales profit will be relatively low. In order to ensure the viability of the business model, sufficient quantity is the key. This means that small and medium-sized management service providers need to increase the customer base to ensure sustainability.

So what does this mean for IT professionals in small and medium-sized outsourcing enterprises? My expectation is that the technical work to be done in person will be greatly reduced, and that the chances of a slave-managed service for more customers will become much greater. Because of the network architecture and management requirements, connecting to the cloud will increase the importance of maintaining local connectivity.

Large

There will be a diversion of IT technology teams in large enterprises. They will be split into two parts dedicated to building and running internal private clouds and managing the use of enterprise cloud services, both private and public.

Private cloud teams will provide technology (for example, virtualization, structural computing, grid computing, etc.) in the internal private clouds to meet the actual needs of the enterprise.

In terms of job responsibilities, the cloud services management team will have greater changes. Their business concerns will be greatly reduced. Research on technical depth will also be reduced, with emphasis on the breadth of technology.

In addition, a new set of skill standards is necessary. The skills system includes the following:

Workload analysis and management--understand which workflows can be migrated to the cloud service and which services are suitable for which workflows.

Sourcing and supplier management-to maximize cost savings while ensuring business efficiency does not fall, it is important to manage various cloud service providers effectively. It will be a mixture of software, services, platforms, services, infrastructure, services, and so on.

Business Analytics-what workflow is most affected by time? Can software be used as a service to meet the needs of the business? In comparison to infrastructure providers such as migrating application servers to flexible computing clouds, using the Azure platform to redesign applications is more

A good choice?

Risk management-identifying, evaluating, and ranking risks associated with cloud computing is the first step in recognizing opportunities for companies. It is only through minimizing, monitoring, and controlling the impact of validation and possible risk that there is no problem in development. This is also the key to maximizing the opportunities associated with cloud computing.
　　
Information technology governance--only when you have in-depth research on how it technology meets the needs of your organization, and in the company's internal monitoring and control of current and future uses, can you migrate successful workflows into the cloud.
　　
Compliance-cloud services exceed traditional compliance requirements (for example, 2002 Public Company accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act, payment Card Industry data security standards, health Insurance Portability and Responsibility Act Act, etc., confirms how regulatory standards will affect the management of certain workflows and how to migrate them into the cloud. In some cases, it is also necessary to prove to an unfamiliar cloud auditor that your company has taken the necessary steps to protect your information assets from new challenges when migrating to the cloud.

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