5 Ways Cloud Computing is Disrupting Everyone’s Job
September 26, 2012
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Joe McKendrick.
A few months back, IDC released a study, underwritten by Microsoft, that predicted cloud computing would eventually add about 14 million jobs to the global economy. Of course, those are direct jobs cited in the study, such as developers. Of even greater significance are the jobs indirectly affected by cloud. Essentially, we could be talking about every job in every organization that will either be enhanced or diminished with the arrival of cloud. But no matter how you look at it, cloud will be part of many job descriptions to be written over the next few years.
Ironically, as cloud sweeps through with new ways of running businesses, we’ll be calling it “cloud” less and less. It will simply be the way information is delivered and processed, without the need to think whether it comes from an outside service or from internal systems. Here are five key ways cloud computing is reshaping the way business is conducted:…
1. Information technology is becoming a shared responsibility for everyone, not confined to a single, specialized department. Executives, managers and professionals increasingly have access to computing resources that can be procured, as needed, with a credit card. At the same time, there is an evolution underway, in which technology professionals are more likely to be embedded within lines of business, versus IT departments. Plus, surveys have shown that already, more than one-third of IT budgets are going to cloud computing. It’s not uncommon for line-of-business executives to have larger IT budgets than IT department executives. IT executives are not becoming marginalized, however. Rather, they are increasingly seen as advisers to the business, providing both strategic and tactical guidance identifying and selecting the right resources — be they from internal IT assets or from outside providers…
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