As cloud takes over, what is the role of the IT manager?
June 13, 2013
Grazed from OneStopClick. Author: Editorial Staff.
Legacy systems requiring manual management of IT structure have fallen to the wayside, one by one, as automated cloud computing systems have usurped the place of typical IT professionals and infrastructure managers. Unrest has shaken the industry since at least 2010, and the same advice has been issued over and over again, in varying tones. Forbes contributor Reuven Cohen put it bluntly: "You can adapt or die.”
Today, IT professionals must expect greater collaboration with other business units. According to IT World , business analysts and project managers will be in high demand concerning IT, as "user requirements must still be collected, cloud-based vendors must still be selected, and applications must still be integrated into business processes.” Technologists, security specialists, and infrastructure specialists will all be in high demand…
Unfortunately, software developers and programmers won’t be…within IT organisations, anyway. Cloud-based software vendors will have a high demand for these professionals as demand for the cloud increases. Jobs are not disappearing, but shifting. IT managers and system administrators may require new, easily learnable skills. "In these roles, they will be responsible for helping their organisations transition to a new IT environment,” said Vanessa Alvarez, an industry analyst at Frost & Sullivan, in her article . "Ultimately, there is the need for (non-IT) end users to understand what this new environment can provide for them, how they can leverage these resources, and what is the value achieved from this.”…
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