Cloud Computing: The Next Hot IT Job – Service Broker
March 31, 2014
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Andrew Froelich.
If you look at the most popular roles in enterprise IT today compared to a decade ago, you’ll notice that key IT roles have changed dramatically. Today’s hot IT jobs — including security engineers, server virtualization administrators, and mobile developers — were nonexistent or played a far less significant role in the past. We can expect the same to happen in the future. One role starting to develop prominence is what’s known as an "IT service broker."
And if you don’t think your department needs one now, you probably will see the need in the not too distant future. Gartner’s Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2014 called out the IT service broker as a position that would be gaining importance in cloud-leveraged organizations. The broker’s responsibilities are to work with public, private, and hybrid cloud service providers to assist in the design, implementation, and support of cloud services…
Each organization is different — it’s the duty of the service broker to understand those differences, translate them into the optimal cloud strategy, and then work with service providers to create a custom service at the lowest possible cost…
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