Cloud Computing Won’t Kill IT, But It’ll Definitely Transform It

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Robert Shaw.

Around the country, many corporate and small business IT professionals are downright scared about the future of their careers. Due to slow adoption in the corporate world and general unfamiliarity with administrating cloud services in the small business sector, the IT field has yet to undergo any massive shifts. But IT workers shouldn’t count on that pattern holding forever.

According to Gartner’s research director, Bryan Britz, “Public cloud adoption is accelerating and public cloud services do, and will, cannibalize IT services spending in the coming years.” In other words, more and more companies are likely to ditch their Exchange servers, Active Directory deployments, on-premises line-of-business applications, onsite data storage, and all of the administrative and personnel overhead associated with such infrastructure…

A recent survey by Gartner reported that 19 percent of U.S. companies are already using cloud services for all or most of their production applications, and 20 percent of companies rely on cloud storage for all or most of their data storage needs. Those numbers are likely to steadily increase for the next several years—and possibly indefinitely…

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