Cloud Software is Changing the Face of IT
October 13, 2013
Grazed from Piston. Author: Editorial Staff.
Cloud software is changing the way IT departments run. IT is no longer the “owner” of technology in the enterprise. As Rick Vanover put it, “the ‘server admin’ we have known over the years is a job description that is seriously at risk.” With cloud software providing an increasingly self-serve computing environment, the IT department will have to change. Thoran Rodrigues writes in Tech Republic about how this is going to happen.
Rodrigues points to a fundamental shift in corporate IT from capital intensive data center build-outs to cloud-based software hosting. Whether the cloud is running as a private cloud, a hybrid cloud, or a public cloud, the truth remains that the IT department no longer has iron control over all computing in the enterprise…
Corporate computing needs can often be satisfied without the need for IT technicians to rack and stack a new machine. The era of sysadmin as the pinsetter, rearranging the equipment room every time there’s a change, is rapidly coming to a close…
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