Clouds gathering over the channel

Grazed from ITWire. Author: Stuart Conner.

At a recent IDC seminar on cloud computing Chris Morris, associate vice president, cloud technologies and services with IDC Asia Pacific, gave IDC’s perspective on how the growth of cloud computing would impact the skills mix in the IT departments of enterprises.

The skills mix, he said, would shift from technical experts to manage in-house IT resources to those with a stronger emphasis on management skills to handle relationships with service providers as the trend to shift IT into the domain of cloud based service providers gathers momentum…

"By 2015 the percentage of enterprise systems that will be managed by third party providers will double and the management an organisation does will be contract management, management of SLAs and the management of those vendors overall," he said. "They will have acquired a whole range of different skills to do that. What might have been 80 percent IT technologies and 20 percent management might be 60 percent and 40 percent."…

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