EMC: ‘a massive sea change in IT is underway because of cloud’
October 9, 2012
Grazed from SiliconRepublic. Author: Editorial Staff.
A massive IT transformation wave is sweeping the world as cloud computing, virtualisation and mobile technology transform the landscape, EMC’s head of product marketing Eric Herzog said today. According to EMC’s own research 81pc of local businesses will transform their IT functions in the next 12 months.
Herzog, whose full title is senior vice president of product management and product market, who was in Ireland to address the EMC Forum in Dublin, said that EMC itself has embraced cloud computing across 52,000 employees worldwide and discernable changes in work practices and roles are already apparent. EMC employs 2,700 people in Ireland. “You’ll need to pay close attention to how this revolution will impact the jobs market, it will mean redefining people’s roles in a team and the key is to make sure your team is adequately trained in terms of security, for example.”…
According to EMC’s research more than three out of five Irish businesses believe that cloud computing will create new roles and responsibilities for IT staff over the next three years. The survey that 65pc of businesses believe that they will need to create new roles such as cloud architects to transform their IT infrastructure while 50pc of companies believe that Big Data will generate a need for data scientists…
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