How the Cloud Is Changing the Roles of IT Professionals

Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Sue Poremba.

As more companies turn to the cloud for their computing needs, it is inevitable that the role of the IT professional will change. According to CompTIA’s Third Annual Trends in Cloud Computing study, more than eight in 10 companies currently use some form of cloud computing solution, and more than half plan to increase cloud investments by 10 percent or more in 2012. But that cloud popularity also means that businesses are re-examining the functions of their IT staff.

“We are seeing the modern IT pro being moved in a number of different directions,” explained Antonio Piraino, CTO of ScienceLogic. “Firstly, there are the newer tasks of being the orchestrator and decision maker for a critical component of corporate budgets shifting toward IT. The IT pro is being seen as the trusted adviser for business productivity applications that are leveraged in critical ways, and by far more impatient and demanding users than ever before.”…

IT pros will soon no longer be expected to hole up within the confines of a single function all too often under-appreciated or less understood by the rest of the organization, he added. Instead there are a variety of tasks, including being involved in project management, server administration, app development, social media strategy and branding through the web site or portal, amongst others, to be gaining higher exposure…

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