The cloud job that should make you think twice

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

There’s a new technology position you may have heard of: the cloud manager. Typically, cloud managers work in enterprise IT, in charge of maintaining the company’s adopted IaaS and PaaS public cloud services. The new job may sound like a great place to get in on the vanguard of technology adoption, but most cloud managers I meet aren’t so happy.

Why so glum? The job is quickly ballooning, and cloud managers don’t have the tools to control the huge wave coming at them. Though you’d think cloud managers have only one or two cloud services to deal with, I find they usually have four or five, with more expected by 2014. The reason? In large part, the growth in clouds to manage is due to "shadow IT" cloud computing projects coming to light. As a result, those cloud-based applications and data stores will move to central corporate IT control…

The duties of cloud managers vary greatly. However, they typically manage the allocation of the public cloud resources to those in the organization who request them. Also, they make sure the monthly bill matches the resources actually consumed. Moreover, cloud managers monitor the health of the cloud services, deal with security issues, and generally do whatever is needed to keep things working. It’s a big job…

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