{"id":2573,"date":"2011-11-23T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=2573"},"modified":"2011-11-23T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T15:00:01","slug":"cloud-computing-and-technology-the-growing-cyber-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/cloud-computing-and-technology-the-growing-cyber-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing and Technology: The Growing Cyber Workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first waves of cloud computing have hit the shore and the impact has rattled many in IT. \u00a0Vendor strategies and business plans are hastily being rewritten as a result of the change. \u00a0But the implications of cloud computing appear far more reaching than just mid-course adjustments of corporate plans. \u00a0 IT workers are expected to be strongly impacted by the cloud.<\/p>\n

James Staten<\/a>, principal analyst at Forrester Research, said that initially cloud computing could create new jobs. \u00a0The move to cloud applications may mean that there will be work in migrating data or integrating together new systems.<\/p>\n

But longer term, the outlook is less rosy. \u00a0Mark McDonald<\/a>, Gartner vice president of executive programs, told ComputerWorld <\/a>as early as 2009\u00a0that the efficiencies of cloud computing will ultimately result in being able to do more with fewer workers. \u00a0 Cloud computing is designed to operate on the level of economies of scale, taking advantage of massive, highly automated and virtualized self-service infrastructure. \u00a0McDonald said that “there will likely be fewer people needed per thousand transactions.”<\/p>\n

Carole Schlocker<\/a>, president of IT staffing at iSpace, said that “if you’re able to get one of these jobs, in many cases it’s a skill set that is less technical and more managerial and administrative, with days full of conference calls and putting out fires. In such jobs, few technical skills are added to your repertoire.”<\/p>\n

John McCarthy<\/a>, vice president and principal analyst of IT research at Forrester,\u00a0said <\/a>that “with the IT expectation gap \u2014 technology use is growing, but IT budgets are flat \u2014 rising, businesses are looking at instant, pay-per-use, on-demand models. The cloud will impact IT service providers in a big way. It may not replace jobs, but cloud computing with its ease of set-up and cost benefits, could become the politically correct alternative to offshoring.”<\/p>\n

Larry Dignan<\/a> of ZDNet reports<\/a> on a recent presentation by Gartner analysts\u00a0Johan Jacobs<\/a> and\u00a0Ken Brant<\/a> on the relationship between IT jobs and cloud computing where they predicted that demand for data-center IT staff members will collapse by 2020. \u00a0“The long-run value proposition of IT is not to support the human workforce \u2013 it is to replace it.”<\/p>\n

Dignan comments that “if Gartner\u2019s post-human industry theory, which dictates that intelligent machines will drive the economy more than people pans out, then the economic implications will be huge. There is no need for a human-machine singularity to impact career prospects. Creative destruction looks great on the whiteboard, but there is a human cost.”<\/p>\n

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The first waves of cloud computing have hit the shore and the impact has rattled many in IT. \u00a0Vendor strategies and business plans are hastily being rewritten as a result of the change. \u00a0But the implications of cloud computing appear…<\/span><\/p>\n

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