Comments on: Will a Shift to Cloud Computing Create or Cut Jobs? http://gigaom.com/2009/03/15/will-a-shift-to-cloud-computing-create-or-cut-jobs/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:38:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: What’s Hindering Cloud Adoption? Try Humans.: Cloud « http://gigaom.com/2009/03/15/will-a-shift-to-cloud-computing-create-or-cut-jobs/#comment-494056 Sun, 31 Oct 2010 16:05:36 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=42257#comment-494056 [...] there’s the issue of jobs and overall IT department culture. Cloud computing, by its very definition, eliminates the need for certain personnel and forces the [...]

]]> By: CloudNinja http://gigaom.com/2009/03/15/will-a-shift-to-cloud-computing-create-or-cut-jobs/#comment-163644 Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:26:48 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=42257#comment-163644 IT Pros are asking “What does my job look like as the tech industry and my company move toward cloud computing?” – I believe David Gristwood nailed this on the head by saying “I think that the Cloud gives IT Pros, admins, etc, the opportunity to get involved with more interesting and higher value activities, such as capacity planning and forecasting, health monitoring, QA, etc, rather than the lower level stuff that is needed just to keep systems up and going”.

thoughts?
-cn

]]> By: Enterprise Efficiency - Matthew McKenzie - Cloud Computing: The (Next) Great IT Job-Killer http://gigaom.com/2009/03/15/will-a-shift-to-cloud-computing-create-or-cut-jobs/#comment-163643 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:54:10 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=42257#comment-163643 [...] and minimizing management. So when cloud computing pulls the plug on those servers, it will also pull the plug on quite a few IT job [...]

]]> By: Holmes Wilson http://gigaom.com/2009/03/15/will-a-shift-to-cloud-computing-create-or-cut-jobs/#comment-163642 Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:59:59 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=42257#comment-163642 Re: In response to Amazon’s remote deletion of 1984 and Animal Farm

Hi there,

Saw you’d written about the Amazon / 1984 flap, and I thought you might be
interested in the petition we launched yesterday:

http://defectivebydesign.org/amazon1984

We have over 1400 signatures already, and signers include Lawrence Lessig,
Clay Shirky, Cory Doctorow and other notable authors, librarians, and
scholars.

The petition opens:

“We believe in a way of life based on the free exchange of ideas, in which
books have and will continue to play a central role. Devices like Amazon’s
are trying to determine how people will interact with books, but Amazon’s
use of DRM to control and monitor users and their books constitutes a clear
threat to the free exchange of ideas.”

Please have a look, and if you support the cause or think it would be
interesting to your readers, a blog post would be great!

Thanks,

-Holmes Wilson
Free Software Foundation

]]> By: IT Certification News » Blog Archive » The Next Big Thing To Learn Is Cloud Computing http://gigaom.com/2009/03/15/will-a-shift-to-cloud-computing-create-or-cut-jobs/#comment-163641 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:08:11 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=42257#comment-163641 [...] There is no way to get around this, if you are in IT and you stop learning, then you are doomed to be replaced in the near future. Today’s laid-off systems administrators, however, are not likely landing these newly formed IT 2.0 jobs. They have been too busy applying duct tape and Band-Aids to existing infrastructures to stay on top of the cutting edge. Nearly a year and a half ago, already, I heard a FedEx Corporate Services IT executive bemoan how ill-equipped his team was to deal with the division’s increasingly fabric-like infrastructure. He was neither the first nor the last to express that sentiment. Source: Gigaom [...]

]]> By: Cloud Computing: A System of Control http://gigaom.com/2009/03/15/will-a-shift-to-cloud-computing-create-or-cut-jobs/#comment-163640 Fri, 29 May 2009 20:01:58 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=42257#comment-163640 [...] based on this more flexible paradigm. By embedding more flexibility in service deployments, cloud services can increase control of IT costs in ways not previously available. I refer to this new control paradigm as “deployment [...]

]]> By: lutzland.blog » Identity in the Age of Cloud Computing: The next-generation Internet’s impact on business, governance and social interaction http://gigaom.com/2009/03/15/will-a-shift-to-cloud-computing-create-or-cut-jobs/#comment-163639 Sat, 16 May 2009 22:10:54 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=42257#comment-163639 [...] Will a Shift to Cloud Computing Create or Cut Jobs? (gigaom.com) [...]

]]> By: Is Research Yahoo’s Cloud Calling? http://gigaom.com/2009/03/15/will-a-shift-to-cloud-computing-create-or-cut-jobs/#comment-163638 Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:39:36 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=42257#comment-163638 [...] Yahoo-style. To the extent Yahoo wants to compete with the likes of Google in this arena, it has to groom a workforce that is up to the challenge. After all, Google has a similar program in partnership with [...]

]]> By: Will cloud computing cost jobs? « Craig’s T.I.P.s http://gigaom.com/2009/03/15/will-a-shift-to-cloud-computing-create-or-cut-jobs/#comment-163637 Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:25:01 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=42257#comment-163637 [...] first though after reading an article of a similar title was that cloud computing will definitely cause the loss of certain IT jobs, [...]

]]> By: Google Maps, Buscador de Numeros Celulares http://gigaom.com/2009/03/15/will-a-shift-to-cloud-computing-create-or-cut-jobs/#comment-163636 Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:29:32 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=42257#comment-163636 [...] Will a Shift to Cloud Computing Create or Cut Jobs? [...]

]]> By: Cloud Competition is Great for Startups - Continuations http://gigaom.com/2009/03/15/will-a-shift-to-cloud-computing-create-or-cut-jobs/#comment-163635 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:18:52 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=42257#comment-163635 [...] Will a Shift to Cloud Computing Create or Cut Jobs? (gigaom.com) [...]

]]> By: JORDI TORRES home page :: Will a Shift to Cloud Computing Create or Cut IT Jobs? http://gigaom.com/2009/03/15/will-a-shift-to-cloud-computing-create-or-cut-jobs/#comment-163634 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:31:13 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=42257#comment-163634 [...] and eighties lead to the permanent destruction of many assembly line factory jobs. I good  post to read and think about it during this [...]

]]> By: Damon Edwards http://gigaom.com/2009/03/15/will-a-shift-to-cloud-computing-create-or-cut-jobs/#comment-163633 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:54:40 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=42257#comment-163633 This sure seems like much ado about nothing.

IT jobs by their very nature require constant education and personal “retooling”. An IT worker who expects their skills to be valid 5 or 10 years from now is going to be out of a job no matter what the coming trends are. Sure you can always find a dwindling number of gigs taking care of legacy technology (which never seems to go away as quickly as people predict). But those who refuse to keep up with the educational curve are going to find themselves passed over no matter what.

The argument that IT jobs are going to disappear due to new technology has been around for as long as there has been such a thing as “IT jobs”. It grabs headlines and causes wringing of hands…. but never comes true.

]]> By: Jonathan Sapir http://gigaom.com/2009/03/15/will-a-shift-to-cloud-computing-create-or-cut-jobs/#comment-163632 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:05:20 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=42257#comment-163632 Here are 2 quotes from a long time ago that are particularly relevant to this discussion:

“The general theoretical proposition that the worker who loses his job in one industry will necessarily be able to find employment, possibly after appropriate retraining, in some other industry is as invalid as would be the assertion that horses that lost their job in transportation and agriculture can necessarily have
been put to another economically productive use.” – Wassily Leontief

“… today’s tech-savvy, well-compensated worker could become an expensive anachronism as tomorrow’s technological advances offer new opportunities for slashing costs and improving economies of scale. A world filled with smart computers, all linked via the Internet, could easily undermine whole sectors of today’s vibrant service and information industries.” – Business Week (1998)

]]> By: dave http://gigaom.com/2009/03/15/will-a-shift-to-cloud-computing-create-or-cut-jobs/#comment-163631 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:27:09 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=42257#comment-163631 my prediction: overall reduction in number of staff infrastructure jobs, increased hiring at a senior architectural level (turning business plans into architectures that exploit cloud computing)….

]]> By: John Vasko http://gigaom.com/2009/03/15/will-a-shift-to-cloud-computing-create-or-cut-jobs/#comment-163630 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:34:15 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=42257#comment-163630 Derrick, what a well-written and well-thought-out post. And great, intelligent comments as well. I don’t work in IT but rather in digital media product development. I really do believe that cloud computing will be good for IT, Web development, and the Internet at large. Your statement about current IT professionals spending so much time putting Band-Aids on problems rather than learning new technology is very true. I do hope that you’re proven wrong on the re-training front. I hope that some of the veterans out there will change with the times and retrain themselves for new functions. In this day and age, all of us have to continually learn new skills to stay ahead of the curve.

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