Comments on: Hey, IT Staff, Get Off My Cloud http://gigaom.com/2009/10/07/hey-it-staff-get-off-my-cloud/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:44:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Rodrigo Flores http://gigaom.com/2009/10/07/hey-it-staff-get-off-my-cloud/#comment-226080 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:25:40 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=73428#comment-226080 This human factor is a real issue. One company I visited has 1 admin per 1,000 servers; as they add virtualization, they plan for that ratio to get even better.

The big difference with the past that cloud calls for standardization. When every server is exactly the same, you can by avoid the custom and long server-build process. It’s self-service catalog model rather than the bespoke model it’s in lots of IT organizations.

As for IT jobs, some jobs will go away. But a whole bunch of new ones are being born right now. For example, cloud computing requires a very good service catalog; this is driving demand for IT product managers, relationship managers and service designers. These are new jobs in IT.

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