Comments on: How does a move to the cloud impact IT staffing?

By: Lily Wilks

Lily Wilks — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 01:55:50 +0000

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By: Marcus Robertson

Marcus Robertson — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:37:37 +0000

The key functions of the IT staff haven’t gone away, but how they approach their job has.

1.) A much broader Application knowledge is required. API’s and control panels take a front seat to deep installation and configuration experience. Much less “hard drive swapping” and more strategic capacity and disaster recovery planning.

2.) The more you host in the cloud, the more scale you get. Systems per IT staffer is greatly increased as tools have improved and automation makes many of the primary tasks for IT staff (and often mundane stuff) now just a dashboard item in the background. Loss of direct control–but not loss of accountability–is a big consideration when outages occur.

Marcus Robertson
CTO
TrueAbility

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 01:08:05 +0000

I don’t think any of these panelists are qualified to speak about IT staffing. None of them represent the IT staffing component.

By: janine

janine — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:52:34 +0000

A similar exercise: andrewmcafee.org/2012/10/mcafee-cloud-costs-google-model/