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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Microsoft reckons its forthcoming Azure Stack on-premises cloud needs a special breed of sysadmin to keep it humming.
The company describes that worthy as a " Azure Stack Operator" and says they will be "Responsible for operating Azure Stack infrastructure end-to-end – planning, deployment and integration, packaging and offering cloud resources and requested services on the infrastructure."
[...] True to form, Microsoft will try to monetize these roles: it's flagged a new five-day course titled "Configuring and Operating a Hybrid Cloud with Microsoft Azure Stack" that will debut on September 18th. When, presumably, we'll also learn what it costs to become an Azure Stack Operator and how quickly the certification will expire. ®
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 18 2017, @07:52PM
Virtualization stacks which is what this is, are becoming a sysadmin role in many orgs. On premise is a big deal in many industries where there is regulatory privacy and contractual up-time requirements. Many of those companies are rolling their own. That VMWare and MS are seeing that their customers are passing on their stacks because it is not on premise is not surprising. That they are bundling it and letting them do on premise for a fee is not too surprising either. At the current org I am at they are currently growing their own. They are going from a 4 month lead time and 2 month design, to 1-2 day standup and build and deliver. That is a huge deal to them. Most of the lead time was to go back and re-audit things and then usually buying more equipment. Stacks like this let you get ahead of it and automate the problem.
Keep those racks going in a 'particular' way does take a different kind of mantra than a toss a bunch of servers together sysadmin. Anyone who thinks differently will find out quick you need to have discipline, repeatably, and higher reliability than you are used to.