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Better Get Used to It: The Cloud is Becoming Enterprise IT's Home

posted by n1 on Saturday October 17 2015, @02:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the will-deploy-for-dinner dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Computerworld has an article about the migration of enterprise IT from company-owned data centers to third-party clouds, and what it means to IT workers. Traditional concerns such as capacity planning and managing the physical aspects of a data center are now passé - companies now let Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and their competitors deal with those issues, and can provision virtual servers on the fly to handle spikes in demand.

So what kinds of job skills are needed now? The Computerworld article is scant on details, but this article from Cloud Computing News mentions AWS, Linux, Python, and being handy with popular virtualization and system configuration management tools such as Docker, Puppet, and Chef.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 17 2015, @09:20PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 17 2015, @09:20PM (#251229)

    ComputerWorld is funded by advertisers who stand to benefit from cloud computing. Hardly impartial.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by n1 on Sunday October 18 2015, @06:08PM

    by n1 (993) on Sunday October 18 2015, @06:08PM (#251524) Journal

    I'll be sure to reject any future submissions where the referenced article or information contained within is from a website which uses advertising for revenue, or if there is any organization mentioned in the article that could potentially benefit and/or profit from awareness of any product of service being mentioned... Will make the editing job a lot easier.

    Is it really a good idea to ignore trends that effect the industry many of us work in and have chosen as our vocation, purely because there's non-technical language involved? Targeting our frustrations on the messenger(s) and their intentions (and interests) does nothing to change the validity of message, nor does it actually make any progress toward re-evaluating the situation when planning for career progression or job/financial security.

    I am not in the business of pushing products and allowing press releases slip through the net. This is something I take a proactive approach to and have no doubt irritated other editors with my analysis, and pulling some of the submissions they have accepted in good faith.

    Being a small business owner, feeling all too aware of the anti-competitive practices, misleading marketing and high barriers to entry that plague various sectors within the technology industry. Putting my head in the sand about the latest developments in the fields I make my living, failing to understand reinvented products, concepts and regulation, does not stop them from being relevant.

  • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Monday October 19 2015, @02:16PM

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Monday October 19 2015, @02:16PM (#251818) Journal

    I didn't say 'impartial' - I said 'reputable'.

    Criticising the source of a story because one doesn't like the message - for whatever reason - seems to me to be a weak argument.