At its core, cloud computing is outsourced infrastructure or application services. There will continue to be increasing adoption to allow IT to improve service levels, lower costs (if it can dial down services during periods of lower demand) and respond faster to change required by the business. In some cases, especially smaller organizations, a move to outsourced services can ensure that the number of jobs within an IT organization does not need to grow. This is good for business.
In medium and large organizations, the new ala carte menu options provided by various options in cloud computing will create new challenges for the IT organization. This will initiate a shift in job functions. There will be more outsourcing of jobs that are single-focus technical specialists (either to managed services or to services bundled with cloud offerings), but there will also be growth in need for architects, designers, development integrators, security specialists, compliance officers and IT managers of outsourcers within the IT organization. This is also good for the business because the leverage and value for the funded job position grows. IT has always created and lived with change and transformation. The cloud transformation, like all change, creates opportunities and challenges, but from the perspective of jobs, I anticipate that there will be continued net growth because as a whole, IT enables business.
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