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Most It Pros Don't Fear Losing Their Jobs to the Cloud
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While most people in the IT industry predict that enterprise cloud computing usage will accelerate in the next two years, they are just as confident that IT professionals will not be displaced from their enterprise jobs because of the cloud. In a survey conducted at the Cloud Leadership Forum, experts suggested that IT professionals may even want to prepare themselves to convert their enterprise IT infrastructures into private clouds, and to take on the role of provisioning cloud services for end users and business partners.
The Cloud Leadership Forum survey asked attendees to predict the future of cloud computing by agreeing or disagreeing with 46 predictive statements. The predictions with the most consensus were those that said that adoption of cloud computing would boom within the next few years. By 2015, at least 30% of Fortune 1000 enterprises will deploy at least one business critical system in the cloud. By 2014, one-third of all IT organizations will be providers of cloud services of one type or another to customers and/or business partners. Cloud service brokers that provide integration, management, security and other services across public cloud offerings will emerge as powerful industry players by 2015.
One of the biggest stumbling blocks to rapid adoption of clouds, private or public, can be IT employees who fear how their jobs will be affected. Yet, respondents in this survey seemed less fearful of the job implications of cloud computing. When asked if they thought, "75% of IT jobs will no longer exist as currently defined by 2015," 64% disagreed. Likewise, some 52% disagreed with this statement: "By 2013, most IT organizations will have gone through painful restructuring; brought on by the demands of building effective private clouds and/or capitalizing on public cloud. Despite the risks involved with the security and reliability of cloud computing, optimism runs high that IT professionals will not be negatively impacted if their suppliers suffer outages.
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