Half of U.S. I.T. Operations Jobs to Vanish

Ant writes "A MacCentral article says Gartner, Inc. researchers believe that as many as 50 percent of the IT operational jobs in the U.S. could disappear over the next two decades because of improvements in data center technologies. Donna Scott, a Gartner analyst, said IT workers face a situation similar to that in the manufacturing field, which has lost jobs over the past several decades as automation has improved. Similarly, standardization of IT infrastructure, applications and processes will lead to productivity improvements and a major shift in skill needs, she said."

Comments

Improvements in data center technologies?

[Nine Tenths of The W]

Is that a new way of saying outsourced to India?

Bugs

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't worry ... I'm busy adding countless bugs and security flaws....send more beer and I'll try harder.

Quoting Charles Wang on Gartner

[whatthef*ck]

"I want to choose my words carefully here, so I'm not misunderstood," he said. "They're a bunch of fucking idiots."

Re:Helpdesk

[Phleg]

Of course it can be automated. We just need to automate users first. Possibly with a small shell script.