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How Increasing Cloud Reliance Affects IT Jobs

Posted by Soulskill on from the bob-here-will-escort-you-out-of-the-building dept.

snydeq writes "Kevin Fogarty takes a look at how the rise of cloud computing will impact IT jobs, outlining which roles stand to gain prominence in the years to come, and which roles will suffer as organizations extend their commitments to the cloud. 'Ultimately the bulk of IT could look more like a projects office than the way it looks now, when most of the hands-on work is done inside. It probably won't be a total transformation, but moving into cloud, there will be more of that and less DIY.'"

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  1. Re:Who do you trust? by Oceanplexian · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Failover with multiple connections is far from simple, and generally out-of-reach for most businesses. If you're hosting web services, then you need to need to acquire IPv4 space (not exactly easy nowadays), a BGP prefix, an expensive router, and pay hundreds to thousands of dollars a month to >1 ISP that support BGP.

    Alternatively, you could just get 2 cheap internet connections and a router that supports active fail-over/load balancing, however now half your address-space on the other ISP is unreachable. Not to mention that those routers cost thousands of dollars if you don't enjoy hours of BSD hacking...

    So yeah, it's not that strange that bill-the-office-manager isn't running a HA configuration.

  2. Re:retrain as a lawyer by AtlantaSteve · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm a 12+ year Java developer, who recently completed a JD at a T2 law school. I was basically bored and unsatisfied in my career. I still love to code, but I've seen pretty much everything there is to see... and I spend 95% of my time in meetings or wrestling with environmental dependencies rather than coding.

    However, I've stayed in I.T. regardless, because the grass is NOT greener on the other side. As with anything else in society, the top-5% of lawyers are doing great... but things are miserable for the bottom-95%. It's the worst legal job market in almost a hundred years. It can take a year or two of searching to find a legal job, and the only legal jobs available consist of soul-crushing drudgery (even by I.T. standards). Finally, the average salary for non-top-5% lawyer is about 50% below that of an experienced Java developer (who can always land a new job on a few weeks notice).

    I know that the parent comment was played for sarcasm, but don't believe the hype. The legal field sucks much worse than I.T.