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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.