""Some percentage of the jobs actually performing infrastructure services, monitoring, and datacenter operations in-house will shift to cloud service providers like Google, Amazon, and the telcos..."
But for start-up entrepreneurs, this can be the good news: that the creative work of assessing a consumer/business niche of need can move more quickly to the creative work of filling that niche need in better ways.
The cloud can really be the friend of our enterprising spirits.
Exactly. I see cloud computing as more enabling than disabling since people don't have to focus on the mundane as much as they can focus on the things that are unique to their idea. This is progress! Not something to be feared...
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Yes, as they say:
""Some percentage of the jobs actually performing infrastructure services, monitoring, and datacenter operations in-house will shift to cloud service providers like Google, Amazon, and the telcos..."
But for start-up entrepreneurs, this can be the good news: that the creative work of assessing a consumer/business niche of need can move more quickly to the creative work of filling that niche need in better ways.
The cloud can really be the friend of our enterprising spirits.
Exactly. I see cloud computing as more enabling than disabling since people don't have to focus on the mundane as much as they can focus on the things that are unique to their idea. This is progress! Not something to be feared...
The point is there are people out there highly trained and experienced at focusing on the mundane, and if their jobs go away, what will they do?
Besides, poking about with hardware and sysadminning can be pretty fun, in limited short bursts.
The point is there are people out there highly trained and experienced at focusing on the mundane, and if their jobs go away, what will they do?
They should learn something new... Just because they're highly trained doesn't mean they get a free ride for the rest of their lives.