If you listen to the hype “the Cloud” is going to take over the world in a few years. Very soon – all but the most risk-averse companies will be completely operating on Office 365.
Not sure it will happen that fast (and I also think there will be many other Cloud providers popping up to take some of the market share), but it will eventually become the dominant way to “do I.T.”.
So – ten years from now – if all of the hardware and software in a companies data center is now just a museum, what will be the future for our jobs ? Will there more opportunity or less, some of us will have to reskill but to what ? If we don’t run the systems what will developers do ? Will developers be employed in companies any more, or will they just be “App” developers who build and promote in a app store ?
Love to know your thoughts (and guesses) on where we are going and what that it will mean for the various SharePoint job roles of today …
The only thing we can be sure of, is change. If you’re in the IT industry, you should be thriving on change and know that nothing stands still. You need to adapt to it, or get out. I think there will always be jobs for everyone, there is more than enough business for everyone. I have other concerns about the cloud. I think I’ll post about that actually…
