[olug] Clouds and SysAdmin Careers Was:Re: Chrome

[Dave Thacker]

On Friday 05 September 2008 12:27:02 T. J. Brumfield wrote:
> I'm not sure that each end user will sign on to a WebOS, but
> businesses are seeing the savings in virtualization.  Cloud computing
> is the next extension from that.  Not everyone will jump on the boat,
> but cloud computing will become more and more important regardless.
>
> Some people are scared that cloud computing will mean that SysAdmins
> will be out of work. 

There will be fewer needed, but that's been a long term trend for some time.  
During my last job change, I had as many or more opportunities with IT 
service providers as I did with companies maintaining their own IT 
departments.   I've come to the conclusion that it's likely my career will 
end with a provider.  I just hope they value a little grey hair.   That's 
whole 'nother topic, though. :)

> What it really means is that SysAdmins will be 
> working for the cloud company whose sole purpose is IT driven as
> opposed to separate industries that don't understand IT.  I welcome
> that change.
>

You may just be picking up the conflict between engineering and sales and 
moving it to a new location.  

> -- T. J.
Dave


>
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Will Langford <unfies at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Eventually we'll all be working for cloud providers/SAAS providers, or
> >> we won't be working with linux.
> >
> > I honestly don't think so.
> >
> > While access to your data from any location and any device is...
> > luring... I doubt we'll be heading back to the days of the dumb terminal
> > and mainframe approach.  There's many reasons why... paranoia,
> > not-wanting-everything-networked (see NAT toaster thread a while back),
> > speed, etc.  Even with a smarter local terminal, I still just don't see
> > it happening.
> >
> > As it is, I'm starting to see folly in having many of my important things
> > in a web-only based environment.  There was a slashdot thread a while
> > back about how to backup data you have on google... dunno if the thread
> > produced any results.  Can probably IMAP mirror gmail, but what about the
> > other apps ?  And paranoia/security is always a fun issue.
> >
> > Chrome, or any browser in a KIOSK mode makes perfect sense for google. 
> > I've made similar comments to others as well for some time (nothing on
> > list, tho).
> >
> > A similarly fun thing to note would be many ISP's instituting bandwidth
> > caps/budgets.  At what point do those interfere with cloud computing ?
> >
> > -Will
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