As the cloud, automation, artificial intelligence and similar technologies
change the data center landscape, a natural result is a changing
employment landscape. Particularly since these changes are ongoing,
employees may quickly find their skills out of date, and employers may
find talent in a given area difficult to find. Moreover, as companies
outsource IT applications to the cloud, the need for hardware-level
IT talent declines. Yet IT remains critical to the business. As a result,
employers are increasingly looking for employees with business-related
skills rather than just technical skills. The subsequent blurring of the
employment picture can create some disparate numbers with regard to
salaries, hiring and so on. Nevertheless, the overall picture indicates that
in multiple ways, companies are doing more with less.
BY JEFFREY R CLARK PhD
THE DATA CENTER JOURNAL | 13
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