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> “The truth is, in 10 years, you’re not going to have highly skilled, highly paid people working with networking hardware.” I'm skeptical. PC/Server virtuali
by pragmatic 15y ago
> “The truth is, in 10 years, you’re not going to have highly skilled, highly paid people working with networking hardware.”
I'm skeptical.
PC/Server virtualization didn't make IT go away, instead it made the job more complex. Now you need someone to run the VMware cluster and understand the nuances of virtualization. You still have a bunch of servers to patch and backup. And you still need the help desk to fix the same problems we've always had (printer doesn't work, my internet is down).
However, you gain a lot of flexibility and agility (which is the point of the article).
I've just not seen new technology reduce _technology_ jobs. In fact its usually the opposite. We need to coin some kind of catchy "law meme" like Greenspun's tenth rule, Conway's, Sturgeon's etc.
- pragmatic 15y ago"Any sufficiently new technology increases IT expenditures by the amount*2 of anticipated savings." Meaning we get rid of the line workers making $25K/yr and replace them with expensive administrators making $60k/yr. (Slightly tongue in cheek).
- capitolhill 15y agoYou're right. Typically, greater investments will always follow improvements in efficiency, due to the improved ROI. If it suddenly becomes easy to deploy geographically dispersed, multi-tenant networks that are easier to manage the result will be more multi-tenant, geographically dispersed networks. Highly skilled people may not be working with networking hardware per say, but they will certainly be doing networking.
- gaius 15y agoHardware is the important word there. It's just commoditization in action. Like if a hard drive fails in your RAID array you just swap it out, it doesn't mean there isn't a well-paid sysadmin operating the LVM that sits on top of it. Or a node in your compute farm.