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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Information Technology (IT)
They are talking about this topic: Industry Trends
The quotes below are about this issue:
One of the most prominent industry trends is virtualization through the development of cloud computing infrastructures. Employers predict this will continue to increase.
| "I sort of hate to use the word cloud, but cloud technology is also very big. I'm a little more of a traditionalist. The traditional sense of the cloud is that it's not the be-all end-all. Sorry. I think in the computer field every new technology that comes along, every new package that comes along, technology people look at it and think of it as if it's the cure to everything. And we're not convinced from our side that the cloud is a cure to everything. It definitely has its place, but it's not the be-all end-all of everything. There are cloud applications that we're looking at, but I don't know that it has to be our whole world." | Central |
| "You know, when I talked to small businesses in the C level, what they are concerned about is that they keep hearing about this new cloud. Where they want to move everything out of the IT arena locally into the global sphere, and they want to know how the two can coexist. When they double-up the other and move it over? Where do you get the right kind of resources with the right background who could implement that? So, they are looking at somebody to come and tell them, 'You know, you have your IT within your company, and now you have to move it into the cloud so that you can keep some of these things. You can move. How about security networking?'" | Metro |
| "I don't think the shift to cloud is going to centralize any software development or applications development. You can do it from anywhere. You can have people sitting in every city in the country working on the same application." | Metro |
| "Employer 1: I was just going to mention that, with the cloud computing, you lose a little bit of the control...or a lot of control, since you no longer have your own system in-house. Employer 2: But you also gain the ability to scale, right? In terms of what your need is for that particular resource. Employer 3: Absolutely. Right. Employer 1: And you think about the cloud, I mean, it seems like we're heading back towards the line of centralization of resources and what people are doing, you know? Software service and storage capacity now—just that trend. How do you think that might impact our workplace and workplace projections?" |
Metro |
| "Now, coming into play in our industry, a lot of the technical support is going to be all out of the cloud-based programs. And we're seeing that there aren't that many software programs that are available for our particular industry. It's usually led by two or three, and now that cloud is coming into play, it could very well put one of the key players out of business because they weren't the first one to come up with it. So, people are jumping to switch and it's kind of like the Sun to Red Hat deal. And we're finding that to be quite interesting. In fact, I've got to make a decision this afternoon as far as that goes." | Metro |
| "We've seen a tremendous growth in training and in Red Hat and the whole virtualized infrastructure. I mean, five years ago it was a very different landscape than it is now. Now, you've got cloud computing and things like that. That just takes it to the next level." | Metro |
| "Employer 1: I hate to say this, but I think some of that hardware, that physical stuff, is going away. We no longer have physical hardware; we are a fairly virtualized company. We're even over on Amazon's cloud, and we've got our own data center. We have a virtualized machine growing out of it. Employer 2: We literally went from probably having 150 servers sitting in our data center down to two racks. It's just amazing how the game has changed." |
Metro |
| "It's never existed before, this type of job. It's never existed in this economy before. Subscription people. There were no people like that a year-and-a-half to two years ago. Now, with everything going software, there's a service. You know, this cloud-based software. You have customer expectations on how you can sort of pick and choose..." | Metro |
| "Well, for example, we do a lot with Google. So, we do a lot with cloud computing and cloud based infrastructure." | Metro |
| "Huge implementations are going on in cloud that are creating a huge demand, and there's a huge backing of talent. I think if you look at it more from those kinds of perspectives—you know, some of the cloud computing and some of the new directions—those are fine ways to talk about programing around that. I think that might start feeding more relevant talent to the local market place." | Metro |
| "Going forward, I see less of a need for network and hardware oriented jobs. I think more and more of our networking is going to move into data centers and more virtual cloud-based solutions. And I think the applications themselves—we have a lot of infrastructure around right now that is going to start migrating to more subscription-based solutions—so, knowing how to be a DVA or knowing how to be a SAP-based person and those types of things, I think, are going to be less relevant ten years from now. Because we will lease those applications." | Metro |
| "Question: In the next few years, what are some of the big trends that you see occurring that could affect your workforce? Employer: The cloud. That's the current trend. Cloud computing." |
Southwest |
| "Employer: Cloud computing is a buzzword. So, if somebody walks into my office and says, 'I know cloud computing,' I would laugh at him or her. That wouldn't be a very good statement to make in most cases. I would ask, 'What is it you know about cloud computing? And how does it work?' Question: What particular skills does it involve? Employer: Pretty much the skill set we're talking about today." |
Southwest |
| "The cloud basically pretty much covers all of those jobs wrapped up in one way or another. All the skills that are required to make it all happen. The cloud is going to centralize services in Minneapolis. When you log into your computer, you're going to pull up Windows from Minneapolis or wherever you may be sitting. It doesn't reside on your computer anymore." | Southwest |
| "Question: If we think about centralization of services and the storage or application, do you think that's going to mean a concentration of a fewer number of employers or certain occupations? In other words, not every organization is going to need network folks because it's a subscription-based service. But the providers of the services will still need those folks. So, do you see any occupations that will become more concentrated? Employer: That's a tough one. It really is right now because I don't know that cloud computing is talked a lot about and there's the movement into it, but it's still relatively young. I don't know that there's a good answer to that question today. Theoretically, that's the goal. As you centralize and move your services out to some other location, you shouldn't have the need of that expertise in-house anymore." |
Southwest |
| "What we have found is that clients don't want to move everything to the cloud. They're maybe going to do one or two applications—maybe to QuickBooks or something like that—but the infrastructure just isn't there to move everything to the cloud. So, it's going to be some time..." | Southwest |
| "From my perspective, it's a bit different because we do the infrastructure. So, it's going to increase the demand for our services because the infrastructure that provides the bandwidth or the wireless services is going to put more demands on the infrastructure. So, we're going to have to find new ways to either increase bandwidth through equipment or build out new infrastructure to service the needs of the cloud, if it grows at the rate that we project." | Southwest |
| "I think cloud computing is interesting, but it speaks to kind of a larger movement that a lot of things are being centralized. That's kind of what's always happening in IT. We're centralizing, we're extracting more and more as time goes on. I think a lot of times the really technical stuff maybe isn't needed quite as much. I think it may trend that way at maybe a higher level like management." | Southwest |