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One of the most prominent industry trends is virtualization through the development of cloud computing infrastructures. Employers predict this will continue to increase.

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"Well, for example, we do a lot with Google. So, we do a lot with cloud computing and cloud based infrastructure." Metro
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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