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Lamplighters, print setters, street sweepers and town criers… all jobs that have all but ceased to exist as progress has swept away functions or relegated them to niches. Electricity on a grid, electronic publishing, the motor car and modern media made these jobs untenable. However, they also cleared the way for new roles in power generation, page layout, sanitation and journalism. The increased automation of modern data centers will have its own victims at the same time as new roles are created.
In best-practice cases, data centers are automated to a quite startling degree. The mega cloud data centers belonging to internet giants are staffed by a smattering of people. If, as some suggest, cloud ‘bit factories’ are to this decade what call centres were to the 1990s then they won’t create nearly as many jobs.
But who will be ‘in’ and who will be ‘out’ as data centers evolve to become highly utilised, ultra-efficient operations?
If, as almost all of us expect, the trend will inexorably be one that leads to more cloud services and remote and third-party management of data, the first casualties will surely be culled from the legions of systems administrators.
Of course, there have been plenty of pundits who have gathered to say the same but the truth is perhaps a little more complicated. Sysadmins who add value by helping to interpret data, improve processes and generally think in an innovative and creative manner might well prosper. Those that do the donkey work of patching and installing fixes and new versions are for the chop as subscription-based services obviate the need for these tasks.
On the other hand, the automation of the data center might create exciting new opportunities for those with the necessary skill sets. Already the classified job ads call for data scientists able to wade through the oceans of data available today to better understand risks and opportunities, to conquer fraud, tighten security, spot trends before competitors and see the odd synergies and patterns in the carpet that can make all the difference.
The move towards the cloud and hybrid on/off-premise approaches to where data and applications sit is likely to drive some big changes in other roles too. There may be booming demand for people who can manage service providers or understand ways IT can propel businesses forward and communicate those. Freed of the old chores, some will figure out ways to make chargeback work in a meaningful way, demonstrating the value of IT to lines of business. A few will even mimic Amazon.com with Amazon Web Services and figure out how to resell their platforms to third-parties.
It will be a very different pecking order and a very different data center but for those who step forward and accept new responsibility it could yet be a golden age for computing professionals.
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