As cloud grows, IT hiring flatlines

[Newsjock]

Source: Computerworld

Corporate IT departments are increasing their spending on hardware and cloud services, but not on new hiring in this weak economy.

... Businesses are increasing spending on hardware as well and making up ground that was lost during the recession.

... But is this spending helping IT hiring? Not yet.

According to U.S. government labor data, unemployment among IT professionals is exceeding other professions' levels.

Unemployment for computer programmers, for instance, finished at 5.7% last year, compared with 2.2% in 2007, according to government data.

Read more: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9210140/As_cloud_grows_IT_hiring_flatlines

[Luminous Animal]

1. Clouds are the new assembly lines.

Replacing skill and original thought with rote.

[Taverner]

3. "The Cloud" is not a new idea

It was called "hosting" until recently

[Luminous Animal]

4. Never claimed it was a new idea.

[Taverner]

9. Never said you claimed that

I just like calling a spade a spade - I'm in the industry and this is one of the biggest blows to the IT industry.

We should have unionized. We didn't and now look at it.

[Luminous Animal]

11. We are on the same side but we don't know it! I agree, This is one of the biggest blows to the IT..

industry.

And yes, you should have unionized years ago.

[glinda]

5. Didn't it come from NASA and IT corporate entities? Government then and

will be more Government now?

[Taverner]

8. That's Arpanet, which became the internet

"The Cloud" is just hosting services. Like company A doesn't want to hire a staff to keep up Microsoft Exchange. So they outsource it to a hosting company. That means the hosting company keeps it up, and charges the other company money in exchange for hosting and keeping their email server. It goes beyond email, but that was an example.

[Taverner]

2. Yep. That was the plan all along

More automation, less people

Truly rage against the machine

[glinda]

6. less privacy?

[Taverner]

7. Less money

IT staff cost money

If an automated software solution sells for $5.5K, that's way less than the cost of a human.

[glinda]

10. AM I wrong to think it goes through government related partners?

[jeff47]

12. Government isn't involved at all.

It means paying Amazon to run your email server, instead of hiring your own employees.

(not limited to email, it's just a convenient example)

[xchrom]

13. recommend -- and those are people supposedly who did the right thing

with their education.