Want an IT Job? Add 'Cloud' To Your Buzzword List 187
jfruhlinger writes "There was a predicted uptick in IT hiring for late this year, but it's mid-November and it hasn't happened yet. Kevin Fogarty does see growth in one area, though: cloud and virtualization experts are being fought over, lured away from in-house jobs to cloud consultancies popping up everywhere."
clouds huh? (Score:2, Funny)
But only those with experience are wanted. (Score:5, Funny)
I bet experience is the key here. Only candidates with at least 8 years experience in managing cloud computing in a virtualised environment will be considered.
And don't forget to list your four years experience with administering Windows 7.
Re:Today's word..."Cloud" (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Yes, it is a very bad thing (Score:3, Funny)
Phft. That's just pre-cloud thinking, in this post-cloud world we currently live in!
Get with the times grandpa!
Beowful synergy!
Re:Today's word..."Cloud" (Score:4, Funny)
What the hell does a company actually do, if it outsources even it's own knowledge management?
The good news is that they don't have to know what they're doing, someone external will know for them.
There is nothing wrong with The Cloud! (Score:2, Funny)
Wait a minute. I'm a manager, and I've been reading a lot of case studies and watching a lot of webcasts about The Cloud. Based on all of this glorious marketing literature, I, as a manager, have absolutely no reason to doubt the safety of any data put in The Cloud.
The case studies all use words like "secure", "MD5", "RSS feeds" and "encryption" to describe the security of The Cloud. I don't know about you, but that sounds damn secure to me! Some Clouds even use SSL and HTTP. That's rock solid in my book.
And don't forget that you have to use Web Services to access The Cloud. Nothing is more secure than SOA and Web Services, with the exception of perhaps SaaS. But I think that Cloud Services 2.0 will combine the tiers into an MVC-compliant stack that uses SaaS to increase the security and partitioning of the data.
My main concern isn't with the security of The Cloud, but rather with getting my Indian team to learn all about it so we can deploy some first-generation The Cloud applications and Web Services to provide the ultimate platform upon which we can layer our business intelligence and reporting, because there are still a few verticals that we need to leverage before we can move to The Cloud 2.0.
Re:Today's word..."Cloud" (Score:3, Funny)
Cloud eh? (Score:2, Funny)