Comments on: The Cloud skills shift http://blogs.gartner.com/lydia_leong/2008/09/15/the-cloud-skills-shift/ A member of the Gartner Blog Network Mon, 26 Dec 2011 04:43:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Interesting Links for October 23rd — dougmcclure.net http://blogs.gartner.com/lydia_leong/2008/09/15/the-cloud-skills-shift/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Interesting Links for October 23rd — dougmcclure.net Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:02:44 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/lydia_leong/2008/09/15/the-cloud-skills-shift/#comment-9 [...] The Cloud skills shift - The routine drudgery of IT Operations is going to get automated away, bit by bit. Right now, many enterprises still operate at a scale and lack of standardization that means that it’s not necessarily more efficient to automate a task than simply do it manually. In the cloud model, the balance tips to the automation side, and the basic value of “I can wrangle boxes” declines precipitously. [...] [...] The Cloud skills shift – The routine drudgery of IT Operations is going to get automated away, bit by bit. Right now, many enterprises still operate at a scale and lack of standardization that means that it’s not necessarily more efficient to automate a task than simply do it manually. In the cloud model, the balance tips to the automation side, and the basic value of “I can wrangle boxes” declines precipitously. [...]

]]> By: David, Business Technology Roundtable http://blogs.gartner.com/lydia_leong/2008/09/15/the-cloud-skills-shift/comment-page-1/#comment-2 David, Business Technology Roundtable Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:12:23 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/lydia_leong/2008/09/15/the-cloud-skills-shift/#comment-2 Hello Lydia, I've just discovered your blog, and offer the following comment. You said, "The routine drudgery of IT Operations is going to get automated away, bit by bit." Granted, sometimes automation can help to remove the drudgery. Likewise, sometimes out-tasking a business process to a managed service provider can be the best-fit solution overall. As you continue to post on the topic of cloud computing, I'd be interested to get your perspective on the questions that CIOs should be asking themselves -- before they seek out a best-fit hosted or managed solution. Hello Lydia, I’ve just discovered your blog, and offer the following comment.

You said, “The routine drudgery of IT Operations is going to get automated away, bit by bit.”

Granted, sometimes automation can help to remove the drudgery. Likewise, sometimes out-tasking a business process to a managed service provider can be the best-fit solution overall.

As you continue to post on the topic of cloud computing, I’d be interested to get your perspective on the questions that CIOs should be asking themselves — before they seek out a best-fit hosted or managed solution.

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