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Story: HP: Cloud computing will cut 'dull' IT jobs
These things always sound great when spun this way
It's all very well for HP to talk of this utopia where everything is done by magic in a far off data center but where do we get these 'fewer people with different skills' when they don't have any entry level jobs to get trained up on. This is the main reason our IT industry in the UK is in such a bad state, we have effectively moved all the entry level jobs to India so there is no way for people to get into IT in this country. Ultimately this kind of thinking is killing the industry for some short term 'perceived' cost savings. One of my clients has recently moved to a virtualised setup and is currently going through the pain of having to work with it. I can tell you from experience it waists more money in loss of productivity than it will ever save. This is not a half baked implementation either but a leading edge setup which is failing to deliver. Of the people I come across using this technology I am hearing more bad than good news, unless of course you speak to the management that had it installed, in which case it is invariably excellent, but then they like HP don't actually have to use it.
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