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Your tech career depends on preparing for the cloud

If you're among the skeptics who dismiss cloud computing as a mere buzzword, take heed: Major organizations have already started their transition into the cloud. If you work in the IT field, you'd best prepare, as your very career could be at stake.

Critics of the cloud maintain it's not sufficiently secure or reliable to truly become a major platform. What they don't get is that their CEO gets cloud computing in a big way: It's cheaper, and the bottom line rules the day for your average CEO, especially during a slow economic recovery. Your company sells widgets (or whatever) for a living. That's the reason for its existence. Your company didn't want a six-foot-high matrix of hardware sitting in air-conditioned, raised-floored, supercomputer room with a staff of a half-dozen people to manage each major app.
Your tech career depends on preparing for the cloud | Security Central - InfoWorld
 

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More like - Prepare for your career in IT to be outsourced for the "Cloud" (for those in IT in the U.S. that is).

I guarantee there will be much more off-site IT work with the "Cloud" - and I wouldn't be surprised if that meant more "Cloud" like IT components and needs.

My big question is:

Are IT related courses of study preparing students for the "Cloud"?

Colleges/Universities? CompTIA? MS? Cisco? etc?
 

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It's pretty annoying that they insist on this... even if some organizations are trying to use this doesn't mean that everyone would accept it... and they may be proofs of this before saying so...

What's the new stuff around the cloud? I don't see my carrer pending on this unless they want to FORCE every user to store their information there, which sounds pretty rude and suspicious...

See ya!!! :D
 

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I wonder how needs will be met (both technically and financially) considering they will vary from business model to business model (and personal usage as well)

Adding another argument for a tiered internet. It is going to be so convoluted and we know the infrastructure changes (and charges) will be trickled down to regular internet/Cloud users.

This could very well be a very bad idea on so many levels: cost, security, accessibility, privacy...
 

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They're just trying to bring computing to the Care Bares.
 

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There is no truth to any of our reality but what we want to believe.

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This may be true, long-range, but it is not true in the immediate future.
1) Connection speed/quality/bandwidth is not uniformly adequate for Cloud
2) Windows (and other OS'es) are ready for it yet
3) too many companies use blockers to keep employees from reaching/using online storage or cloud apps.

Oh, sure, you can connect and use Cloud. It's "possible". But there are currently too many hurddles.
In my opion, the best way to use Cloud is with something that sync's, but that runs locally. And this should be seamless, requiring no technical expertise. This kind of means that the OS has to handle all this, and account setup should walk you through a very short wizard giving the option of whether to store a profile/apps locally or on the cloud.
Windows 8 might do this, but I doubt it. Maybe by the time Windows 9 comes around, we'll be there. Maybe 6-10 years away.
 

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It will never work - Look, we are already having bandwidth problems because of one company, Netflix - Just imagine what kind of Internet Bandwidth would be required if EVERYBODY had to do EVERYTHING online - What a Joke :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Besides would YOU trust the "Cloud" with everything YOU have ?????
Not me - never.

And are you willing to WAIT to download/upload on those "Bad Internet Days" ????
Not me - never

And the Gov already wants to start regulating the Internet - Wanna Trust Them ???
Not me - ever

It's Google's "Wish List if they could have anything"
A Pipe Dream

And when does every household get high speed fiber optics for 10 to 50 Mbsec download speeds ??? So many are still on Dial-Up and DSL !!!

It will never work, in My Opinion
 

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Cloud equals "big brother"
 

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It will never work - Look, we are already having bandwidth problems because of one company, Netflix - Just imagine what kind of Internet Bandwidth would be required if EVERYBODY had to do EVERYTHING online - What a Joke :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Besides would YOU trust the "Cloud" with everything YOU have ?????
Not me - never.

And are you willing to WAIT to download/upload on those "Bad Internet Days" ????
Not me - never

And the Gov already wants to start regulating the Internet - Wanna Trust Them ???
Not me - ever

It's Google's "Wish List if they could have anything"
A Pipe Dream

And when does every household get high speed fiber optics for 10 to 50 Mbsec download speeds ??? So many are still on Dial-Up and DSL !!!

It will never work, in My Opinion

Cloud equals "big brother"

+1 to both of you.

I think once people realize that true "cloud computing" entails every single byte of data they possess being stored offsite with no local access, the tide will turn against the idea of using fully cloud-based computing.
 

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The "cloud" is a very bad thing, anytime you put your trust in someones hands other than your own your asking for trouble as far as your privacy and freedoms to do what you want. I wouldn't put my information there....It just one more step to take us over more than they already have!!!!!:shock:
 

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More like - Prepare for your career in IT to be outsourced for the "Cloud" (for those in IT in the U.S. that is).

I guarantee there will be much more off-site IT work with the "Cloud" - and I wouldn't be surprised if that meant more "Cloud" like IT components and needs.

My big question is:

Are IT related courses of study preparing students for the "Cloud"?

Colleges/Universities? CompTIA? MS? Cisco? etc?


I've just finished enrolling in University of Phoenix "Axia" school for IT (degree in multimedia comm), and nothing in the current curriculum mentions anything about the Cloud.
Won't start classes for a few weeks but if you're truly interested I could let you know once I know something.
 

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That would be interesting - I would guess if this big Cloud push is something the public knows about, wouldn't universities be scrambling to make sure their curriculum is up to beat and attractive for this coming age of computing?
 

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And the Gov already wants to start regulating the Internet - Wanna Trust Them ???
Not me - ever

umm, don't know what you are talking about, but net-neutrality is a good thing, and i hope the fcc will implement it.
Network neutrality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
aka, it would be a good thing, so companies like "comcast" cant decide to throttle your bandwidth or accuse the end user of major data connections.
 

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And the Gov already wants to start regulating the Internet - Wanna Trust Them ???
Not me - ever

umm, don't know what you are talking about, but net-neutrality is a good thing, and i hope the fcc will implement it.
Network neutrality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
aka, it would be a good thing, so companies like "comcast" cant decide to throttle your bandwidth or accuse the end user of major data connections.

This discussion would border on the political, so we probably shouldn't get too far into it. But I will say from a purely technical perspective that net neutrality is a very, very bad thing. It targets a problem (ISPs prioritizing certain websites according to financial agreements, which should already be prevented by antitrust regs) that does not exist. What instead gets the brunt of the impact are the practices that ISPs currently use to ensure adequate speed and performance for the majority of their users, say by throttling (or temporarily boosting) very large downloads.

I have to say, I use Comcast and I am always very careful to stay within the 250GB/month bandwidth limit because I share my connection with other people in my district. I know I would get very upset if my connection speed was forced down to 0.001Mbps for a day because someone else in my district was downloading the entire collection of Star Trek over the web.

Net neutrality will take those "major data connections" and force ISPs to put them in the same bandwidth allotment that typical everyday connections currently occupy, and it will be a disaster.
 

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I specifically joined to say that this is not going to be necessary at all. Far too many corporations are far too guarding of their intellectual property than to let the likes of Google, whom they see as a potential adversary, store their info. Call me paranoid but that is the way it is.
 

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Actually when you think about it what would be bad if only the OS was on the cloud, but ALL DATA was stored local and unreachable to the cloud?
 

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Actually when you think about it what would be bad if only the OS was on the cloud, but ALL DATA was stored local and unreachable to the cloud?

I'm honestly not sure what the point of that would be. First of all, the local data would have to be reachable from the cloud, else it wouldn't really be an OS at all. Second, why would you want the OS on the cloud at all? With all your data stored locally, what would be the purpose of having to access the Internet to get into the OS? What could the OS possibly do that it can't do just fine the way it is now?
 

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Actually when you think about it what would be bad if only the OS was on the cloud, but ALL DATA was stored local and unreachable to the cloud?

I'm honestly not sure what the point of that would be. First of all, the local data would have to be reachable from the cloud, else it wouldn't really be an OS at all. Second, why would you want the OS on the cloud at all? With all your data stored locally, what would be the purpose of having to access the Internet to get into the OS? What could the OS possibly do that it can't do just fine the way it is now?

Well that means that if you customized your OS you could access it at any computer connected to the Internet, but you could not access the data. I think I made a somwhat stupid coment because I just realized why that would be useless:rolleyes:, but what if corporations managed their own "private" cloud for use only on their network?
 

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Cloud equals "big brother"
Took the words right out of my mouth.

Personally, I believe this "Cloud" has a hell of a lot to do with the "Verichip".

I'll not say any more than that... :zip:
 

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Hi all
Corporate Greed will rear its ugly head again here.

First Genuine Cloud computing will require NO BANDWIDTH LIMIT -- however it seems more and more ISP's are beginning to cap bandwidth -- seems the days of unlimited bandwidth are coming to an end. This will cost consumetrs a lot more.

Secondly -- since the servers can be located ANYWHERE (including Planet Mars if you like) it's a SURE THING that even more of the I.T industry will be offshored to cheaper countries like India, the Phillipines etc etc (regardless of the quality of Customer Service) decimating even more of an industry that has seen literally hundresds of thousands of jobs in the West disappear in the last few years.

Any youngsters reading this -- by all means stay interested in I.T but if you want to make good money and also be in a position where your job is 100% safe and CAN'T be off shored -- take up Plumbing or Gas fitting instead.

Cheers

jimbo
 

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