New IT Requires New Skills for 2015 and Beyond

January 22, 2015 Mike Lewis Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

As IT evolves from craft to process to service integration — new jobs, new roles and new functions emerge. The current move toward mobile, cloud, apps or app-like data interfaces provided by XaaS vendors will create the need for IT people who understand essentially every part of the information technology ecosystem. To fill the new roles, IT people will have to know the technology, understand the services, create relationships with service providers, know the contract support language, and grasp the underlying architectures that connect a multitude of vendors into one shared interface.