Yesterday, I had the opportunity to see Scott Lowe (http://blog.scottlowe.org/) present the Keynote at the SoCal VMUG users conference. The Keynote was titled Closing the Cloud Skills Gap and he "kept it real"
Below are some key facts that ALL Technologists should consider:
Virtually all IT job growth will be in cloud services (26%).
Top Skills in Cloud Services:
1. Risk Management
2. IT Service Management
3. Project/Program Management
4. Business - IT alignment
5. Technical skills in the Cloud (Ok, the low ranking of technical skills surprised me - KU)
IT Alignment:
1. Talk to the Business. What are their goals and challenges.
2. Dont use IT Jargon. They don't care. (IOPs, TB, PB)
3. Try to say "Yes". Solve the problem. Offer some options and have them make the decision. Saying "NO" is asking for Shadow IT.
Technical Skills Needed:
1. Software Development Basics - ex. promoting from dev --> prod.
2. Linux - Ubuntu, Red Hat, CentOS. (WD-40).
3. Automation and Orchestration - PowerShell, Python, Ruby. Configuration management - Puppet, Chef. No "Snow Flake Servers". No more "Hand Crafted" efforts.
4. Public Cloud Services - vCloud Air, AWS, Azure.
All of us need to take a good look at ourselves. We need to make sure we evolve and gain new skills.
Some neat phrases I picked up during the conference:
"If you don't like change, you will like irrelevance less" (See above - KU)
"Security puts the "NO" in "Innovation"
"One throat to choke"
Phrases I'm tired of:
"Software Defined ANYTHING"
"Single pane of glass"
"Game Changer"
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