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2/7/14 10 Skills IT Pros Need for Cloud Computing | The Path To Open Hybrid Cloud www.buildyourbestcloud.com/147/10-skills-it-pros-need-cloud-computing 1/4 The Path To Open Hybrid Cloud Sign Up Free Bloggers Polls Resources Log In OpenStack: The key to building an open hybrid cloud Sponsored by Debra Donston-Miller, November 26, 2013 25 Comments 10 Skills IT Pros Need for Cloud Computing 5 | Like this post IT professionals have to work constantly to ensure that their skills are up to date. Today, IT pros must guarantee that their cloud-focused skills are resume-ready. And just what are those skills? According to a Forbes.com blog post by contributor Joe McKendrick, there are eight key skills. To those, I add two more. 1. Business and financial skills The intersection of business and technology is always an overarching concern, but it is especially so when it comes to cloud-based computing. 2. Technical skills With the cloud, organizations can streamline their IT resources, offloading much of day-to-day systems and application management. But that doesn’t mean IT abdicates all responsibility. There’s a need for language skills to build applications that can run quickly on the Internet. 3. Enterprise architecture and business needs analysis Cloud computing requires that IT pros cross disciplines, especially where service- oriented architecture comes into play. 4. Project management skills Organizations must not let the flexibility of the cloud lead to missed deadlines or amorphous goals. That could negate the cloud cost advantage. 5. Contract and vendor negotiation skills To deal with service-level agreements—and the problems involved when those SLAs are breached—IT pros need experience with contract and vendor Resources View All Resources Openstack: The Platform of Choice This infographic is the outcome of an IDG Connect survey of 200 US enterprise decision makers that includes adoption plans... Enterprise Grade Management for Open Stack In this technical detail, we describe how CloudForms offers you a unified management framework with advanced life cycle... Video: Your IT Journey to the Cloud Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure enables your organization to move from traditional to cloud enabled workload models, and to IT... Whitepaper: Cloud infrastructure for the Real World Cloud adoption is an evolutionary process that has been leading to hybrid cloud—specifically, open hybrid clouds that... Whitepaper: OpenStack and Red Hat: IDC White paper OpenStack is an open source cloud system software project that has broad participation from the IT Industry. In this IDC... Most Commented on Community POLL Are you using any public cloud services within your organization? Yes No Planning to within the next 12-18 months Submit

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The Path To OpenHybrid Cloud

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Debra Donston-Miller, November 26, 2013 25 Comments

10 Skills IT Pros Need for CloudComputing

5 | Like this post

IT professionals have to work constantly to ensure that their skills are up to date.

Today, IT pros must guarantee that their cloud-focused skills are resume-ready. And

just what are those skills? According to a Forbes.com blog post by contributor Joe

McKendrick, there are eight key skills. To those, I add two more.

1. Business and financial skills

The intersection of business and technology is always an overarching concern, but it

is especially so when it comes to cloud-based computing.

2. Technical skills

With the cloud, organizations can streamline their IT resources, offloading much of

day-to-day systems and application management. But that doesn’t mean IT

abdicates all responsibility. There’s a need for language skills to build applications

that can run quickly on the Internet.

3. Enterprise architecture and business needs analysis

Cloud computing requires that IT pros cross disciplines, especially where service-

oriented architecture comes into play.

4. Project management skills

Organizations must not let the flexibility of the cloud lead to missed deadlines or

amorphous goals. That could negate the cloud cost advantage.

5. Contract and vendor negotiation skills

To deal with service-level agreements—and the problems involved when those

SLAs are breached—IT pros need experience with contract and vendor

Resources View All Resources

Openstack: The Platform of Choice

This infographic is the outcome of an IDG Connect

survey of 200 US enterprise decision makers that

includes adoption plans...

Enterprise Grade Management for Open Stack

In this technical detail, we describe how CloudForms

offers you a unified management framework with

advanced life cycle...

Video: Your IT Journey to the Cloud

Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure enables your

organization to move from traditional to cloud

enabled workload models, and to IT...

Whitepaper: Cloud infrastructure for the Real World

Cloud adoption is an evolutionary process that has

been leading to hybrid cloud—specifically, open

hybrid clouds that...

Whitepaper: OpenStack and Red Hat: IDC White

paper

OpenStack is an open source cloud system software

project that has broad participation from the IT

Industry. In this IDC...

Most Commented onCommunity

POLL

Are you using any public cloudservices within your organization?

Yes

No

Planning to within the next 12-18 months

Submit

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negotiations.

6. Security and compliance

IT professionals dealing with the cloud must have a firm grasp of security protocols

and the regulatory mandates related to their industries, both within and without the

United States.

7. Data integration and analysis skills

IT pros may not be data scientists, but to take advantage of big data, they do need to

help data scientists hook up big data, internal ERP, data warehouse and other data

systems, and work with the business side to make effective use of big data.

8. Mobile app development and management

Organizations need to think about what kind of mobile experience they are offering

to customers via the cloud and how they would like to improve that down the line.

As enterprise cloud computing evolves, it is important to add two more skills to the

list:

9. Knowledge of open hybrid clouds

IT is not homogeneous, and neither should your cloud computing model be. IT pros

need to understand how to build and extend their companies’ cloud computing

infrastructure in a way that is open.

10. Understanding of OpenStack

In order to build the kind of flexible, secure, interoperable cloud infrastructure

mentioned above, IT pros must have a strong understanding of the technology

required to make it so. OpenStack is a key component. OpenStack, a collaboration

of developers and cloud computing technologists, comprises a series of projects

delivering various components for a cloud infrastructure solution.

What other skills do IT professionals need to have in order to enable their

organizations to successfully tap into the benefits of cloud computing? Are there any

IT skills that the cloud is making obsolete? We welcome your insight in the

comments section.

Debra Donston-Miller

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