When I met with Sean Deuby for an interview at TechEd 2011 we spent a good amount of time talking about IT professionals and their careers, specifically the concerns that IT professionals have with cloud computing limiting their job prospects. Sean was part of a new Professional Career Development Seminar at TechEd, along with Paul Thurrott, Stephen Rose and others which was designed to help IT professionals and developers position themselves for jobs of the future.
Sean pointed out that at the Career Development Seminar he noticed two distinct atmospheres; on one hand, the IT developers were rejoicing over the opportunities to develop for the cloud and mobile technologies, while on the other, the IT professionals were expressing their concerns and fears over these same technologies taking away their jobs.
In the video Sean explains how he and the other speakers dealt with some of these concerns at the seminar. They found that many of the fears that IT pros were sharing with them actually stem from confusion around cloud computing and virtualization concepts, which Sean explains in depth in his Cloud Computing 101 article. Additionally, the more recent article titled Is Cloud Computing Really Killing IT Pro Jobs? might be of interest as well.
Sean also touches on some of the career and technical skills that IT professionals should be paying attention to now, like PowerShell and tells a great story that Jeffrey Snover, the inventor of PowerShell shared with him about a sysadmin whose career took an interesting turn after he finally mastered PowerShell… but I’ll let Sean tell it.
Watch the video to learn why you shouldn’t be worried about cloud computing, why you should be learning PowerShell and how to bullet-proof your IT career for the future.
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