After I read your post Gerry, I picked up CloudStreamingServices.com ;-)
That's a good pickup this late in the game.
Everything cloud will be streaming.
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Just as I had feared, cloud computing is also a form of outsourcing and we are seeing more and more cutbacks while adopting cloud services. Many mega corporations are cutting their IT staff to the bare bones.
The hospital my wife works at (huge, with 18,000 employees) recently laid off over 110 IT staff. Some of this can be contributed to joining of services into one cohesive unit - the medical school and hospital were each treated as separate entities but are now one incorporated entity.
But much of this is also because of putting much of the services on the cloud. I do not think they have yet put vital personal information but mundane repetitive tasks, forms, services, etc.
And this morning I was reading this story on Business Week:
"IT transformation," cloud = loss of 850 IT jobs at State Street
And later this comment left on the story> âDon't blame job cuts on the cloud. Blame increased efficiency (a good thing) and changing nature of ITâ
Anyways, for those that don't quite know what cloud computing is and what it entails and are blindly regging everything with the word cloud in it, that is a little snapshot of what cloud computing is. Rather than having a massive IT department managing servers and systems and installations in-house, that is going somewhere else. In essence, it is the new outsourcing.