http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/careers-hr/my-career/news/index.cfm?newsid=8105
A recession for IT departments is imminent, according to an IT systems company.
Enterprise IT teams will halve within 10 years as companies attempt to streamline infrastructure and outsource specialist work, according to Dave Pritchard, chief technologist at Fujitsu Systems.
IT teams were due for a “big shake-up”, he said, with servers, storage and PCs being “managed more cost-effectively by external suppliers … to achieve lower lifecycle costs”.
I have mixed feelings about this. For some technology roles there will be job losses, but new opportunities tend to present themselves in other areas of the technology. I do wonder if it’s not one of those things, in the respect that a company might reduce the number of people it has within that IT department but find it’s operational costs remain similar. There also remains the vested interest part – don’t forget the power as a customer you have within your business – going up to an external vendor and making emotional comments about budget has less effect than walking into your CIO’s office and saying “fix it”, as a vendor/service provider I supply you with a service under a contract, everything else is emotion/noise. (Not being critical of such businesses). There might be fewer Windows guys, but more people in virtualization roles? Until we get to a truly redundant intuitive IT system where the application, the revenue generation is abstracted from the server/switch/storage or database, we will still need IT people to deliver this service. What I think we’ll find is a closer link between IT and the business with a focus on service delivery in terms of enabling revenue generation or efficiency in terms of cost/delivery – I want faster/higher availability at the same or less cost.
![[Post to Twitter]](http://www.bladewatch.com/wp-content/plugins/tweet-this/icons/tt-twitter.png){kind=icon}
