OK - I admit: this is a weird one. Whenever people talk about moving to the cloud to reduce costs it's never about the hardware. The song goes: "You don't need people to manage the systems, the patching, the security - those are the real savings!"<p>But then I don't see the waves of people being fired - sysadmins and DBAs - since "you don't need them anymore".<p>I know the problem is more subtle that this - IE: we would need to hire "more" - but for me the question remains: has anyone experienced a case where moving to the cloud actually resulted in IT layoffs?<p>Edit: cleaned up the syntax a bit
Software isn't quite like robotic arms. The vast domain of user inputs and
the equally vast range of ways to satisfy them define a function that, at
least for the foreseeable future, requires lots of human TLC. The names of
the jobs may change, but we're all still manicuring the garden.
Some years ago there was a big one. Pls see here <a href="https://www.capitalmind.in/2015/01/the-inflexion-point-for-the-it-service-industry-long/" rel="nofollow">https://www.capitalmind.in/2015/01/the-inflexion-point-for-t...</a>