Does The Cloud Reduce The Demand For Outsourcing..or doesn't it?
One of the effects of the rise of the cloud is that vast parts of roles traditionally filled by outsourcing companies are falling away. Simply put...there is no need (or a diminished one) for DBA and Systems Architects. The hardware side is basically eliminated. The article below makes the point though that there is a partial offset because of the need to develop middle ware which sits between the client and the cloud.
I can attest to that...just among our client we see that the issue of how to manage various cloud solutions and properly integrate them into an enterprise becomes more and more pressing. I also feel that the technical solutions are becoming more ambitious since there is no longer a hardware limitation which would have created a bottleneck in the old, pre-cloud days.
Does the cloud eliminate or create outsourcing/BPO jobs