Impact of Cloud Computing on various people in IT industry

1. Impact of Cloud Computing on IT
- What will be the effect on IT people?

2. Impact on IT Departments
 Hassel free resource (hardware and software) provision
 Quick decommissioning of non-utilized resources
 Better utilization of infrastructure
 Less infrastructure management overhead
 Innovation is cheaper and faster
 ODC setup in Clouds
 SLA compliance may differ
 Regulatory compliances have to be watched carefully

3. Impact on Application Development
 System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) will evolve
 Application architecture should tackle network
bottlenecks for computation and data intensive
operations
 Application characteristics like multi-tenancy, scalability
to be targeted
 Application deployment to be considered from beginning
 Use of proprietary components of cloud providers to be
watched (may lead to Vendor Lock-in)

4. Impact on Testers
 Test environments setup made easy 
 But, need to test more things than before 
 Security and Compliance testing is a must
 Testing becomes more challenging with lack of
established tools and utilities specific to cloud
 Identical platforms for development, testing and
production. So no more “But.. It was working in QA”

5. Impact on Developers
 Will it completely change what I do today?
 NO!
 Will I continue doing the same what I do today?
 NO!
 Then?
 Understand new application hosting platform
 New architectural and design patterns to implement
 Dynamically scalable application development
 Data handling mechanisms are evolving
 Some new technology learning for various cloud providers
 Agile development model
 Application Management aspects –
billing, monitoring, auto-scaling, etc.

6. New Opportunities in IT
 Tools and Utilities development to support development
and testing for various cloud providers
 Data analytics (Learn to play with petabyte and zetabyte
of data)
 Application Migration
 Application Re-engineering
 Application Management like billing, auto-scaling,
resource usage monitoring etc.
 Market place opportunities for small useful applications

7. Thanks!
-Divya Sharma