Just as manual labourers were replaced by the machines of industry in the 19th century so certain IT roles will be swept away by cloud computing.
That’s the argument put forward by Gartner research director Gregor Petri - who believes that many roles managing IT infrastructure will all but disappear.
Manual management of IT infrastructure - for instance provisioning additional storage, servers or network capacity for a particular application - will increasingly be automated as software layers in the cloud automatically divert IT resources to where they are needed, he said.
“It is very much like industrialisation,” he said.
