{"id":186,"date":"2011-04-08T14:19:10","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T21:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/?p=186"},"modified":"2011-04-08T14:19:10","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T21:19:10","slug":"3-key-skill-sets-to-be-priority-of-it-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/3-key-skill-sets-to-be-priority-of-it-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Key Skill Sets to Be Priority of IT Spending"},"content":{"rendered":"

Multiple surveys continue to support a rise in IT spending for 2011.\u00a0 Another recent report is the Capgemini 2010-2011 World Quality Report<\/a>.\u00a0 We\u2019re already seeing the effects with large and medium employers filling up job seeker sites with thousands of new open positions.\u00a0 The following three skill sets emerged as clear targets of IT spending priority in the future.<\/p>\n

Mobile developers.<\/strong>\u00a0 It seems like the drumbeat of a new era.\u00a0 If people aren\u2019t buying new smartphones and tablets they are developing apps for them.\u00a0 The only people left seem to be those figuring out how to get in on the action.\u00a0 Face it, the emergence of the mobile device as an integrated part of our work and home lifestyle is an industry with lasting staying power.\u00a0 Investing in skills for this environment has tons of long-term potential in terms of career and employability.\u00a0 Of particular note are training opportunities like GogoTraining\u2019s Android Development Training Program<\/a>.\u00a0 iOS was the first fashionable one to show up, with emerging players being HP\u2019s new version of webOS due in the summer of 2011 and Microsoft\u2019s Windows Phone 7 already at market.<\/p>\n

Cloud computing.<\/strong>\u00a0 What does that mean anyway, in terms of skills?\u00a0 So far we\u2019ve determined two important areas.\u00a0 First is hardware and network management.\u00a0 Hosting providers are finding they have to ramp up on this sort of thing since things like virtualization, serving power, redundancy and storage are going to continue a robust growth curve with the emergence of the cloud.\u00a0 Next is IT service management, specifically those best practices one can acquire through ITIL certification training<\/a>.\u00a0 In-house IT staff at corporations of all sizes are going to have to beef up their IT service management abilities in order to understand how to better serve the greater business and also because they will increasingly be working with vendors providing cloud services.<\/p>\n

QA and Test.<\/strong>\u00a0 Of particular note, 72% of IT professionals indicated in the HP\/Capgemini survey that QA\/test people with a development background perform better than those without.\u00a0 This only makes sense; nobody know better how to break something than someone who knows how to build it in the first place.\u00a0 For software developers looking for a transition point, QA\/test is the name of the game.\u00a0 If you are a developer, getting training in Software QA and Test<\/a> would be a good direction.<\/p>\n

For training on these and other business-critical technologies, check out the GogoTraining IT training course catalog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Multiple surveys continue to support a rise in IT spending for 2011.\u00a0 Another recent report is the Capgemini 2010-2011 World Quality Report.\u00a0 We\u2019re already seeing the effects with large and medium employers filling up job seeker sites with thousands of new open positions.\u00a0 The following three skill sets emerged as clear targets of IT spending […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,11,30,5,26,65,71,92],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-android","tag-cloud-computing","tag-i-os","tag-job-market","tag-mobile","tag-software","tag-virtualization","tag-webos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}