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#DemandIncompatibility - While I was reading about Hiring Millennials , which is a huge shift in the corporate workplace, it was clear that once again legacy IT vendors just don’t get it. In today’s economy you need to not only be relevant to your current customers, you need to be able to attract the right talent to keep you relevant to these customers.
In the Bay Area the best people, not just the engineering types, are looking for opportunities to be on the cutting edge of something new and exciting. Engineers today are expecting services oriented architectures using APIs to build applications. Traditional IT vendors will struggle in this environment to give their customers what they demand. Recruiting talent to these companies with IT setups the “way it’s always been done” won’t AND can’t get the best. The companies that are not currently re-thinki
I believe that the biggest competitive advantage you can have is your people. I can’t understand how enterprise companies are going to compete with Twitter, Facebook, and Google for the top minds if the term “iSCSI” is mentioned. These new engineers want to take advantage of big distributed systems and want provisioning, scaling, and API calls that they can use as they need it. Forget about buying a silo’d infrastructure for (X)application, that mentality is for companies with 3 letter acronyms or had/ha