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As we close out a crazy 2009 and head toward a new year, there are plenty of things to reflect on within your IT career. Apart from shifts in the economy and how business adapted to survive, it seems that technology underwent a seismic shift as well. Cloud Computing became a part of the mainstream vernacular. For the first time, the hardware, software, and Internet bandwidth needed to support the ‘network as the computer’ became a realistic possibility for enterprise IT. While CIO’s will be tinkering with their Cloud Strategy through much of 2010, it also begs questions for what changes the Cloud will have on rank-and-file IT professionals as the economy comes out of its deep freeze. In this video segment, I explore some of the main ideas in Leon Erlanger’s July InfoWorld Article, The Tech jobs the Cloud will Eliminate.

Watch my video and give the article a read. Let me know your thoughts on what you are doing with Cloud Computing going into 2010.

Software development has a long history of change. Whatever the latest and greatest programming language and application development environment is today is sure to be obsolete within 2 years. When it comes to Enterprise Software there’s been no more significant platform release in recent years than Microsoft Sharepoint. In April I sat down with Mark Vogt, a Senior IT Consultant and Sharepoint architect in the Chicago area to discuss Sharepoint, the future of knowledge sharing, and his experience working with Hudson as an IT contractor.

Q: So, Mark I got to know your work first hand as a software architect and developer on our Sharepoint Intranet project here at Hudson. How did you come into contact with Hudson?
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