Todd Thibodeaux heads CompTIA, one of the IT industry’s top trade associations and provider of training and certification programs for industry professionals. As the leader of such an influential group, he has a front-row seat to the emergence of transformative new technologies and how they impact IT organizations.
Sync spoke with Thibodeaux about recent developments in cloud computing, mobility, and social media; what these technologies mean for IT departments; and the skills and attributes that IT workers of the future must possess. “The last five years have been some of the most innovative in the history of the industry,” he says. “But the opportunities that are likely to come in the next ten years will make the past five look like we were in the Stone Age.”
How are cloud computing and mobility, two major transformative technologies, changing the mission of IT departments?
Initially, a lot of IT professionals were a little apprehensive about the cloud because it would put infrastructure out of their reach. They were concerned that it would impact their long-term job prospects. They were wondering if they would have the same level of control. IT professionals tend to be kind of control freaks in some situations.