Future-proofing your career with IoT
What can you do to ensure your technical skills remain relevant and in demand even as technology evolves?
For years, I've been suggesting that sysadmins and other technology professionals who want to stay ahead of the curve focus on:
- developing skills for the next wave of technology innovations
- routinely picking up some in-demand skills
- investing some of their time in side projects that may not pay off right away
While this still seems to be excellent advice, it appears that a specific focus on IoT should be added to the list. Earlier this year, Gartner predicted that 20.4 billion IoT devices will be connecting in 2020. That's just over two years from now and that's a lot of devices. Srini Vemula, global product management leader at SenecaGlobal, believes that this influx of new IoT devices will lead to tens of thousands of new jobs in the IoT economy.
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