Tech jobs still available, even in shift to cloud computing: TC Energy exec
Posted December 4, 2019 3:23 pm.
Last Updated December 4, 2019 3:24 pm.
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LAS VEGAS (NEWS 1130) – Are thousands of IT jobs threatened by cloud computing?
The tech jobs are different, but still there, even as companies move away from owning rooms full of computer servers. That’s according to Canadian oil and energy executive Chris Foster, Chief Information Officer with TC Energy.
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“It’s not been a reduction in people, that’s one of the things I think’s a bit of a misconception,” he tells NEWS 1130 at the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. “It’s meant to change the roles of the people playing, for sure, but it’s meant in a re-tooling, a re-focusing of what they’re actually spending their time on.”
Foster says money has been saved, but the biggest benefit has been improved problem solving, and faster innovation of the former TransCanada Corporation.
But, like other infrastructure operators, TC still uses in-house computers to control its pipelines, power plants and storage.
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