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Looking Ahead: SysAdmins in 2025

OliviaP
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This year has changed the way we work—from our roles and responsibilities to the way we interact and socialize with others. Responsibilities in IT were already shifting with instances of data center/IT role convergence on the rise. The SolarWindsRegistered 2020 IT Trends Report: The Universal Language of IT revealed security and application management are more frequently becoming part of day-to-day tasks. However, the pandemic has served to accelerate this shift. In 2020, we’ve been forced to adapt faster than ever before, and the growing remote workforce has complicated—and extended—the roles of IT pros even further.

With SysAdmin Day just around the corner on Friday, July 31, what do you think the SysAdmins will look like in 2025? We want to hear about your experiences over the course of your time as a SysAdmin and in recent months, and your perception of how SysAdmins have been impacted. What do you think the SysAdmin role will look like in the future—will SysAdmins become “Tech Generalists?” Will responsibilities change? If so, how? What do you think the new SysAdmin “normal” will look like, and how should we think about preparing for these changes?  

Share your thoughts by July 29 and we’ll put 250 THWACKRegistered points in your account.

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  • SysAdmins will still be SysAdmins.  We have always been evolving to meet the changing IT environment and needs of the user.  System monitoring will become ever more important as systems move to the cloud (well you do have to blame someone when things go wrong and blaming Microsoft / Google / Amazon, and being able to prove it, will allow compensation claims).  There will always be legacy systems that cannot be cloud based and some systems will have to be on prem for data or security reasons.  Automation will increase but that just takes away the daily grind and will allow us to focus on improving systems and plan upgrades and updates.  I really can't see automation or AI being able to deal with the increasingly bizarre ways Microsoft come up with to break systems.  Users seem to be getting more and more devious in the ways they break stuff too.  They seem to equate "having a computer" with "being a computer expert".  Hopefully the future will stop users from telling me how to fix things (television and movies have a lot to answer for). 

    I see my role as still being the person they turn to when they need help.  After all, cars have been around for a long time and we still need mechanics (and they are now too complex for most people to fix). 

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  • SysAdmins will still be SysAdmins.  We have always been evolving to meet the changing IT environment and needs of the user.  System monitoring will become ever more important as systems move to the cloud (well you do have to blame someone when things go wrong and blaming Microsoft / Google / Amazon, and being able to prove it, will allow compensation claims).  There will always be legacy systems that cannot be cloud based and some systems will have to be on prem for data or security reasons.  Automation will increase but that just takes away the daily grind and will allow us to focus on improving systems and plan upgrades and updates.  I really can't see automation or AI being able to deal with the increasingly bizarre ways Microsoft come up with to break systems.  Users seem to be getting more and more devious in the ways they break stuff too.  They seem to equate "having a computer" with "being a computer expert".  Hopefully the future will stop users from telling me how to fix things (television and movies have a lot to answer for). 

    I see my role as still being the person they turn to when they need help.  After all, cars have been around for a long time and we still need mechanics (and they are now too complex for most people to fix). 

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