Mensel: I keep hearing people asking, "Is the consumerization of IT the end of IT as we know it?"

A friend of mine who managed the Rackspace cloud mentioned to me over beers that guys like me will become obsolete in three years. Everything is going to be in the cloud.

Yeah, we're going to be getting out of the business of doing day-to-day desktop support. But our business is going to turn into the business of providing people with interfaces that they can plug their devices into. We'll be facilitating interfaces.

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In a traditional model, there's a desktop with a bunch of applications installed on it-all of which are configured by IT. It's a very tightly controlled environment.