Infrastructure Guys - What`s actually hot right now?

[spongeym]

I agree that being a jack of all trades is useful in the Infrastructure world, but in saying that, have come across a fair few SME's, Storage, PowerShell who certainly know their trade and earn well enough from it, but when the contract ends they tend to spend longer on the bench looking for a role with that specialism.

Everything is going down the Infrastructure as a Service/Code route.

[Platypus]

I'm back in the IBM POWER world, cutting edge firmware-based virtualisation, sometimes it falls out of favour in today's Linux world but it always bounces back.

POWER runs Linux, y'know (as well as AIX and i). And now it's Little Endian, it's less of a drag. Much better performance than x86 as well (but of course, you know that).

EDIT: having said that, AWS seems to be as hot as ever.
Also, what about infrastructure design for open source databases like Mongo, Postgres, etc? Gartner are always predicting they're about to take over the world.

[stek]

POWER runs Linux, y'know (as well as AIX and i). And now it's Little Endian, it's less of a drag. Much better performance than x86 as well (but of course, you know that).

EDIT: having said that, AWS seems to be as hot as ever.
Also, what about infrastructure design for open source databases like Mongo, Postgres, etc? Gartner are always predicting they're about to take over the world.

Yeah we got it at current clientco. Think it does endian-swapping tho but I'm not sure...

We got AWS for web-facing stuff but it seems to be quite unreliable so moving to a private cloud. I've just started here so again not 100% sure I'm correct on that.

Think I'm too long in the tooth for new stuff that pops up every so often, always end up back on core OS virtualisation old-school, to me DevOps is scripting with knobs on!