Voice and Security, what's hot?

chapapa

I'am seeing voice evolving so what do you think will be a trend for the next 1-5 years?

sieff

I can speak on Cisco VoIP and there's a big move to cloud hosting services as well as unified computing servers. I think knowing virtualization, storage and SIP are going to be pretty common soon. I noticed there's more emphasis on "Big Data", "Cloud Computing" now. I'm looking to specialize more into that.

Master Of Puppets

I think voice is going to get even hotter. I often wonder what the market will be for security in 5 years though. You must have noticed that every Tom, Dick or Harry wants to do security now. I see it every day, everywhere - everybody wants to get into security and most of them don't even know what it is. When you ask them something they are incapable of giving you a answer that makes sense because they have no idea what's going on. They just want it because it looks cool in the movies and in the media. Of course I am not talking about people on TE because as we know they are not the norm. What I'm getting at is that I see the market becoming saturated. I may not be right but that's how I see it. Even when I go to the grocery store I hear someone talking about how he's getting into the security field.If it happens there is probably going to be reduced pay even though the ones who have no idea what they're doing aren't going to be the best professionals.

IT69

Virtualization,Voice,Security... I these being/staying Real "hot" lol. Though honestly anything could be considered hot, if you are really good at something and find a job that pays well for that , you are going to consider whatever you are doing "hot".

chickenlicken09

how does one specialize in "big data"? Any good certs on this one. Looks like this one will be around for some time.

Concerned Water

Master Of Puppets wrote: »

I think voice is going to get even hotter. I often wonder what the market will be for security in 5 years though. You must have noticed that every Tom, Dick or Harry wants to do security now. I see it every day, everywhere - everybody wants to get into security and most of them don't even know what it is. When you ask them something they are incapable of giving you a answer that makes sense because they have no idea what's going on. They just want it because it looks cool in the movies and in the media. Of course I am not talking about people on TE because as we know they are not the norm. What I'm getting at is that I see the market becoming saturated. I may not be right but that's how I see it. Even when I go to the grocery store I hear someone talking about how he's getting into the security field.If it happens there is probably going to be reduced pay even though the ones who have no idea what they're doing aren't going to be the best professionals.

Nothing bothers me more than guys with Security+ thinking they know security. Some people don't realize that Security+ is just a introduction. I remember one guy talking about securing a router but wasn't even at a CCENT level of knowledge. All theory but can't perform.

JustFred

I would be more worried about what i would still enjoy doing 5 years from now than whats hot.

Master Of Puppets

JustFred wrote: »

I would be more worried about what i would still enjoy doing 5 years from now than whats hot.

Couldn't have said it better.