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Will You Be Replaced By A Machine?

If you start thinking like a machine, you will mostly be replaced by one. There is current fear mongering that says automation will replace thousand of jobs. Yet, if you do a in depth analysis of this, replacement of human jobs by machines or robots happens only if you start thinking and acting like one. There are some IT managers who have, surprisingly, resisted using IT monitoring software for fear that they will lose their job to the IT monitoring software. Why? The simplest of answer is because IT monitoring takes aways the nitty gritty process of going into a system to monitor the health status of the device. Take for example your Windows machine. You can constantly monitor the hard disk space or memory utilization through the task manager. But would you do checks every 5 mins. Imagine doing that for 10 Windows machines or 100 Windows machine. Such dull repetition of manual work will make any IT manager a dull boy/girl. Yet the IT managers who fear such automation because they afraid of losing their job to a software that can do this monitoring effortlessly. If you take a step back, if IT Montiring can alert the IT manager before the downtime reaches the end user, would the IT manager now be seen as more valuable to the management than before.
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