What skill sets are required for IT professionals to take their career graph upwards in 2010?

In this era, many organizations are seeking to implement virtualization and cloud computing. With the cloud computing space now taking shape it's difficult for enterprises to find pros with substantial relevant experience. So virtualization & cloud computing will be an expected skill set  & down in few years, it could even be a standard skill set of all IT pros because it touches different aspects of IT....

I think most of the recent inventions are happening on mobile phones these days, also with the mobile subscriptions on a rise all over the world, the smartphone segment is the one which is having a greater impact these days and Android will be the future where smartphones will be running on Android OS which  people who are having Android skills will be in a greater demand and with world's biggest companies like Google, Motorola and others working on it, surely others will follow and people having Android skills will be in greater demand.

I am writing this by considering not only IT sector but also for other sectors. The professions in IT required to learn new skills and technologies always, otherwise they are not in the field. Everybody should have an attitude to welcome the new innovations into their life to lead the better life. New technologies will provide better options and better way to represent the knowledge. 

All new innovations are already on there way to provide integration with existing IT solutions. To pick it up on every development, IT professionals undertake will be their selling point. Thats how I think.

Recently we are seeing IT co's seek out many candidates for Ruby on Rails, Python, PHP and other open source programming skills as the software sees more of a enterprise adoption.  As Open source software appeals to many in IT for its low or nonexistent entry price and mainly for its flexibility, and now that appeal is growing everywhere, according to IT talent experts, in 2010 IT companies will seek candidates with high-tech skills related to open source software.

from my experience companies are more focused on Risks in IT now and

professionals are in demand, also security analysts and BI professionals

Quality can be ensured by testing only. In the competitive market,only Quality product can exist for long time.Testing is very important part without testing software development is incomplete.Quality Assurance skill sets are required for IT professionals to take their career graph upwards in 2010.

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Importance of Software Testing

With new technologies emerging, the risks associated with them will help decision makers to adopt these technologies. Therefore, IT Risk Management Professionals will be in high demand.

No matter whether you are an expert in virtualization, cloud computing or mobile computing, but if you are aware of new technologies and got ATTITUDE to learn new things then you will be in demand.

The industry has not seen any upward growth since 2009. As c'fmed by leading company there has been no recruitment since 2009 and IT investements are already to the bare minimum. IT is expected to pick in 2010, but, until now it is not steady but still wavering.

So, IT professionals, should be always be ready for callous attitude from the non-supportive government and loads and loads of tons of lies and media exicitment and enactments from IT managers to keep their pockets and jobs safe.

The tech to business chasm and the chasms between business silos isolate good development and make it more treacherous. Improved communications raises the chances for making the right thing right.

Cloud computing, SaaS(Software as a Service), DaaS(Database as a Service), IaaS, IDM(Identity Management), Portal. I think these are all the upcoming technology.