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Are all jobs safe in the age of converged infrastructure? Not necessarily.

As more large data centers move to converged infrastructure — which is offered by Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and other vendors — most of the chatter has been about this slick, new hardware and how it melds compute, networking and storage capability into fewer boxes that are more powerful yet more efficient. Less has been said about what that trend means for enterprise data center staffing, recruiting and hiring. Suffice it to say, it means a lot, both for the employees themselves and the CIOs and managers that must retrain them — or do away with them altogether.