Over my 20 years of building IT infrastructure, I’ve seen IT professionals morph from jacks-of-all-trades to deep specialists. Indeed, I followed that arc myself. I started as a Novell and Microsoft pro who knew a lot about storage, security, networking, data integrity, and messaging.
I did “all the things,” so to speak. But over a period of five years, I changed into a networking specialist with a deep focus on data transport. If your data went through a device rather than to a device, that “through” box was probably my responsibility.
