

Many IT leaders accelerated their digital transformation initiatives during 2020 - work that translated into more cloud adoption.įigures from the 2021 Cloud Infrastructure Report from tech company CloudCheckr confirm that trend, with 57% of respondents having more than half of their infrastructure in the cloud - up from 47% the prior year. If you’re evaluating cloud - and most businesses should be - then you need these skills urgently.” Additionally, you need resources from various places that can help to control costs in the cloud. “Teams need architects - those that can conduct security operations, network, and compute - who know the cloud environments and can evaluate and optimize them. “This is about more than developers,” says Bill Franklin, senior director of cloud engineering at tech services provider Avant Communications. That’s not surprising, experts say, considering how many specialized skills are needed to advance and mature an enterprise cloud strategy.

Indeed, the State of Cloud Strategy Survey from HashiCorp found 41% of respondents listed the in-house skills gap as an issue, while 57% said the overall skills shortage is a top cloud challenge. 3 just behind cost and security concerns. One recent report, for example, found that the lack of in-house skills was a top inhibitor of cloud programs, coming in at No.
