Tackling the Cloud Skills Shortage

January 17, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from CMSWire.  Author: David Linthicum.

"Cloud-related skills represent virtually all the growth opportunities in IT employment worldwide and demand for cloud-related positions will grow by 26 percent annually through 2015."  Jennifer Warnick, news and feature writer for Microsoft, wrote these words in 2013. Two years later, the demand persists, but a skill shortage looms.

Skills Shortage and the Associated Cost

The report observed the skill shortages as one of the main issues impeding cloud adoption among enterprises. The dearth of qualified cloud-related skills to fill the expected vacancies continues…

The cost of filling the void either by training or acquiring specialist will be gigantic and may even compel organizations to adopt cheaper methodologies.  In such scenarios, how do enterprises, start-ups and independent software vendors manage cost and cloud skills at the same time?…

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