Cloud Computing Skills Sorely Needed in Workforce

Grazed from CMSWire. Author: Anthony Myers.

IDC consulting has produced a cloud-based worker study for Microsoft, and the focus is on how new skill sets are still not prevalent enough in the workforce. More cloud-ready, if you will, workers are needed to fill many positions as businesses continue to shift to the cloud.

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A similar study was conducted last year by IDC, also for Microsoft, on how many jobs the cloud will help produce. The numbers are impressive, but now that we know there is a huge demand for cloud-based workers, it seems those fully trained people are in short supply…

One of the biggest hurdles to proper skill adoption is simply that many workers fail to grasp the full relationship between business activities and the supporting technologies. Despite the fact there are already 1.7 million vacant cloud-related jobs right now, companies are not filling them quickly, the study found. Additionally, cloud computing will generate nearly 14 million new cloud computing jobs by 2015, the 2012 study found, so companies have to prepare to both hire up and train capable staff…

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