IBM Cranks Up Big Data Analytics Training Programs As Government Continues Cloud Moves
August 17, 2013
Grazed from CMSWire. Author: David Roe.
IBM is clearly concerned about the big data skills shortage. It has announced the addition of another 9 universities to its big data training program. The economic importance of the program was also underlined this week by the announcement that it has just secured a US$ 1 billion federal contract for cloud computing.
Big Data, Analytics Skills Shortages
The problem for IT giants that are currently muscling into the big data market is that the development of the technology has been so rapid the number of big data/analytics projects currently underway far outweighs the number of people that have appropriate skills. In fact between now and the end of 2015, IBM estimates that there will be 4.4 million jobs worldwide in big data support. At the moment it is not clear where all the people required to fill these positions are going to come from…
At least some of them, however, will be provided by IBM backed programs as Big Blue is betting a large part of its business on big data and analytics, and is not going to risk all that by a problem as easily identifiable as skills shortages…
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