Outdated IT Skills Slowing Enterprise Shift to Cloud Computing
September 28, 2013
Grazed from Xconomy. Author: Benjamin Romano.
What’s the biggest thing stopping big companies from using cloud computing for their business? People with outdated skills. So says Simon Crosby, co-founder and CTO of Bromium, a cloud security company, and a panelist at this week’s Washington Technology Industry Association TechNW: North to Innovation event on cloud computing and big data.
Crosby, who previously co-founded XenSource, maker of the Xen open-source hypervisor used by services including the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, says public clouds are ready for enterprise IT use. But the people working in enterprise IT organizations came up in the world racking and stacking on-premises servers, and installing and managing Windows—”skills we don’t need anymore,” he says…
You sell to people’s existing fear set, he says, so regardless of how cool your technology is, if the person making the purchasing decision doesn’t feel empowered by it, it’s not going anywhere…
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