Skills shortages a challenge to cloud rollouts, say CIOs

Grazed from Computing. Author: Graeme Burton.

A shortage of appropriately skilled staff is holding back organisations’ cloud computing initiatives, according to panellists at Computing’s IT Leaders’ Forum. Potential staff with the right mix of skills, or who can fit into the new categories of skills required to keep organisations’ cloud initiatives running smoothly – including the ability to challenge suppliers in terms of their offerings, architecture and cost – will be in high demand for the foreseeable future.

Rocco Labellarte, CIO at the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, described it as "bloody hard" to get the right people in. The borough is in the process of shifting some 350 organisational applications to the cloud and, therefore, the kinds of skills required of its IT department is changing…

"We are looking at a whole new set of skills," he said. "There are a lot of kids out there that have got the right qualifications in terms of understanding the environments, but actually getting people with the practical skills who have been there and done that is another matter."…

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