Best Practice Report

Mind The Cloud Skills Gap

Use Three Approaches To Build The Talent And Teams You Need For Success

March 11th, 2020
Tracy Woo, Principal Analyst
Tracy Woo Principal Analyst
With contributors:
Lauren Nelson , Duncan Dietz , Diane Lynch

Summary

After a decade of cloud experience, organizations are facing a talent shortage for all cloud-related skills. Although legacy skill sets translate well to new cloud technologies, the cultural leap to evaluate, select, and operate for productivity, system-level efficiency, and workload-specific problem solving is proving to be a challenge. Enterprise attempts to hire and train talent are constantly plagued with poaching by the cloud vendors themselves. This report outlines steps that infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals should take to build cloud talent and protect their organizations from attrition.

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