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Cloud’s Achilles’ Heel Of Growth Is People Skills
Updated on 31 July, 2018
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• 4 min read
Cloud is undoubtedly the driver of the new tech economy. Be it SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, Public, Private or Hybrid clouds, E-Commerce, IOT (Internet of Things), Big Data or some iteration that at the back of it is supported by cloud technologies. Technology is both enhancing and reducing in cost at such a speed, that it is no longer the entitlement of only the large firms, but can empower any organization from small to large, from startup to established, to be able to revolutionize their customer offering and to elect to disrupt or be disrupted.
With this speed of technology, change comes a need for those supporting the business to adapt quickly and adopt new methodologies, knowledge, and skills to empower a company to take advantage of these new possibilities. Switching from Waterfall to Agile, from networking to virtualization to Docker, from hosting to IaaS & PaaS and from C, through Java into Swift, Hack, and Dart. To learn more about Cloud Computing, check out Cloud training.
Usage of AWS, Azure and Traditional Architectures
Take Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure as examples. It is extremely easy now to spin up these cloud offerings to run applications or to act as a temporary testing environment. However whilst easy, there is also complexity to address, from modules, security model, and storage approach to utilizing through to managing the user of these across an organization to ensure optimization commercially and that security is not compromised.
Why Cloud Technology is slowly taking over
A wide range of firms still relies on traditional IT infrastructure (locally deployed server applications and databases) despite the increasingly rapid rate of companies migrating to cloud-based systems. Digital Transformation seems to be on the agenda of most enterprise organizations, banded about as if it’s a switch to flick and a fast thing to undertake. However, the reality is far from the truth and accepting the change required and building the cloud computing skills at hand to achieve it, are barriers impeding a growing number of companies.
Change and Migration to Cloud
Change is hard to accept at the best of times, particularly if you have previously been the subject expert on a vendor/technology for a long period, to now find that is being disrupted at pace and your worth is diminishing either in your own firm or to the general market. Being prepared to let go of many years of acquired skills and accept the need to re-start and learn a whole range of new skills is hard to accept and many will resist, defending the status quo and hindering business change and their own personal progress.
For companies moving applications and services to cloud platforms, migration challenges are one of the top constraints affecting IT, as there are no automated switchovers on offer and customized internal or external migrations vary from mild to heavy development changes.
A strategic approach for organizations looking to scale its migration to the cloud platform quickly for business needs.
A quick example
Migrating a homegrown or proprietary application requires new application development and testing. However, if taken on with commitment, the move can provide faster more agile application development through DevOps and utilization of enhanced cloud features and API’s leading to improved application lifecycle management.
Cloud computing skills are in demand
As the demand for cloud computing is increasing there is a tremendous need for professionals to keep up with the knowledge and skills of the chosen cloud platform to propel their career and to deliver the migration project in a structured effective manner. Cloud continues to enhance quickly and even those in the cloud a decade ago are finding they are needing to continue to learn new cloud computing skills, such as the usage surge in containers, for which a Robin Systems Survey recently cited that 81% of organizations are planning to increase their use.
Big Data has introduced new approaches, tools, skills and with an expected annum growth of 60% (IDC), it cannot be ignored. With the increased volume of data and continual crunching, demands databases are going to live in the cloud and demand new platforms and approaches.
Security, Security and Security!
With the plethora of changes from new coded applications and architectures holding vast data stores in the cloud, the need for greater cybersecurity expertise is an essential requirement. With the human element recognized as the most vulnerable area of security, the introduction of so many new skill areas will introduce increased risk of new security exposures. Software developers in the cloud must understand and treat with extreme caution, as there is a need for increased responsibility for security assurance and compliance. With the heightened awareness of security threats and breaches and the introduction of the new GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) in Europe with far heftier and damaging fines, getting this wrong is now going to be catastrophic. It is estimated that less than 5% of cloud applications are ready for GDPR, leading to a vast breadth of enhancement In a very short period.
Reasons for new security threats
The perfect storm circling this comes from the expectation that 30-40% of the corporate workforce will retire in the next decade, combined with a reduction in those studying relevant ICT subjects and the reduction in educations capability to provide effective education in the required areas. We have a rapidly increasing demand for cloud computing skills (to both support new technologies and to support the digital transformation from old to new) and a big % of those with technology backgrounds retiring rather than reskilling, backed a reduction in educations capability to attract and educate to the level of need required.
Businesses now have pressures upon them like never before! Markets that shift quicker, more fickle and demanding customers, users being influenced by or becoming millennials (who expect faster, quicker, easier, cheaper from the world they have grown up within) and disruption all around them from newborn firms who can attack with the gusto of using all the new world tech and methods, with no legacies to unchain themselves from.
Summary
Companies MUST have access to the skills required to be able to employ the full scope of new tech on offer to their business advantage, to move old creaking applications to newer form factors and to deliver a better quality of service and user experience to the demands of any device, any place, any time working for both their employee and their increasingly new breed of customer.
Unless the issue is addressed quickly, you can expect ‘Supply & Demand’ for these new skills is going to simultaneously implode and explode, creating a chasm between need and affordability, as those who can do become scarce and valuable commodities, available to the few who can afford!
We hope that this article gave you a clear understanding of how lack of people skill can be a weak point for cloud computing? To learn more about cloud computing, you can check out the other blogs and the AWS certification course by KnowledgeHut.