Cloud Computing and technical skills, the marriage “that has to be done” today and always
The Cloud, as we know, is now an indispensable business model for those who do business in every sector of the global economy. Suffice it to say that the global giant Amazon Web Services has recently announced that it will invest up to 2 billion euros in Italy alone by 2029. The investment will support, on average, an estimated 1,155 full-time equivalent jobs per year by 2029.
This, therefore, demonstrates and certifies the importance and centrality of the Cloud in terms of business development and implementation. But there is a but. We’re talking about the technical expertise to provide their customers with an excellent and seamless experience on a global scale.
Cloud implementations are an absolute priority and this is also certified by the
Gartner
survey “2021-2023 Emerging Technology Roadmap“. A lack of technical skills is the obstacle that prevents companies from adopting 64% of emerging cloud-based technologies such as databases, serverless and machine learning.
That’s the scenario, and it’s quite significant that Google is training more than 40 million people to build cloud skills to help businesses modernize. As businesses prepare for a world that is increasingly connected and decentralized, the need to provide customers with unique and engaging online experiences puts great pressure on DevOps and IT teams to innovate as quickly as possible.
As a result, companies are forced to invest time and resources to upgrade existing teams or hire new specialists to implement and maintain emerging cloud-based technologies. Not a small challenge given the lack of adequate figures. And then there are the increasingly limited budgets for the realization and implementation of technology. The lack of talented technical figures prepared to meet the challenges of the future forces companies to postpone or even, in extreme cases, to give up on ambitious projects altogether.
Then there is also the issue of security. More than one in three companies face the challenge of managing the security of infrastructure across multiple platforms. A criticality amplified by the lack of skills up to the challenges that are gradually emerging, internally and on the market. This criticality emerges from the latest edition of the “Cloud Security Report 2022” published by
Check Point Software Technologies
, a company specializing in cybersecurity. According to this report, 57% of respondents say they expect to run more than half of their workloads in the cloud within the next 12 to 18 months. The report, which is the resultof 775 interviews with cybersecurity professionals, highlights how incidents in the cloud have actually increased by 10% compared to the previous year. Just over one in four companies, 27% to be exact, cite misconfiguration as the main cause of cyber incidents, which is the most common problem that precedes the exposure of sensitive data or the compromise of accounts.
