Whats your plan for the cloud skills gap? [Video]

Guess what? 95% of IT decision-makers say their team has been negatively impacted by the cloud skills gap. If that’s not bad enough news, by 2030, more than 85 million roles could remain vacant because there aren’t enough skilled people to fill them.

Of course, these are not new figures. We’ve been hemorrhaging skills for the past 15 years, and the advent of cloud computing—and now the resurgence of AI—has made things worse, thanks to several factors:

• The rapid evolution and expansion of cloud technologies have outpaced the workforce’s ability to acquire the necessary skills.
• Cloud computing is one of the most sought-after skills, and demand is outpacing supply.
• Traditional learning methods are often siloed and do not adequately prepare the workforce with the diverse and cross-functional skills needed for cloud computing.
• The exploding interest in AI drives many to deploy AI systems to cloud computing platforms.

Just give up?

Although this is a challenge for many IT organizations, it’s not unsolvable. …