The Cloud Industry Forum and BT have woken up to the fact that skills shortages and migration and integration issues are causing problems for firms keen on digital transformation.
According to the pair’s study, three quarters either have or are thinking about digital transformation strategy in place or are rolling one out.
When customers talked about hurdles, barriers and problems the main one was around skill shortages with 59 percent thought they lacked the staff with integration and migration skills, 64 percent needed more security help, and 54 percent were lacking digital transformation expertise.
David Simpkins, general manager, managed services and public cloud at BT said that the research confirms that most enterprises have well-developed strategies aimed at minimising digital disruption and enhancing competitiveness.
“Cloud is clearly an enabler, but many organisations are finding challenges in achieving the agility and flexibility they seek. Unlike small organisations, who can easily be more agile and nimbler in the face of market conditions, change within large enterprises, whose IT estates are infinitely more complex, is much more difficult to achieve. Increasingly we’re seeing enterprises managing a wide range of workloads, combining public and private cloud deployments with data centre infrastructure, while at the same time addressing a range of new security threats. This is changing the skillsets that enterprise IT departments need, and it is clear that many will need greater support to transition to the digital age safely.”
