{"id":3515,"date":"2013-01-16T07:00:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=3515"},"modified":"2013-01-16T07:00:06","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T15:00:06","slug":"cloud-computing-it-workers-are-unprepared-to-take-on-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/cloud-computing-it-workers-are-unprepared-to-take-on-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: IT Workers are Unprepared to Take on the Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"

The traditional “IT industry career is in decline, threatening the careers of 10 million employees,” \u00a0said an internal memo by outsourcing company HCL Technologies and\u00a0quoted by the India Times<\/a>. \u00a0HCL’s Rajiv Sodhi <\/a>commented <\/a>that less than 5.7 percent of the current IT workers are ready to work in new technology areas like the cloud and mobile.<\/p>\n

Similarly, a\u00a0Microsoft-sponsored study by IDC<\/a> found that\u00a0many companies said that they’re looking for employees who are trained with cloud skills, but are not able to find the right applicants — as many as 1.7 million cloud-related jobs went unfilled in 2012. \u00a0The IDC study found that by 2015 the demand for technology workers with cloud skills would grow 26 percent to 7 million.<\/p>\n

Cushing Anderson<\/a>, vice president of IDC, said that<\/a> “Despite modest growth of the IT sector overall in the U.S., cloud-ready jobs are increasing as we head into 2013, but with this increase comes the harsh reality that workforces around the world are steps behind when it comes to attaining the skills necessary to thrive in the cloud computing industry. \u00a0Unlike IT skill shortages in the past, solving this skills gap is extremely challenging, given that cloud brings a new set of skills, which haven\u2019t been needed in the past. There is no one-size-fits-all set of criteria for jobs in cloud computing.”<\/p>\n

Adina Mangubat<\/a>, CEO of the Seattle-based Spiral Genetics, said that “At this point, universities have to produce people who understand the cloud. \u00a0I think we\u2019re seeing a shift for almost everybody. No matter what field you\u2019re in, biology or art history, you\u2019re going to have to understand how cloud computing works. I think we\u2019re going to see every industry dealing with data.”<\/p>\n

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The traditional “IT industry career is in decline, threatening the careers of 10 million employees,” \u00a0said an internal memo by outsourcing company HCL Technologies and\u00a0quoted by the India Times. \u00a0HCL’s Rajiv Sodhi commented that less than 5.7 percent of the…<\/span><\/p>\n

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