In my last post, I wrote about the crucial role network services play in underpinning cloud and managed services — and notably in enabling your technology services provider to wield a mix of customizable services they can tailor specifically to your business’s needs.
As you migrate more and more of your data to cloud environments, you’ve probably noticed a couple of things:
1 Data gravity
It’s not your imagination: as you’ve embraced cloud computing, the data still outside your cloud(s) really does get pulled toward applications running in your cloud(s).
As cloud and managed services play a larger and larger role in your customers’ IT operations, the state of their network services, which underpin these more visible cloud and managed services, is likely to become an issue — if it hasn’t already.
After all, your customers’ networks must accommodate new business-essential demands like secure application delivery, mobile user access, and end user authentication. These demands on networks often designed for earlier eras with earlier technologies can trigger problems related to network performance, application workloads, security and compliance, monitoring and management, and, as always, cost.
And when that happens, your customers will be calling you seeking a right-now-hurry-up fix.
In the industry of business technology, your customer relationships are crucial to your success. But to “land and expand” often means integrating capabilities or solutions that your organization may not cater to.
So what do you do when you’ve won a customer project that stretches beyond your current comfort zone, and you’re not sure you’ll be able to deliver?
Head to the Quest Partner Playbook – your go-to resource for those moments when you don’t want to leave a customer hanging, but still need a game plan for options and next steps.
Finding the technology skillsets you need when you need them is getting tougher all the time, as my last post attests. If you’re like many enterprises, you’re engaging more than one staffing service in hopes of ending staff deficits.
So here’s my advice about what to look for in a technology staffing services provider:
By some reports, hiring (and keeping) competent information technology talent has never been so difficult.
To an extent, technology talent struggles vary in degree according to industry subsector and location. Cybersecurity, for instance, faces particularly intense shortages of much-needed experts. Some expect one million cybersecurity job openings this year, and even demand for entry-level cybersecurity slots, like information security analysts, is projected to climb by 37% over the next six years.
