Those inevitable evolutions in technology that your clients must embrace to stay competitive tend to involve integrations of old and new systems, software, functions, and processes.
These efforts often require long-term as well as short-term technical expertise. In effect, your clients require technical expertise on call 24 x 7 x 365.
Complex hybrid IT infrastructures comprised of network, key servers, applications, clouds, services, data, storage environments, and, yes, users require constant care and feeding to ensure that performance goals are met and systems and data remain protected.
As cyberattackers exploit new techniques and get better at covering their tracks, several types of cyberthreat now loom large:
Your clients need to plan differently for wildfire threat.
Because wildfires can occur with little or no warning and overwhelm a given location extremely quickly.
By 2021, cloud data centers will process 94% of all workloads and compute instances — and your clients need to be ready.
If you have a sense that your clients’ struggles with the IT talent gap have intensified lately, you’re on to something. Among North American IT decision-makers, 75% say they face a skills shortage, and few expect it to ease over the next two years.
How the IT talent gap hurts
Not all IT talent gaps are created equal. Cybersecurity and cloud computing skills are most in-demand and there’s little relief in sight. By 2022, the cybersecurity workforce gap will stand at 1.8 million. Lack of IT talent also plagues cloud computing, big data, analytics, and information management.
