Lack of Expertise: The Cloud Computing Journey’s Achilles’ heel

In the era of cloud, digital transformation and COVID19 disruption, time to market and cost optimization are crucial.

The presence of talented people with relevant cloud skills is a key indicator of enterprise agility, including the ability to deliver cloud services where customers want to consume them, on-premises and on the edge.

The question on top mind of several organization is “How to solve the cloud complexity journey?”

Organizations are either already facing a skills gap or expecting to. The matter isn’t just a changing workforce; it’s also a changing the way the professional services will be delivered in the future.

For next five years, insufficient cloud skills will delay overwhelming majority of enterprise IT organizations’ migration to the cloud by a few years.

Today’s cloud migration strategies tend more toward applications lifting than toward modernization or refactoring. However, applications lifting projects don’t develop native-cloud skills.

This situation has many consequences:

• Service providers fail to retain, certify and train people quickly enough to satisfy the necessity for skilled cloud professionals.
• There is a rising of “fake experts” phenomena promoting either “one size fit all” approach or “make it too complex to sell more” paradigm: the fact is that and 1 + 1 = 2 are exactly the same representation of simplicity.
• Addressing « applications cloud readiness » by porting them “as is” on hyper-converged platform like, lead to software compliance and high locked-in and sunk costs.
• The migration to the cloud is done with decoupled teams, on separated sprints and autonomously.
• Experts are extremely rare and only available for large and complex projects.

As consulting companies struggle to engage experts with proven cloud skills, clients are not able to achieve their cloud adoption objectives. System integrators can be a component of the answer, but clients often don’t trust them because many of them also are still learning and struggle to scale their operations to satisfy demand.

To overcome the challenges of this workforce shortage, organization looking to migrate workloads to the cloud should work with either managed service providers or partners that have a proven record of successful management and migration of complex workloads either on premises or on the cloud.

Why you should act now?

“Business application experiences and architectures — as well as the entire business software landscape — will change drastically in the next five years. The ability of application leaders to realize their application visions for the future depends on the plans they put in place today.” (*)

Also, by 2025, 90% of current applications will still be in use, and most will continue to receive insufficient modernization investment. Enterprises can’t afford to rip and replace their existing integration infrastructure. They need to have the ability to balance traditional and modern applications and infrastructure, so they need to team with partners with deep experience on their legacy and existing platform while adopting a cloud native approach and modernizing the frameworks of integration.

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