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Acer America Corp. is a computer manufacturer of business and consumer PCs, notebooks, ultrabooks, projectors, servers, and storage products.

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March 13, 2020 |

Wanted: Qualified Cloud Engineers

Research from Logicworks finds that a shortage of talent is one of the biggest obstacles to cloud success.

WHAT DO BIGFOOT and qualified cloud engineers have in common? They’re both elusive, according to the Challenges of Cloud Migration report from Wakefield Research and Logicworks, a cloud migration and managed services provider.

The new research finds that a whopping 94% of IT decision makers polled from medium enterprises say they face barriers to cloud success, with a shortage of talent a top barrier. Indeed, nearly 2 in 3 agree that it’s harder to find a qualified engineer than it is to find Bigfoot, and 86% say a shortage of qualified engineers will slow down cloud projects in 2020. A talent drought means IT decision makers have to worry about poaching too, with 86% of respondents acknowledging they are contacted more than once a quarter by recruiters and 77% indicating that turnover is disruptive to cloud operations. 

Source: Wakefield Research/Logicworks, Challenges of Cloud Migration, 2020

Other barriers to implementing a cloud strategy include security concerns (48%), the time it takes to make decisions (42%), lack of financial investment (37%), lack of defined strategy (35%), high staff turnover (34%), and lack of stakeholder buy-in (31%).

Respondents (76%) cite a lack of understanding among company leadership about the time and cost of cloud management. Some of the issues respondents believe leadership doesn’t understand include: the effort required for cloud management (49%), the time required for cloud migration (46%), how data is kept secure in the cloud (42%), and how the cloud really works (39%). Notably, only 18% of respondents believe company leadership understands everything about the cloud.

Still, 99% of respondents say their company will invest in the cloud this year, but indicate that tools are being prioritized over strategy, with 61% planning to invest in better cloud tools, while only 39% plan on getting more stakeholder buy-in.

The good news for channel pros? Forty percent of IT leaders plan to hire outside consultants for help with the cloud in 2020.

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