Tag: skills gap
The acute phenomenon of the cybersecurity skills shortage
Despite ongoing efforts to train recruits, it doesn’t appear that the cybersecurity skills shortage is going to abate any time soon. A survey of 301 IT and cybersecurity professionals conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group, an arm of TechTarget, on behalf...
MSPs can fill the data management skills gap created by AI
With the rise of artificial intelligence, an appreciation of the business value of data is now finally starting to increase. A global survey of 4,777 C-level executives and directors conducted by Accenture finds 90 percent of executives believe data is...
Managed Kubernetes expertise is needed now more than ever
As organizations embrace cloud-native applications running on platforms such as Kubernetes, it’s become apparent that internal IT teams are running into a range of management challenges. A survey of 500 platform teams working in organizations with more than 1,000 employees...
Cybersecurity skills gap continues to widen even as ranks swell
The (ISC)2 association of cybersecurity professionals estimates there are now 4.7 million cybersecurity professionals being employed around the world, making for an 11.1 percent increase year-over-year for a total of more than 464,000 additional jobs. At the same time, (ISC)2...
Cloud skills crisis creates major opportunity for MSPs
A survey of 610 IT business leaders in North America and Europe conducted by IDC on behalf of Cloudreach, an arm of Atos that focuses on cloud services and Amazon Web Services (AWS), finds 70 percent of respondents view their...
