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Cloud skills: IT teams' lack of know-how is derailing deployments

All this time, it's all the working class not being bothered to catch up, what with having useless things such as social lives, families, time to breathe, etc...

As for the much malleable law of supply and demand, if everyone is saying x or y talent is needed, HOME COME WAGES STILL STAGNATE OR DROP. What a crock - as shown by the market's actions and market forces, rather than being told what it's supposed to do. Worse, workers need money to, you know, eat and get educated and live... do you want labor for nothing? How about doing your job for nothing and see how long you last.

Signed,
the working class fed up with the wealth redistribution from the workers upward, while noting corporate welfare and tax cuts and bailouts and other giveaways that also come at our expense.

This has been a buzzword-rich, content-free article.

Of course it is IT's fault, as usual.

The suits need a scapegoat for believing consultants who sold them the idea that they could outsource everything to the cloud and wouldn't need Grumpy Whiny IT Geeks.

Now they're getting stuck up the creek without a paddle (as seen here:
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/cio-insights/businesses-caught-out-by-the-complexity-of-cloud/39749797?tag=mantle_skin;content)

And who's fault is it? IT's fault of course just as I predicted on the discussion thread of that article.

It sounds like the person quoted mainly in the article wants to deal with 'Big Data' performance and size, but at a 'Home-Grown MS Access Database' price-point. "Where is the local talent (that I can exploit because otherwise they won't have a job)?"

Even though 'Cloud Skills' aren't defined, they even mentioned 'Core Competencies'. What are THOSE, so interested parties can even get a start in fulfilling these demands? "We need you to do something!" "What?" "You know! SOMETHING!" "Can you describe it?" "No... But you know what we want! Cheap!"

*Sigh*

closing statement "Rackspace this week launched it's open cloud academy service"
Coincidence, I think not...

Supply and demand, gentleman.

Your rules, your market, your big smiley face when it's you supply is being demanded of.

Who was it, who chose cheap, and who got what they paid for?

There weren't many specific examples in this article. The one specific one, about a lack of skilled 'big data' developers isn't a cloud issue. That shortage would still exist if the client was trying to find someone to develop for an internally hosted, non-cloud application.

I submit that many of the missing skills aren't cloud-specific as much as they are just skills in other aspects of IT that some one to take to the cloud; that these skills are missing from non-cloud environments too.

Update: I made the mistake of posting this before reading previous comments. I think info@ and Tony already made most of the same points.

What skills are specific to cloud after all.?

I can't think of one, may be these so called shortages are down to buzzword bingo searches...