How to Address IT Skills Gaps

The IT skills gap is not a passing trend. It’s not something that can be ignored by IT management. And it certainly isn’t going away on its own. These gaps are proving harmful to organizations. They can increase stress on employees, delay deployments, increase operating costs and harm customer satisfaction.

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How the Channel is Uniquely Positioned to Close Critical Skill Gaps for Cloud Success

As a trusted advisor, facilitator and broker of cloud solutions and services, it’s imperative the channel community help their clients understand that cloud is not just a technology change, but it also changes business processes, the skills of their people and every interaction between all three.

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Cybersecurity Supply Hasn’t Caught Up with Demand – A Decade of IT Trends, Part IV

Unlike cloud computing, the concept of cybersecurity didn’t burst onto the IT scene in the past 10 years. Securing data has always been of the utmost importance. From our inaugural survey to this year’s 10th annual IT Skills and Salary Report, cybersecurity has remained one of the principal IT focal points. Since 2011, security has ranked either first or second in terms of top tech interest by our survey respondents. While cybersecurity has always been a priority, managing it has changed drastically in the last decade. IT security professionals have different responsibilities than they did in 2008.

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