云技术进步中的技能短缺

9月份，一位云专家（ACG）发布了“云学习现状”报告，报告显示，通过认证和实际操作能力衡量的云专业知识，无论对公司还是为其工作的个人来说，其价值都在不断增长。

ACG分析了企业团队和个人学习者的云学习优先级。该报告发现，人们普遍希望加快云计算的普及，同时对Azure相关内容的需求激增。

超过90%的受访IT领导者希望在未来一到三年内扩展他们的云服务。尽管这证明了采用云技术的好处，但企业可能会发现缺乏合格的IT员工来填补这些职位。

一个相关的故事聚焦于ACG的公司行为，以帮助填补在训练有素的Linux技术人员方面日益增长的缺口，该公司最近在今年夏天发布了新的旗舰云培训平台。该平台解决了需要基于Linux的云培训的技术人员短缺问题。它通过一个基于云的学习平台提供了一个全面的实践解决方案。

ACG为这份报告所做的研究包含了对其超过300万小时的使用数据的分析，并调查了26000名云学习者，包括IT主管、工程师和开发人员。它揭示了业界如何看待最流行的云学习平台、云专业知识增长的障碍以及云技能发展的未来。

调查结果显示，企业领袖们对云技术对其运营价值的不断增长达成了一致。调查结果还显示，绝大多数员工和招聘经理都喜欢公司提供培训支持，以获得云专业知识。

云计算大师CEO兼联合创始人samkrooneburg表示，云技术的采用已成为公司发展轨迹和耐用性的关键，这使得获得和留住云技术人才成为IT团队的首要任务。

他说：“为了确保我们的平台能够最好地满足当前的需求，我们求助于IT领导者和从业者，以确定在当今复杂环境中与持续云学习相关的重点领域和突出挑战。”。

商业利益突破

近四分之三（71%）的企业领导者已经看到云技术的采用加快了新产品和新功能的价值实现。

几乎所有（97%）的云计算领导者都相信，在云知识的统一共享基础上，他们的组织将更有效地运作。

几乎相同数量（94%）的员工更有可能长期待在通过技能培养来投资职业生涯的雇主

信息安全论坛（informationsecurityforum）首席研究分析师保罗霍兰德（paulholland）表示，许多与IT相关的领域都存在着难以找到足够合格或经验丰富的员工的组织。

他告诉TechNewsWorld：“组织内部的交叉培训是缩小技能差距的一个好方法，通过挑选已经为该组织工作并了解该组织的人员，这些人被公司的精神和价值观所接受。”。

个人福利概述

略多于一半（52%）的员工承认云认证扩大了他们的职业机会。

超过80%的受访者表示，通过云认证，他们获得了更高的薪水。

略高一点（82%）的招聘经理表示，云认证使应聘者更有吸引力。甚至更多的招聘经理（87%）更看重云技术而不是大学学位。

IT员工没有时间跟上新技术的发展，这就造成了上述技术专业知识的短缺。SaltStack首席技术官兼联合创始人托马斯•哈奇（thomashatch）表示，这也突显出，我们希望It专业人士比过去拥有更广泛的知识。

“过去他们只需要了解Linux，但现在他们需要了解Linux、DevOps、多个云平台、CI/CD管道等。虽然It和云操作的新自动化功能提高了开发速度，但它引入了大量难以学习和跟上的独特工具，他告诉TechNewsWorld。

“这意味着培训必须以强有力的方式在当今的公司内部进行。”

多云技术

企业领导者和IT工作者不应满足于只使用一个云平台。根据报告的调查结果，未来的技能发展是多云的。

近70%的受访者证实，他们的组织目前正在使用多个云平台。报告称，随着云技术的不断采用以及IT领导者们试图构建和执行这一转变，三大云服务提供商（Amazon Web Services、microsoftazure和Google云平台）对云专业人员的需求都在不断增加。

在这三家领先的云服务提供商中，AWS的专业知识被认为是最常用的平台。超过80%的人接受过培训。其他两大平台之间的差距很大，Azure占35%，GCP占30%。

同样，超过70%的管理员认为AWS是他们组织内使用的主要云平台，而Azure和GCP被确定为主要云平台的时间不到10%。

但调查显示，AWS最受欢迎的位置可能很快就会受到Azure的挑战。今年6月，Azure的培训时间同比增长了近800%，而AWS和googlecloud的培训时间为50-100%。

受访者表示，Azure是他们未来的培训平台，至少有54%的差距。但AWS和GCP紧随其后。

云学习存在挑战

该报告清楚地表明，在云学习项目的执行过程中存在一些障碍。只有10%的受访者表示，领导层的支持率很低。问题是在工人端，没有足够的受过技术培训的工人来填补现有的IT云职位空缺。

报告称，科技团队面临技能型人才匮乏，难以找到时间提高技能。超过80%的云计算领导者认为缺乏内部技能和知识是云计算成功的最大障碍。

尽管几乎所有人都期望在不久的将来扩展云服务，但只有56%的云领导者报告说他们有一个切实可行的计划，为他们的员工提供高级培训。超过四分之三的云学习管理员表示，指导员工通过云培训最困难的部分是在日常工作和竞争重点之间取得平衡。

超过76%的学习者对此表示赞同。他们认为找时间学习是扩展他们云计算知识的最大障碍。

为了应对这一挑战，近四分之三（70%）的学习管理者认为在线培训和认证激励是他们克服时间问题和促进整个组织学习的最有效策略。

ACG的e-learning平台总裁凯蒂•布拉德（Katie Bullard）指出，报告中最重要的启示之一是，在认识到非熟练劳动力是云计算成功的最大障碍与实际采取适当步骤实施解决方案之间存在差距。

“根据这份报告，80%的云计算领导者指出，缺乏技能的劳动力是需要克服的最大障碍，然而只有56%的人表示，他们有一个切实可行的计划，对员工进行云技能培训。她告诉TechNewsWorld说：“这种对比突出了行业对一种易于执行、全面且经济高效的解决方案的需求，这种解决方案能够有效地培训员工。”。

原文题：Skills Shortage Rains on Cloud Advances

原文：A Cloud Guru (ACG) in September released the "State of Cloud Learning" report which shows that cloud expertise, measured via certifications and hands-on proficiency, is growing in value for both companies and the individuals who work for them.

ACG analyzed cloud learning priorities among enterprise teams and individual learners. The report found widespread intent to accelerate cloud adoption and a surge in demand for Azure-related content.

More than 90 percent of IT leaders surveyed expect to expand their cloud services in the next one to three years. Despite this testament to the benefits of cloud adoption, enterprises may find a lack of qualified IT workers to fill those positions.

A related story focusing on ACG's corporate actions to help fill that growing gap in trained Linux technicians details the company's recent launch of its new flagship cloud training platform this summer. That platform addresses the shortage of tech workers needing Linux-based cloud training. It offers a comprehensive, hands-on solution through a cloud-based learning platform.

ACG's research for the report incorporated analysis of more than three million hours of its usage data and surveyed 26,000 cloud learners -- including IT leaders, engineers, and developers. It uncovers how the industry is thinking about the most popular cloud learning platforms, the barriers to growth in cloud expertise, and the future of cloud skills development.

Findings show a solid agreement among business leaders of the growing value of cloud technology to their operations. The survey results also demonstrate a strong majority of workers and hiring managers favor company-provided training support for gaining cloud expertise.

Cloud adoption has become critical to a company's growth trajectory and durability, making acquiring and retaining cloud-skilled talent a top priority for IT teams, according to Sam Kroonenburg, A Cloud Guru CEO and co-founder.

"To ensure our platform best meets current needs, we turned to IT leaders and practitioners to identify the focus areas and prominent challenges associated with ongoing cloud learning in today's complex environment," he said.

Benefits Breakout for Business

Almost three-quarters (71 percent) of enterprise leaders are already seeing cloud adoption speed up their time-to-value for new products and features.

Nearly all (97 percent) of cloud leaders believe their organizations would function more effectively with a uniform shared basis of cloud knowledge.

Almost the same number (94 percent) of employees are more likely to stay long-term with an employer who invests in their career through skills development

A number of IT-related areas have organizations that are struggling to find enough qualified or experienced staff, offered Paul Holland, principal research analyst at the Information Security Forum.

"Cross training within an organization is a good method of closing the skills gap by picking individuals who already work for and understand the organization you have people who are bought into company ethos and values," he told TechNewsWorld.

Benefits Overview for Individuals

Slightly more than half (52 percent) of workers acknowledged that cloud certifications expanded their career opportunities.

More than 80 percent of those respondents indicated that they gained a higher salary as a direct result of cloud certification.

A slightly higher percentage (82 percent) of hiring managers said cloud certifications make a candidate more attractive. Even more hiring managers (87 percent) valued cloud expertise over a university degree.

The lack of time IT workers have to keep up with new technologies creates a shortage of expertise for said technologies. It also highlights that we expect IT pros to have much broader knowledge than in the past, according to Thomas Hatch, CTO and co-founder at SaltStack.

"It used to be that they just needed to know Linux, but now they need to know Linux, DevOps, multiple cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, etc. While new automation capabilities for IT and cloud operations have improved the speed of development, it has introduced a vast array of unique tools that are hard to learn and keep up on," he told TechNewsWorld.

"This means that training MUST be carved out in a forceful way within companies today."

Multi-Cloud Skillset

Corporation leaders and IT workers should not settle for complacency with only one cloud platform. The future of skills development is multi-cloud, according to the report's findings.

Nearly 70 percent of respondents confirmed their organization is currently utilizing multiple cloud platforms. As cloud adoption continues and IT leaders attempt to build and execute this transition, the demand for cloud professionals is heightened across all three major cloud providers: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, according to the report.

Of those three leading cloud providers, AWS expertise was cited in the survey as the most commonly used platform. More than 80 percent trained on it. A wide gap separated the other two major platforms, with Azure at 35 percent, and GCP at 30 percent.

Similarly, more than 70 percent of administrators identified AWS as the primary cloud platform used within their organization, while Azure and GCP were identified as the primary cloud platform less than 10 percent of the time.

But the top popularity spot the survey indicated for AWS might soon be challenged for closely by Azure. In June, Azure training time was up nearly 800 percent year-over-year compared to between 50-100 percent for AWS and Google Cloud.

Respondents indicated that Azure was their intended training platform in the future, at least by a slight margin of 54 percent. But AWS and GCP followed close behind.

Cloud Learning Challenges Exist

The report clearly shows that some roadblocks are in the way of executing on-cloud learning programs. Only 10 percent of respondents reported low buy-in from leadership. The problem is at the worker end with not enough technically trained workers to fill existing IT-cloud job vacancies.

Tech teams face a lack of skilled talent and struggle to find the time to improve their skills, according to the report. Over 80 percent of cloud leaders identified a lack of internal skills and knowledge as a top barrier to cloud success.

Despite a near-universal expectation of expanding cloud services in the near future, only 56 percent of cloud leaders reported having an actionable plan to provide advanced training to their workforce. Over three-quarters of cloud learning administrators said that the hardest part about guiding employees through cloud training is balancing competing priorities with day-to-day work.

That sentiment was echoed by more than 76 percent of learners. They identified finding time to study as the biggest barrier to expanding their cloud knowledge.

To combat that challenge, almost three-quarters (70 percent) of learning administrators identified online training and certification incentives as their most effective strategies for overcoming the time problem and advancing learning throughout the organization.

One of the most significant revelations in the report is the gap between knowing that an unskilled workforce is the biggest barrier to cloud success and physically taking the proper steps to implement a solution, noted Katie Bullard, president of the e-learning platform at ACG.

"Per the report, 80 percent of cloud leaders point to an unskilled workforce as the biggest hurdle to overcome, yet only 56 percent of them report having an actionable plan to train their employees on cloud skills. This contrast highlights the growing industry need for an easy-to-execute, comprehensive, and cost-effective solution that efficiently trains employees," she told TechNewsWorld.

作者：Jack M. Germain

原文网址：https://www.technewsworld.com/story/86906.html