A strategic road map for navigating the cloud skills shortage [Video]

Comprehensive strategies to attract, retain, and develop top talent in cloud computing to ensure sustainable growth and innovation.

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As I write this column, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics just released a bad jobs report and the stock market tanked. I’ll be honest, this news has me considering whether I should postpone retirement for another five years. I’m also thinking about how the current situation affects the market for IT people, specifically those working in cloud computing.

A recent HashiCorp survey of nearly 1,200 IT professionals worldwide found avoidable cloud spending was a challenge for 91% of this year’s respondents. The largest waste factor is the lack of required job skills, followed by overprovisioned resources (40%) and idle or underused resources (35%).

In other words, we’re forced to hire not-so-smart people and they’re screwing things up. The survey did not go into why companies hired unqualified people, but the answer is they couldn’t find smart ones, …