Research: Cloud Skills and Solutions Are in Short Supply

Security is the most vital function to running an application, more so than reliability, portability and cost.

As detailed in new research of 650 IT decision makers by Nutanix, nearly all respondents (95%) believe their organization would benefit from a solution allowing consistent IT constructs and operations across public and private clouds. However, the research also showed that many struggle to adopt it – with nearly three-fourths (70%) of organizations reporting their transformation is taking longer than originally planned.

Wendy Pfeiffer, chief information officer at Nutanix, said businesses want the flexibility to leverage the right tools – and clouds – for their business. “More and more businesses are realizing that a unified hybrid cloud environment – one providing consistent experience, tooling and operational practices across private and multiple public clouds – can break down silos and reduce operational inefficiencies,” she explained.

“This can help businesses fast track digital initiatives by providing a path to easily ‘lift and shift’ legacy applications to public cloud without costly re-architecting exercises. Those legacy applications will then also have direct access to cloud native technologies.”

In an email to Infosecurity, Eugene Cheeks, application security consultant at research cloud skills solutions short supply