We don’t need our internal IT staff now, right?

Incorrect.

Any migration to public cloud can create concern for IT departments on both sides of the argument. IT leadership can sometimes incorrectly believe a mass culling of IT staff can begin, whilst other members of the team will often believe the cloud is going to render them redundant and no longer required.

The fact is, any successful cloud adoption strategy should place the re-skilling of IT staff at the forefront, and it’s vital this process begins in advance of any migration tasks taking place.

Whole IT departments must buy into the process of upskilling and modernising staff to be ready for cloud. Public cloud providers offer free credit to start using their platform, free (and paid for) training events and certification programs to drive this process forward. Mass skill gaps within IT teams is good for nobody.

There is no doubt that more traditional IT roles must evolve as part of the process, age-old tasks such as dealing with Server hardware issues of course will be removed, but that doesn’t mean IT roles as a whole should be.

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