MANAGING MULTIPLE CLOUDS IS SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGE

It is difficult finding talent that can work skilfully within one cloud and creating teams skilled in managing multiple clouds will become a significant challenge.

The multicloud will increase in importance as more services move from on-premises to the cloud. According to research firm Gartner, it’s expected that on-premises versus cloud spend will flip by 2025. While this continued migration to the cloud is not surprising, cloud adoption will continue to accelerate in 2023 because of supply-chain issues requiring buyers to look beyond on premises hardware to ease procurement challenges and the need to pursue aggressive sustainability objectives.

The rapid adoption of multiple clouds is even more interesting. In fact, 89% of companies are using multiple clouds to manage IT services, operations, and infrastructure. This seems to be a place some companies have landed out of necessity, or even by accident, as they worked to mitigate supply-chain issues by linking to multiple cloud providers who could each help them drive innovation and ensure security, scalability, and flexibility outside their data centre.

This has brought about unnecessary complexity that companies will look to address through the adoption of common services across clouds.

Skills gap

More companies adopting multiple clouds means the skills gap will move from fierce competition between employers to retain top talent. It is difficult finding talent that can work skilfully within one cloud. Creating teams skilled in managing multiple

Walid Issa

Senior Manager PreSales and Solutions Engineering, Middle East, NetApp.