It’s an open secret that the pool of IT skills in the marketplace is shrinking at an accelerating pace. It is wellknown about the shortage of proficient programmers, but rarely is the dearth of IT administrators acknowledged in the trade press. HR organizations are highly aware of this growing problem. Hiring proven admins has become increasingly difficult. IT administrators are retiring or leaving the IT world in record numbers. New graduates lack the requisite skills, knowledge, and experience that has been walking out the door.
This problem is further exacerbated in declining markets such as UNIX systems like Power and HPUX. Even mainstream IT environments of Linux, Microsoft Windows, VMware ESX, Microsoft Hyper-V, KVM, AWS, Azure, and Oracle struggle to find enough quality personnel. Personnel with server, network, storage, interconnect, operating system, hypervisor, container, AI, machine learning, analytics, and application skills, knowledge, and experience are increasingly rare. It’s one of the primary drivers pushing IT organizations to managed services in the public cloud.