governments need to undergo a digital revolution in order to survive, but that talent gaps put them in a challenging predicament. For South Africa’s public sector, already lagging in terms of cloud adoption and optimisation, a lack of skilled resources is a serious concern. Amid plans to undergo digital transformation and cloud migration, skills gaps threaten to put the brakes on progress.
Reports that skilled South Africans are now leaving the country in larger numbers add yet another challenge for those already grappling with high-level IT skills shortages.IBM Transformation Index: State of Cloud Of course, this addresses only part of the cloud skills challenge. Planning, building and managing the hybrid, multi-cloud environment requires specialised advisory, technical and implementation skills.
With managed infrastructure and cloud services, public sector organisations gain access to industry experts specialising in the deployment and management of facilities, compute environments, storage, backup, cloud brokerage services, OEM technical services and disaster recovery services and cloud-centric networking across public, private and hybrid cloud.