{"id":10514,"date":"2014-04-06T23:29:06","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T23:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/apr\/07\/skills-gap-hindering-government-cloud-adoption-survey-finds\/"},"modified":"2014-04-06T23:29:06","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T23:29:06","slug":"skills-gap-hindering-government-cloud-adoption-survey-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/skills-gap-hindering-government-cloud-adoption-survey-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Skills gap hindering government cloud adoption, survey finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the latest research from government cloud provider Eduserv, a lack of awareness and skills around cloud computing is halting its adoption in central government.<\/p>\n<p>The research, conducted in January and February of 829 civil servants, found that nearly nine in 10 (88%) required some form of training in order to take advantage of cloud computing, whilst three quarters (75%) believed the benefits of their cloud were a mystery to the company as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>The survey results also shed some doubt on the process of migration, even if government organisations wanted to do it.<\/p>\n<p>More than half (51%) of respondents said they didn&rsquo;t think their department had the technical skills to move to the cloud, while a similar number (54%) said their project management skills were fit for purpose.<\/p>\n<p>The overall effect is one of indecision and panic. Of course, given the survey is conducted by a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the latest research from government cloud provider Eduserv, a lack of awareness and skills around cloud computing is halting its adoption in central government.<br \/>\nThe research, conducted in January and February of 829 civil servants, found t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}