{"id":10803,"date":"2014-05-18T23:36:27","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T23:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/may\/19\/cloud-skills-gap-getting-wider-argues-interoute-exec\/"},"modified":"2014-05-18T23:36:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T23:36:27","slug":"the-cloud-skills-gap-is-getting-wider-argues-interoute-exec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/the-cloud-skills-gap-is-getting-wider-argues-interoute-exec\/","title":{"rendered":"The cloud skills gap is getting wider, argues Interoute exec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;Anyone starting a company right now would have to be completely bonkers to build their own infrastructure,&rdquo; roars Interoute chief technical officer Matthew Finnie.<\/p>\n<p>Finnie is a man never short of an opinion or two, and with the number of born in the cloud companies increasing, this seems like a pretty safe bet. But here&rsquo;s another view: the skills gap in the industry continues to get bigger.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;ve almost got two- or three-speed adoption to the cloud,&rdquo; he tells <em>CloudTech<\/em>. &ldquo;You&rsquo;ve got a bunch of early adopters, guys at Dropbox, Netflix who&rsquo;ve embraced it and done very well on the back of it. You&rsquo;ve then got a middle tier, and then you&rsquo;ve got a group of, more generally speaking, enterprise guys, who are circumspect about the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And I think to some extent, what you&rsquo;re looking at is some of the cynicism, or &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;Anyone starting a company right now would have to be completely bonkers to build their own infrastructure,&rdquo; roars Interoute chief technical officer Matthew Finnie.<br \/>\nFinnie is a man never short of an opinion or two, and with the number of bo&#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-10803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10803","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=10803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}