{"id":11783,"date":"2014-11-11T01:09:36","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T01:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/nov\/11\/most-uk-businesses-not-ready-move-cloud-cite-house-skills-problem\/"},"modified":"2014-11-11T01:09:36","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T01:09:36","slug":"most-uk-businesses-not-ready-to-move-to-the-cloud-cite-in-house-skills-as-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/most-uk-businesses-not-ready-to-move-to-the-cloud-cite-in-house-skills-as-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Most UK businesses not ready to move to the cloud, cite in-house skills as problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

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More than four in five (82%) of UK IT leaders believe they are not fully ready to move to infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers because of a shortage of in-house skills, with Microsoft Azure as the most trusted IaaS provider.<\/p>\n

The research, commissioned by Reconnix, found that despite the general air of reticence moving apps from traditional servers to the cloud was at least a high or medium priority for 88% of those polled.<\/p>\n

Yet there’s a problem – and it’s the dreaded skills gap again. Only 7% of respondents were confident they had all the required skills in their team to run IaaS environments. Overall more than half (59%) said they had only some of the required skills, no skills at all, or did not know.<\/p>\n

As for the vendors themselves, Microsoft Azure was considered the most trusted IaaS provider. 36% of respondents chose it ahead of IBM (22%) and Amazon Web Services (14%). Steve Nice, the CTO of Reconnix, described this facet as “surprising” by virtue of Amazon’s market share – yet recent market research shows<\/a> Microsoft is winning the race for second place in IaaS and closing Amazon’s share.<\/p>\n

“There’s a very clear desire for businesses to move applications away from traditional environments and towards infrastructure as a service providers, however a lack of adequate skills seem to be holding back many IT departments from making this move,” Nice said.<\/p>\n

“It’s natural for businesses to err on the side of caution, but this conservative approach can mean that many are missing out on the transformative benefits of the cloud.”<\/p>\n

Respondents claimed cost savings were the single biggest motivator of moving to the cloud with 32% of the vote, with greater flexibility (30%) and increased compute power (18%) also popular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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