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Cloud Literacy for the Enterprise - Cloud Expo

Cloud Literacy for the Enterprise - Cloud Expo

Digital transformation is about embracing digital technologies into a company's culture to better connect with its customers, automate processes, create better tools, enter new markets, etc. Such a transformation requires continuous orchestration across teams and an environment based on open collaboration and daily experiments.

This talk will explore and discuss the most urgent unsolved challenges to achieve full cloud literacy in the enterprise world.

Alex Casalboni

October 31, 2017
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  1. About Me @alex_casalboni clda.co/cloud-expo-literacy Master in Computer Science Sr. SoDware

    Engineer & Web Developer Cloud Evangelist @ Cloud Academy Serverless Enthusiast
  2. What’s “Cloud Literacy"? clda.co/cloud-expo-literacy A specializaNon of “Digital Literacy” It’s

    a moving target Not limited to engineers/developers It’s connected to knowledge and culture
  3. What are the root causes? Heterogeneity (complexity) Lack of real-Nme

    service discovery Lack of automaNon (IaC) Lack of agnosNc tools (vendor independent) No perimeter-based security anymore clda.co/cloud-expo-literacy
  4. One does not simply “Hire more Cloud Experts” 42% of

    US/UK businesses are looking to hire for Cloud Compu@ng skills 43% of these companies say they struggle to find candidates with Cloud Compu@ng skills clda.co/cloud-expo-literacy
  5. Focus on company culture and skills Skills rapidly become obsolete

    Training has never been more important clda.co/cloud-expo-literacy
  6. No Cloud, No Party “71% of IT decision makers report

    that their organiza@ons have lost revenue* due to a lack of cloud exper@se.” [Rackspace] * 5% of global revenue clda.co/cloud-expo-literacy
  7. The role of EducaNon How to fill the lack of

    skills and exper>se? clda.co/cloud-expo-literacy
  8. When should you stop learning? “Lifelong learning is becoming an

    economic impera@ve” [The Economist] clda.co/cloud-expo-literacy
  9. What should you learn next? “70% of the technical skills

    jobs require today become obsolete with 5 years” [LinkedIn Research] clda.co/cloud-expo-literacy
  10. What should Cloud educaNon look like? ConNnuous Learning Learn by

    doing (pracNcal skills) Self-paced Learning Vendor-neutral Learning Periodic skills assessment clda.co/cloud-expo-literacy