AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 15, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A Cloud Guru (ACG), the leader in modern tech skills development, today released the State of Cloud Learning, a report that sheds light on cloud learning priorities among enterprise teams and individual learners.
“Cloud adoption has become critical to a company’s growth trajectory and durability, making acquiring and retaining cloud-skilled talent a top priority for IT teams,” said Sam Kroonenburg, A Cloud Guru CEO and co-founder. “To ensure our platform best meets current needs, we turned to IT leaders and practitioners to identify the focus areas and prominent challenges associated with ongoing cloud learning in today’s complex environment.”
ACG analyzed more than 3 million hours of its usage data and surveyed 26,000 cloud learners—including IT leaders, engineers and developers—to uncover how the industry is thinking about the most popular cloud learning platforms, the barriers to growth in cloud expertise and the future of cloud skills development. Findings include:
Cloud Expertise Brings Rising Value To Businesses And Employees
It’s clear that cloud expertise, measured via certifications and hands-on expertise, is growing in value for both companies and the individuals who work for them. In fact, over 90% of IT leaders surveyed expect to expand their cloud services in the next one to three years, a testament to the benefits of cloud adoption.
Benefits for Businesses
Benefits for Individuals
The Future Of Skills Development Is Multicloud
Nearly 70% of respondents confirmed their organization is currently utilizing multiple cloud platforms. As cloud adoption continues and IT leaders attempt to build and execute this transition, the demand for cloud professionals is heightened across all three major cloud providers: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
AWS Still Leads The Pack
Interest In Azure Is Surging
Challenges with Cloud Learning Persist
While only 10% of respondents report low buy-in from leadership as a roadblock to cloud learning, challenges with executing on cloud learning programs remain. Notably, tech teams face a lack of skilled talent and struggle to find the time to uplevel skills.
That said, a supermajority (70%) of learning administrators identified online training and certification incentives as their most effective strategies for combating this problem and advancing learning throughout the organization.
For IT teams looking to uplevel cloud skills, ACG is offering 15% off its new Business Plus package through the end of September for teams of 25 or more. For more information, visit https://acloudguru.com or click here to download the full State of Cloud Learning report.
About A Cloud Guru
A Cloud Guru (ACG) is driven by a simple mission: to teach the world to cloud. We believe people learn best by doing. That’s why our in-house cloud experts go to ridiculous lengths to design fresh, engaging, and hands-on learning tools that empower both individuals and organizations to stay ahead of the technology curve. As the world’s most comprehensive, hands-on, and effective platform for cloud learning, ACG has enabled more than 2 million learners and 4,000 organizations to achieve a brighter future.
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