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CLOUD COMPUTING SKILLS: BUILDING INDIA’S DIGITAL DNA
CLOUD COMPUTING SKILLS: BUILDING INDIA’S DIGITAL DNA

July 26, 2021

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2020 and 2021 have given enterprises globally enough reason and impetus to accelerate their transformation journey and hence, invest in cloud computing. As competition intensifies and traditional players & business models are being disrupted by more nimble & specialist firms, enterprises’ dependence on Technology-as-a-Differentiator is increasing and is enabling firms to innovate and increase customer stickiness.

Cloud Computing: The Driving Factors

Even within the technology industry, as lines between services and other tech value pools blur, competitive intensity is increasing due to the emergence of four categories of competitors:

  • Hyperscalers in the cloud business - AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud
  • Next-gen SaaS players disrupting ADM value pools
  • Specialists attacking digital and cloud services revenue pool
  • Large infrastructure players migrating to service-led offerings 

A recent McKinsey report estimates that the global economic value from cloud computing would be about $1 trillion. As per NASSCOM’s FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY SERVICES-WINNING IN THIS DECADE report, by 2030, cloud (IaaS, SaaS, PaaS) usage would cross $500 billion and cloud services are likely to amount to over $300 billion.

This presents a very unique opportunity for India’s technology industry to capture a significant share of this market. And critical to making this a reality would be the people resources – a talent pool with the required skills across the entire cloud stack.

Recognising this opportunity and realizing the critical need to build an army of relevant cloud computing skill base in India on a war footing, @NasscomR is working on analyzing India’s current cloud skills landscape and also provide a blueprint on where it can reach by 2025.

We will attempt to answer some key questions:

  • How can stakeholders create an ecosystem training approach to build experience & expertise at scale and within accelerated timelines – bridging the skills vs. experience gap?
  • How do we enable industry-academia collaboration, introduce compensatory courses and reskill career professionals in these courses?
  • While India has sufficient expertise in application development on cloud, how can we accelerate the growth of cloud infrastructure skills?
  • There exists sufficient e-content on cloud computing; however, this is no substitute to either hands-on experience nor does this help with trainings customized for specific project requirements. How do we address this issue?
  • Re-skilling, upskilling, cross-skilling adjacent talent pool to develop cloud-related skills requires a mindset shift away from software development. How do we build this process of unlearn to re-learn?

We will highlight the demand levers – growing cloud adoption across verticals including the government, technology advances, cloud use cases – and present a cloud maturity assessment model.

From the perspective of cloud skills, we will trace the evolution of cloud skills and as automation increases, the evolution of traditional infrastructure roles into cloud specific roles. We will also identify skills critical to an enterprise’s cloud stack, complex cloud skills and identify the adjacent tech talent that can be re-skilled.

We will then cover an in-depth demand-supply analysis – as of FY2021, India has a pool of 600K+ cloud literate talent - and map select job families to levels of experience. As part of this report, we will also present to the ecosystem an FY2025 target that the industry can aim for that could propel India as the world’s second largest cloud talent hub. 

India has the potential to become a global cloud leader if it gets certain things right. We will also suggest a roadmap for all stakeholders to collaboratively implement that will progress India towards being a Cloud-First Nation:

  • Ensure a regular & proactive channel of communication with India’s academia ecosystem – online & offline learning institutions – to ensure that the curricula is in line with the evolving cloud computing landscape
  • Ensure a robust re-skilling, upskilling & cross-skilling ecosystem within the tech industry to stay abreast of or even keep a few steps ahead of technology advances & also build a continuous learning culture
  • Build a critical mass of mid-level expertise in select cloud computing areas: Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering Operations, Cloud Security Experts (SecOps), Cloud Economy (cloud optimization- Financial Operations or FinOps), Edge Cloud, Cloud Architecture, etc.
  • Create in-house CoEs, virtual labs; accelerate on-the-job training and internship programs to build experience in cloud

We will be releasing the report during our upcoming Cloud Summit 2021 (Aug 24-25, 2021).

We would like to hear about your cloud programs and cloud skilling programs. Do write to me at: diksha@nasscom.in.

References:

•             Future of Technology Services Winning in this Decade (Feb 2021)

•             Cloud’s trillion-dollar prize is up for grabs (Feb 2021)

•             FutureSkills Talent in India: Demand-Supply Analysis (Oct 2020)

•             Wipro to Invest $1 Billion to Expand Cloud Transformation Capability, Launches Wipro FullStride Cloud Services

•             www.infosys.com/services/cloud-cobalt/insights/documents/enterprises-accelerate-cloud-journey.pdf  

•             TCS splits cloud biz into 5 strategic units

•             HCL launches SoFy, the cloud native solution factory and HCL Now, a Cloud-Native-as-a-Service offering


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Diksha Nerurkar
Practice Lead - Strategy Group (Cloud, Future of Work)

I lead nasscom's Cloud Advocacy Program and the Future of Work initiative

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