Gary Middleton, Group VP: GTM and Skills Transformation
Bridging the digital transformation skills gap
- Today’s programmable networks automate many of the routine network management tasks that engineers performed manually in the past. At the same time they introduce new functions and controls network managers have never had to deal with before.
- An important part of any transformation process is for the consultant and client to sit down early to determine exactly what resources and skills are needed for a transformation, and how to fill those gaps.
“Large organisations have ongoing training programmes to maintain their in-house skill sets. However, it’s costly and time consuming to do this at scale.”
Performing network design and operations in modern software-defined infrastructure requires skills that traditional network engineers often don’t have. Today’s programmable networks automate many of the routine network management tasks that engineers once performed manually. At the same time they introduce new functions and controls network managers have never had to deal with before.
This is an excerpt from Is your network geared for the digital world. The eBook was generously sponsored by Dimension Data.
