Cloud use as a solution to the shortage of skilled workers in the German IT sector?

The shortage of skilled workers, especially in the IT sector, has worsened. While it eased somewhat during the coronavirus crisis in 2020 and 2021, the number of skilled workers shortages in the IT sector rose in the following year 2022, according to the Bitkom press release from November 16, 2022 to 137,000 in Germany. That is around 10 % more than in 2019.

However, the figures vary depending on the study (e.g. approx. 68,000 vacancies according to the latest report by the Institute of the German Economy (IW) from 8 June 2023), but the tenor is always the same: there is a shortage of skilled workers in IT and companies believe that the situation will tend to worsen over the next few years.

As a result, companies, especially in IT, which is important for business operations, have to manage more and more tasks with fewer staff. At the same time, the demands on the know-how of this staff are increasing, as are the requirements for the company's certifications. In this situation, the cloud offers an efficient solution.

Various advantages of the cloud help companies to reduce the impact of skills shortages:

Time savings through IaaS

Most IT systems are operated in large data centers that consume enormous amounts of energy. A sustainable approach requires the use of renewable energy sources, energy-efficient hardware and advanced cooling technologies to minimize energy consumption. Companies should therefore select data centers according to these criteria.

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offers the greatest time savings here. By using IaaS, recurring tasks such as patching, monitoring and optimization can be outsourced to specialist service providers. This allows IT staff in the company to concentrate on value-adding activities.

Efficient use of know-how

The aforementioned problem of the shortage of skilled workers means that fewer and fewer staff have to take care of more and more tasks. But this does not necessarily have to be the case. With the help of cloud technologies, standard tasks can be taken over by specialized external service providers, while the existing specialists focus on their core competencies.

Data protection and compliance

All companies should make data protection a central concern. In order to offer the best possible protection here, IT-HAUS relies on its partner IONOS, which offers a GDPR-compliant cloud solution with its IONOS Cloud of the same name. This ensures data protection and compliance without compromising on efficiency.

These are just a few of the benefits of moving to the cloud. IT-HAUS and its cloud experts can provide you, the customer, with the best possible advice and, thanks to the large number of projects it has completed, has the necessary experience to offer you added value. For example, a medium-sized company from the greater Trier-Luxembourg area benefited from the project support provided by IT-HAUS and a service level agreement to save labor capacity while at the same time monitoring their cloud capacities (Read the reference here).

All in all, cloud technology enables an efficient, flexible and data protection-compliant way of working, which is indispensable, especially in times of a shortage of skilled workers. Companies that take this path secure a decisive competitive advantage and lay the foundation for a future-oriented way of working. Regardless of whether you are planning a migration from the data center to the cloud, a cloud-to-cloud migration or simply the relocation of certain workloads - with IT-HAUS you have a reliable and experienced partner at your side. We would be happy to talk to you personally about your requirements.