The IT Talent Shortage Continues to Impact the Cloud Sector

Cloudways’ Robert Jacobi: “Cloudways is headquartered out of Pakistan and they get people out of the university there … so there’s not a lot of concern around talent [there] but expanding into Europe and North America is trickier.”

Vultr’s Shane Zide: “There aren’t a lot of good cloud MSPs outside of both coasts.”

Rackspace’s Renee Taylor: “Don’t go to the biggest markets. Go to the tiers where you think the next generation is living.”

Pax8’s Amanda Lee: “We started the Rural Empowerment Program a couple years ago in smaller communities so people can work from wherever they want. … We’re letting them stay where they want to be.”

Linode’s Blair Lyon: “The last two years, companies have realized the gains of being remote. Now it’s about how to scale, and that’s going to be a hard thing, hiring people remotely.”