Do you really know what you think you know?
Without large amounts a peer data, it's difficult to know where you stand.
Infrastructure automation is complex! It’s also essential in moving the ball forward. CIO’s are getting double the number of resources to do twice the work. Therefore, teams must automate the things they can automate. It allows for the agility needed to implement net new technologies.
From my perspective, the challenge is massive. I talked to a consulting company approached by a Fortune 500 for a Google Compute migration. The F500 determined they needed 300-different resources for the migration. The consulting company had to decline the opportunity as there’s not enough talent on the market.
I’ve heard these stories repeatedly—the need to create infrastructure as code practice but not enough resources on the market to do so. But then we listen to stories of Capital One, who exited their private data centers for the public cloud. We begin to wonder if we are doing something wrong. Does Capital One know something we don’t know? Do they have a superpower we don’t possess?
It’s challenging to know where you stand without data and talking to your peers. So how have you kept current with the challenges in your industry vs. your maturity?