{"id":33954,"date":"2022-05-30T10:18:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T07:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saudishopper.com.sa\/en\/?p=33954"},"modified":"2026-03-28T00:58:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T21:58:19","slug":"security-concerns-and-talent-shortages-risk-stalling-innovation-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saudishopper.com.sa\/en\/security-concerns-and-talent-shortages-risk-stalling-innovation-in-the-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Security concerns and talent shortages risk stalling innovation in the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>New research from Rackspace Technology delves into the state of Middle East businesses\u2019 challenges when it comes to adopting new cloud technologies<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Middle East, UAE, 30 May 2022 \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>New research from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rackspace.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rackspace Technology<\/a>\u00a0has revealed that despite many companies accelerating their digital transformation programmes, just 36% of technology leaders report a willingness to take on risk.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rackspace.com\/lp\/multicloud-annual-research-report-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Multicloud Annual Research Report 2022<\/a>\u00a0cloud technology remains a key component of many IT strategies to improve customer experience and ease of use (52%), as well as the agility to scale up and down based on demand (36%). Many organisations are now also looking towards serverless to seize on the advantages that the early adopters (20% of respondents) are experiencing, like the ability to\u00a0automate workflows (55%), scale IoT applications (25%), and deploy virtual assistants (25%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, concerns around security and IT talent have brought a dark cloud over the pursuit of such digital transformation and resulted in a low appetite for risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nearly half of respondents (42%) stated that security and data privacy concerns present the top barrier to preventing their organisation from achieving peak cloud benefit and innovation in the space. 20% of respondents are either running applications on serverless or planning to in the next three years and&nbsp;<a>57% cited security specifically as a barrier to adoption.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second most commonly reported challenge is the talent shortage, which is in turn exacerbating leaders\u2019 security challenges. In fact, the talent shortage is inhibiting organisations\u2019 adoption of new development methods in their DevOps (73%) and presents a barrier to serverless adoption (48%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Overcoming security and talent concerns<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whether it\u2019s moving to a multicloud environment, application of business processes, or the adoption of new technologies like serverless computing and the edge, digital innovation is at the core of many organisations\u2019 business strategies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Understanding the need to balance the risk presented by security and talent concerns and the pursuit of innovation, nearly half of technology leaders are now working with external strategic partners for support with security (46%),&nbsp;<a>managed services&nbsp;<\/a><a>(45%), IT strategy (50%) and training (25%).<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Businesses are also bolstering their efforts to attract new IT talent by promoting training and development opportunities (47%), increasing salaries (34%) and promoting opportunities for hybrid and remote working (31%). And the same incentives are being offered to current employees to help curb staff turnover (31%, 32% and 38% respectively).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>George Pawlyszyn, General Manager, Middle East and Africa, Rackspace Technology, comments<\/strong>: \u201cThecurrent security landscape has put a dark cloud over many organisations\u2019 technology ambitions, with IT leaders facing immense pressure between the pursuit of innovation and taking on greater risk through the adoption of new technologies. This has been further aggravated by the talent shortage that continues to plague the IT and security sectors.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTo ensure that businesses don\u2019t have to stall their digital transformation projects, or take on undue risk in pursuing them due to a lack of skills, IT leaders should look for partners that can bring greater expertise and resources to help them continue to innovate safely.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research from Rackspace Technology delves into the state of Middle East businesses\u2019 challenges when it comes to adopting new cloud technologies Middle East, UAE, 30 May 2022 \u2013\u00a0New research from\u00a0Rackspace Technology\u00a0has revealed that despite many companies accelerating their digital transformation programmes, just 36% of technology leaders report a willingness to take on risk.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":33955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"1","_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_pr_autopilot_social_copy":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph_description":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph_image":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph_image_id":0,"_yoast_wpseo_twitter_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter_description":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter_image":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter_image_id":0,"_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":439,"_extra_hide_author_box":"","_extra_featured_post":"","_partner_post_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[439],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Middle East cloud - Risk and talent shortages | Saudi Shopper<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Middle East cloud adoption faces security concerns and talent shortages, risking innovation. 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