In our last post we talked a little bit about the troubles that companies are facing with their over use of the cloud to host their workloads. But the truth is that today’s businesses are stuck between a rock and a hard spot as they consider moving back on-premise. One thing that the cloud frenzy has created is a massive skill gap in younger IT professionals.
25 years ago the move from proprietary solutions like IBM and Sun was to Open Source solutions and the cost dynamics were that you could lower your perpetual license costs by hiring more expensive talent that could build Open Source solutions (our team at Stealth Automation Startup know a little about this). Over time these solutions became more complex and the costs of perpetual solutions were forgotten and companies looked to the cloud to further reduce both the cost and hide complexity of their infrastructure.
Now after over a decade of reliance on the Cloud Providers we find that the norm for IT professionals is not how do you stand up a Postgress DB but rather how do you connect AWS service, letting AWS deal with that infrastructure. And instead of paying talented IT service professionals we just pay Cloud Providers a premium to obfuscate the complexity of the infrastructure we use.
As businesses look to move workloads on premise they have a difficult challenge of finding professionals with the now rare skill set to build infrastructure or pay the high price for antiquated infrastructure tools that require specialized skills and training and take months or years to roll out.
The need facing the industry today is that the skill gap created by the cloud frenzy is never going to be fixed and the enterprise software providers are not incentivized to update their IT management systems to be more cost effective or efficient. And that is where we see the opportunity for disruption in the industry.
The leaders in the space are not incentivized to build modern solutions, they are incentivized to lock in their current customer base. They are focused on outlandish egress costs, raising rents, and creating stickiness but they are failing to create value for daily users.
Stealth Automation Startup will provide a modern infrastructure solutions that allows you to say goodbye to your Cloud Provider bill, never have to deal with the constant churn of Cloud Provider APIs, ensure that your IT teams don’t have to play games with recipes/manifests/SLS files or whatever growing GitHub repo you are managing today. But make it easy to stand up your infrastructure in a secure manner, ensure on-going compliance, and provide easy access to developers without requiring them to shift anywhere.