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93% 42%

82% 18%

of IT managers believe in-house skills are critical to designing and architecting virtual environments.

of IT managers consider it critical to have in-house cloud architecture and design skills.

By 2013, nearly 2/3 of all information storage capacity will exist in virtual and cloud environments.

Half of all IT managers polled expect cloud computing will have a moderate to high impact on their teams’ skill requirements.

of the same managers believe their teams have the necessary virtualization skills in-house.

of the same managers believe they have the necessary cloud skills in-house.

WANTS HAS

50%

2013

EMC - Managing Information Storage: Trends, Challenges, and Options, 2011-2012

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By 2018, analysts also anticipate a wide gap between the supply of and demand for data-savvy managers and professionals.

According to McKinsey, by 2018, supply will only meet 50%-60% of actual demand.

190,000

1.5M

Source: McKinsey Global Institute: Big Data – The next frontier for innovation, competition and productivity. May, 2011

Number of Big Data-savvy managers needed by 2018

HELPWANTED

74% of organizations use some form of analytics

only 34% perform Big Data analysis

46% indicate the barrier to adopting Big Data analytics is skills and staffing

• Big Data analytics• Big opportunity • Big skills shortage

Source: TDWI report: Big Data Analytics, by Phillip Russum, Sept., 2011

Number of skilled data-analysis professionals needed by 2018

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2018

Big Data: so much opportunity, so few skilled analysts

74%

34%

The EMC Education Effect

32% 35% 28% 37%

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Source: EMC 60/120 day post-training survey

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