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Gartner survey reveals over half of CIOs plan to increase full-time IT employees in 2021
Fifty-five percent of CIOs plan to increase their total number of full-time employees ( FTEs ) in IT across the course of 2021 , according to a recent survey from Gartner .
They will predominantly focus staffing growth in the areas of automation , cloud and analytics platforms and support for remote work .
“ The critical role IT played across most firms ’ response to the pandemic appears to have had a positive impact on IT staffing plans ,” said Matthew Charlet , Research Vice President at Gartner . “ The initial pessimism around the 2021 talent situation that many CIOs expressed mid-2020 has since dwindled .” automation of business operations and increase in cloud adoption .
Overall , CIOs are much more likely to expand FTEs in newer , more-emerging technology domains . Growth in security personnel is necessary to reduce the risks from significant investments in remote work , analytics and cloud platforms . Data centre , network , systems administration and applications maintenance are the most likely areas to see staffing decreases due to the shift towards cloud services .
“ While CIOs plan to hire more staff in several areas critical to meeting changed consumer and employee expectations , most will not be able to meet their planned talent strategy goals without also upskilling or refocusing their existing teams ,” said Charlet .
Among the CIOs surveyed , the need to accelerate digital initiatives is , by a large margin , the primary factor driving IT talent strategies in 2021 . This is followed by the
Viasat opens Network Operations Centre and Cybersecurity Operations Centre in the UK
Viasat UK has announced the opening of its state-of-the-art Network Operations Centre ( NOC ) and Cybersecurity Operations Centre ( CSOC ) in Aldershot , UK . The facility will support defence , government and commercial organisations who rely on the guaranteed resilience of their networks and who are targeted by increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks from a growing number of adversaries . The
NOC and CSOC represent the beginning of a major investment in the UK prosperity and sovereignty agenda from Viasat , which includes targeting the creation of more than 75 new highly-skilled network , analysis and cybersecurity roles and more than £ 300 million in UK-focused investment to support the launch and service rollout of the impending ViaSat-3 constellation over Europe , Middle East and Africa .
Acting as a global customer care centre , the NOC and CSOC offer customers monitoring , detection and network support to help ensure the overall health of the network , identify potential issues or security threats , resolve those issues and threats in the shortest time possible and confirm that any threat resolution is successful .
“ We are entering an era of rapidly changing threat environments , where both the enemies that organisations face and their methods of attack , have taken on new and very dangerous forms ,” said Steve Beeching , Managing Director of Viasat UK .
“ Viasat ’ s secure mobility , assured satellite communications , network and behavioural analytics experience , along with our drive to bring the best people , technology and innovation to the forefront , make us perfectly suited to open , manage and grow an integrated NOC / CSOC .”
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