Summary Bullets:

• New vendor training programs make high-value digitization roles more accessible to IT workers.

• Red Hat, Cisco, and Google report progress in training and education.

The tech industry has undergone a sea change in how software and technology resources are created and consumed. Now enterprises are hard-pressed to fulfill new skillsets for implementing business transformations. This dearth in skilled workers poses a grave danger to the global economy by threatening to stall the implementation of important technological innovations which will advance corporate progress.