Honing Your Skills for the Cloud

Grant Thompson has good news and bad news about making the move into cloud computing. The good news is that a lot of IT firms already have many of the abilities they’ll need to prosper. “There’s a lot of crossover in terms of skill sets,” says Thompson, a founding partner and solutions architect at MG Technology Group LLC, of Bainbridge Island, Wash., which provides hosting and software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions alongside more traditional consulting and integration offerings. The bad...