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Why diversity, inclusion, and education can unlock the data centre skills shortage

Marc Garner, VP, Secure Power Division, Schneider Electric UK & Ireland The data centre sector skills shortage has been documented by industry publications and research firms for almost a decade. In fact, a report published by Gartner in 2016 found 80% of firms expected to find their growth held back due to a lack of new data centre skills, with the McKinsey Global Institute predicting a global shortage of 1.5 million qualified data centre managers as early as 2015.

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D9 - London and Finland join Iceland and Newcastle

Thor Johnsen, Head of Triple Point's Digital 9 Infrastructure plc., discusses the organisation’s recent data centre acquisitions in London and Finland, as it seeks to develop a multi-site, multi-location strategy with sustainability as a central focus.

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NTT opens first Spanish data centre

The new facility in Madrid offers 6.3 MW of IT capacity and excellent connectivity to many carriers and cloud providers.

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Keysource helps with skills shortage

Keysource, the datacentre and critical environment specialist, has launched a new specialist service designed to help organisations that need are struggling to recruit candidates with the right experience. It has been designed to help address the current skills shortage across the datacentre, pharmaceutical and wider technology sectors, which is also making it challenging to retain people, often resulting in a lack of consistency and momentum for major transformation strategies, programmes and...

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Kao Data launches the Kao Academy

The Kao Academy was created to help engage children aged 7-11 (Key Stage 2, Years 3-6) about the growing importance and relevance of data centres to our everyday lives.

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Alibaba Cloud launches third data centre in Germany

Global cloud leader opens new sustainable data centre to meet growing demands for digital transformation.

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Schneider Electric partners with EcoDataCenter to build an ultra-low-carbon-footprint data centre...
New research from Digital Realty and Hewlett Packard Enterprise confirms a rise in the number of...
atNorth to host Crusoe Cloud GPUs as the appeal of the Nordic region gains traction.
Equinix plans to build a new International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centre in the Agecroft...
Teraco, a Digital Realty company and provider of interconnection platforms and vendor-neutral...
Acquisition of 10.8-hectare, 96MW development marks company’s third Berlin data center campus.
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Elektrobit Case Study: Enable Immense Data Intake to Support Autonomous Driving

Automated vehicles record and process massive amounts of data daily with simulations and high capacity sensors. For Elektrobit, a global supplier of connected software for the automotive industry, the biggest challenge was how to securely store, transfer and process these large amounts of data. The interconnection-first approach, deployed on Platform Equinix®, provided Elektrobit the fastest and most stable option available. Find out how Equinix, with its global data centers and digital edge presence, boosted efficiency, performance, reliability and security for Elektrobit.

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