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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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Almost 50 cloud regions to be launched over next two years

New research details cloud connectivity offerings and international WAN services of more than 200 service providers.

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Panduit launches FlexCore™ Optical Distribution Frame

Shallow-depth front-access cabling solution offers the ultimate in flexibility, manageability, scalability, and security.

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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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Swindon data centre goes fully carbon neutral in major sustainability push.
HCL Technologies has issued findings on digital technology investment and deployment by enterprises...
Launch of global carrier network enables multi-services with simplicity, anywhere in the world.
New York's largest Internet Exchange to receive 400GE backbone upgrade and 800GE support as network...
tmWare chooses Birmingham data centre for hosting Disaster Recovery.
Leading uninterruptible power supply manufacturer Riello UPS is helping a hospice hit new heights...
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Equinix Insider - White Ops President & COO, Eddie Schwartz

Eddie has over 25 years experience in information security, including recent work as the CISO of RSA, the Security Division of EMC, and Co-Founder/CSO of NetWitness.

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