IT Personnel
HUMAN RESOURCES
Owen Ashby of Cognisco highlights the integral role data centres now have and how this will grow, the
need for experienced people with great technical skills to manage and work in data centres, and what
companies need to do to attract the right people to the industry – and the risks they face if they don’t.
T
he seemingly
unstop pable
acceleration in demand
for global data has
propelled the data
centre industry into one of the most
important and fastest growing areas
of the economy. Frost and Sullivan
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predicts a 16 per cent growth in
the European data centre market
by 2018 as a result of the growth
in enterprise cloud computing,
content-heavy applications and
the machine-to-machine (M2M)
connectivity needed for the Internet
of Things (IoT).
Although this projected growth is
very positive, there are major challenges.
Whilst data centres are the engine
rooms of many global businesses
today, their effectiveness depends
on the availability of experienced,
certified and competent network and
data centre managers and engineers.