apprenticeships
YOUTH APPEAL
Russell Poole and Tom Davy of Equinix discuss the importance of apprenticeships in the data centre industry.
Russell Poole
Equinix UK Managing Director
The technology industry continues
to expand at a rapid pace and in
order to support that data centres
need to be one step ahead, providing
the infrastructure required by the
technology. Aside from planning for
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the physical building of data centres,
we need to ensure that we have
sufficient numbers of trained staff for
this unique vocation.
In 2011, Equinix identified that
although there is a formal training
programme leading to a recognised
data centre technician qualification
(Certified Data Centre Technician
Professional – CDCTP), there
is no equivalent in the education
curriculum, so young students do
not get an opportunity to study this
at school or college. In order to
attract more talent to the industry, we
devised our own training programme