Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 01 | Page 28

DCA Growth is great, but people don’t work forever In this regular monthly input from our partners, the Data Center Alliance (DCA), Steve Hone, CEO, DCA, discusses training and fine-tuning skill-sets for future planning. 28 INTELLIGENTCIO The Middle East Region is the world’s fastest growing market for new data centre builds. Therefore the importance of capturing knowledge and feeding this into the next generation of data centre builders and operators is absolutely essential in order to maintain future sustainability, prosperity and growth. This is certainly the view of DCA Members in Europe who recently discussed the DCA strategy for training and skills for 2015/16. The core of the strategy is involving Academia to work with our industry to help build a greater pool of employable human resources to support the growth. www.intelligentcio.com