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Emerald isle welcomes the DCA and PEDCA project
Simon Campbell-Whyte, Data Centre Alliance Executive Director reports on PEDCA in Ireland and some of the other projects DCA members can get involved in.
WITH IRELAND being home to three of Europe’s largest data centres, it’s no surprise the second Data Centre Ireland Conference held in Dublin was even bigger and better than last year’s inaugural event with over 50 sponsoring companies and over 750 delegates through the doors over the two days.
Having played a part last year, the DCA was present again this year along with The PEDCA project and many of its European participants visiting the conference for the first time. The DCA sponsored the evening drinks and networking evening with lots of interest and discussion about the benefits of an Ireland based DCA chapter. This will certainly be more of a focus of the DCA going forward; already with over 200 organisations supporting the non-profit organisation, the DCA is establishing many members across many countries, in fact around half the current members are non-UK, so as soon as there is a sustainable number in any one country the establishment of an appropriate non-commercial entity can take place, so that national as well as international matters can be properly organised and represented.
The PEDCA project featured in the programme with Simon Campbell- Whyte, Executive Director of the DCA, giving a presentation describing the project’s aims and objectives. Following this Mark Acton, Norland’s Product Director and Chair of the EU Code of Conduct Technical Committee, chaired a panel session where topics and questions on the project were discussed with a PEDCA panel comprising of Drs. Frank Verhagen of Cerios Green, Maikel Bouricius of Green IT Amsterdam Region, Dr Jon Summers of University of Leeds and Simon Campbell-Whyte of DCA.
The two day exhibition featured two full conference programmes with a wide spectrum of talks covering many aspects of the data centre industry. Simon Campbell-Whyte of the DCA chaired one of the morning sessions featuring Steve Strange of Anixter reporting on the redefinition of the data centre they see, Prof Ian Bitterlin’s Green Grid talk on ISO standards, HP’s talk on data centre energy efficiency and Ray Lloyd of IBM who shared his very interesting research on improving efficiency in legacy data centres.
The conference organisers worked hard to ensure the event ran smoothly so a big thanks to Hugh and his team for what was a great event which promises to be even bigger next year.
DCA “Boot-Camped” Graduates – if you are hiring – here’s a fantastic resource!
As you may have heard, the DCA in conjunction with University of East London and CNet held a 2 week Data Centre Boot Camp which provided 21 out of work graduates with training worth a market value of over £3,500 each. Candidates were from a mix of backgrounds and ages from degree to phD levels but were all selected with one over-riding factor; keenness and willingness to work in the data centre sector.
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You now have an opportunity to interview these candidates - They learnt: £ What is the data centre industry and its role in life and business £ The history of the data centre industry £ What data centres do and the services they provide £ The critical parts of the data centre £ Industry Standards and metrics £ 3-day CNet Training (eqiv. to data centre technicians course) £ Role of Cloud computing £ The future of the data centre £ They all carried out Site visits at two data centres £ In addition they all received “Strengthfinders 2.0” assessments and reports.
They are all registered on the Data Centre Alliance site and can be contacted via this URL
www.data-central.org/group/bootcampers For further information please contact
kellye@datacentrealliance.org or
stephend@datacentrealliance.org
Join the DCA Energy Efficiency Steering Group If data centre energy efficiency is important to your organisation joining the DCA Steering Group, will not only help you keep you abreast of what is going on with ISO standards, industry guidelines and current thinking, but also critically, provide the ability to add your voice and experience to the work. The data centre industry needs to ensure it is organised to respond effectively to the pressures and concerns of energy - so please join the group via Data Central here
www.data-central.org/group/energy efficiency
PEDCA survey – Your industry needs YOU!
The PEDCA Survey is a great opportunity to put forward your views to help shape the future of the industry. Completely non-commercial, the public funded survey is designed to assist the industry in defining the training, skills and research needs of the industry for our common benefit. The survey results will be shared with all who participate - you will even be able to view the results as the survey progresses.
The Survey is split into three parts, not every part will be relevant to everyone - here’s who they are aimed at: £ Skills training and education - this is aimed at the industry›s employers, if you employ data centre staff we need to hear from you.
£ Technology Road-mapping - this is for data centre enthusiasts, experts, engineers, consultants, designers - thinking caps needed!
£ The Service Provider End User Survey - this is for the data centre industry›s service provider users, stakeholders and customers. If you use Cloud, Hosting or Colocation services we need your input on what data centres do, what›s good, bad and what can be improved..
It is crucial for the project and the industry that the survey gets wide input and participation so please invite your friends, customers and colleagues to take part. Just go to
www.data-central.org, click on Pedca, Pedca Survey. Many Thanks for your Support.
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