Issue 18, October/November
FOCUS NEWS INDUSTRY
DATACENTERDYNAMICS RELEASES FIGURES ON DATA CENTER EMPLOYMENT
Data center staff in developed markets are older but paid less than their peers in comparable professions. While in developing markets, working in a data center is viewed as a more valued occupation, though staff are here are paid less than their counterparts in mature markets.
These are among the fi ndings published in the latest extract from the DCD Global Census.
The relationship between qualifi cation and experience is very much either/or — half of those who have worked for less than fi ve years have a post-grad qualifi cation or higher,
M&A
Internap will not become part of the wave of consolidation in
the Internet-infrastructure
space driven by growth of the Cloud computing market. The company’s CEO, Eric Cooney, said that it will continue pursuing its existing growth strategy. “I am not shopping the company and we listen to any offers that come in and respond accordingly.”
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) paid an undisclosed sum for NAS storage firm BlueArc, following a five-year OEM partnership.
BlueArc supplies
high-performance enterprise NAS solutions in health and life sciences, media and entertainment, telecommunications, energy and e-discovery. HDS sees BlueArc as adding to its portfolio for the management of unstructured data, where data sets are so large they become difficult to store, search, access, share and analyze.
LEGAL
The global IT consulting and outsourcing firm Accenture settled a lawsuit with the US Department of Justice, which accused the vendor of having received kickbacks for recommending certain vendors’ hardware and software to government agencies, inflating
Phone for you, ex- CEO Carol Bartz
Bartz, who was fired by the board of directors in September, stood down from the board. This was an unexpected move by Bartz, who had been vocal about her criticism of the board since she was fired by phone, but had said earlier she would not relinquish her position on the board. According to reports, Bartz was fired after the board lost confidence in her ability to turn Yahoo!’s fortunes around.
DEALS Power
Assure has made an
agreement with In-Q-Tel (IQT) that will help it target 17 member agencies of the US Intelligence
IPO
Asia-based data center and network provider
Pacnet,
compared with 10% of those who have worked more than 10 years.
Of those sampled, 45% working in FM/M&E streams hold a technical rather than academic qualifi cation. They also tend to have worked in the sector longer than their counterparts in the IT and networking streams — there is some correlation with new IT staff and the deployment of IT architectural systems. IT staff are far more likely to have a post-grad qualifi cation or higher.
Figures show that 300,000 people work in and around the data centers owned and operated by over 5,000 people surveyed. A slight majority —
prices and rigging contract bids. Accenture agreed to pay about US$63.7m to the government and continued to deny the allegations.
APPOINTMENTS/MOVES Yahoo!’s former CEO, Carol
55% — work in IT services and management. The remaining 45% on the FM/M&E side.
Across all markets, 45% have worked in the sector for more than 10 years, 27% between fi ve and 10 years, and 28% for less than fi ve years. Again, across all markets, 25% have a post-grad degree or doctorate, 35% a graduate degree, 25% a technical qualifi cation and 15% have no tertiary qualifi cation.
On average, the sample earn $71,000 per year.
See more Census coverage on pages 35 and 78
Community. The members include Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigations, Department of Homeland Security and others. Power Assure president and CEO Brad Wurtz said he expected the deal to expand federal business for the Data Center Infrastructure Management vendor.
nlyte and OSIsoft signed a strategic partnership to take data from OSIsoft’s PI System to populate the nlyte performance management database.
The
combined solution takes data from OSIsoft’s PI System real- time
infrastructure and directly populates the nlyte performance management database (PMDB) to facilitate “precision DCIM”.
MARKET The North American market for data center automation solutions is expected to grow by 21% between 2010 and 2014, according to a recent report by market analysts Technavio. The report’s authors say key drivers for growth in the market — dominated by vendors including HP, BMC, IBM and CA — is a need to reduce network infrastructure and maintenance costs.
which has a number of subsea cables and landing stations in the US and throughout the region, is considering boosting its assets to prime it for a listing on Nasdaq in the coming two years. At a press conference in Singapore, Pacnet’s CEO, Bill Barney, said the company had between US$100m and US$500m to spend on acquisitions, Bloomberg reported.
US-based data center wholesaler Digital Realty Trust released 10 million shares at US$25 each in an effort to raise US$250m to repay borrowings and expand its coffers for further purchases and data center redevelopment. The Series E Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock was offered publicly on the New York Stock Exchange 15, 2011.
until September
COMPANY Dell plans to double employee headcount at recently acquired Force10 Networks’
research
and development center in Chennai, India,
according to
Suresh Vaswani, the new VP for services at Dell and chairman of the company’s India. It could also end up manufacturing some of
its networking equipment
out of the city as a result of the US$200m acquisition.
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