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Kirk Offel: Life Is Too Short. Find A Job You Love

By Rich Miller - February 3, 2022

“Life is too short” to be working all day in a job you don’t like., says Kirk Offel, the CEO of Overwatch Mission Critical. We spoke with Kirk on the DCF Show in the midst of major shifts in the U.S. job market, with millions of workers reassessing their careers.

Tagged With: Data Center Careers

Helping Veterans Find Purpose Through Data Center Careers

By Rich Miller - January 5, 2022

For CEO Kirk Offel, the bottom line for Overwatch Mission Critical is “changing lives and saving people by finding them a sense of purpose.” On the DCF Show, Kirk shares about Overwatch and its mission to train military veterans for careers in the data center industry.

Tagged With: Data Center Careers, Data Center Jobs, Overwatch

Roundtable: Meeting The Data Center Staffing Challenge

By Rich Miller - June 22, 2021

Projections for the data center industry's future staffing needs, from The Uptime Institute. (Image: Uptime Institute)

Recruiting staff to keep pace with the growth of the data center industry will be a major challenge in coming years. The seven experts on our DCF Data Center Executive Roundtable weigh in on the strategies and solutions that can meet this challenge.

Tagged With: Aligned, Data Aire, Data Center Careers, Data Center Jobs, Infrastructure Masons, Iron Mountain, Nortek, Stream Data Centers, Vertiv

With New Funding, Salute Tackles the Data Center Staffing Challenge

By Rich Miller - March 2, 2021

Salute Inc. co-founder and Chairman Lee Kirby speaks at a recent data center industry conference. (Photo: RIch Miller)

Private equity firm LLR Partners has made a strategic investment in Salute Mission Critical, highlighting the growth opportunity in data center staffing. Salute recruits and trains military veterans to work in the data center industry.

Tagged With: Data Center Careers, Data Center Jobs, Salute Inc.

Data Center Job Openings Available Across Major Markets

By Sarah Rubenoff - September 2, 2020

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Amid the lingering COVID-19 pandemic crisis, the data center industry continues to boom. This month we are highlighting new data jobs in Northern Virginia, Salt Lake City, Denver and more.

Tagged With: Data Center Careers, Data Center Jobs, Pkaza Critical Facilities Recruiting

Data Center Jobs: New Openings in Ashburn, Montreal Cloud Hubs

By Sarah Rubenoff - August 4, 2020

New construction continues in Ashburn, such as this CloudHQ data center project. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Despite the national employment crisis, the data center industry continues to hire, with many new openings for managers and skilled staff in Northern Virginia, Montreal, Seattle and Silicon Valley.

Tagged With: Ashburn, Data Center Careers, Data Center Jobs, Pkaza Critical Facilities Recruiting

Aging Workforce Poses A Challenge for the Data Center Industry

By Rich Miller - December 19, 2019

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In today’s discussion, our panel of six data center executives discuss the staffing and workforce development challenges facing the data center industry.

Tagged With: Chatsworth Products, Data Center Careers, Digital Realty, EdgeConneX, RagingWire Data Centers, Sabey Data Centers, Staffing, Vertiv

Women of Mission Critical: Diversity Key to Data Center Industry’s Future

By Rich Miller - September 30, 2019

Participating in a panel at the Women of Mission Critical conference were (from left) : Catherine Bedell of Vapor IO, Google's Heather Dooley, Nancy Novak of Compass Datacenters, Krystyna Witt of Evoque Data Centers, and Jenny Zhan from EdgeConneX. (Photo: Rich Miller)

At the CAPRE Women of Mission Critical Conference, women in data center leadership offered insights about the value of diversity, and the need to create more opportunities for women in the sector.

Tagged With: Data Center Careers, Diversity

Data Center Day: Inspiring the Next Generation of Industry Leaders

By Rich Miller - September 24, 2019

The first International Data Center Day will be October 29 as an effort to raise awareness of the data center industry and to inspire the next generation of talent.

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How Digital Natives and Automation Are Reshaping the Workforce

By Rich Miller - April 9, 2019

Dr. Julie Albright during her keynote presentation at the Data Center World 2019 conference in Phoenix. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Digital transformation is changing the world of work, according to digital sociologist Dr. Julie Albright, who says digital natives and automation are reshaping many workforce practices. Plenty more change lies ahead.

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Mitigate Risk, Improve Performance and Decrease Operating Expenses through Data Center Self-Performance

Mitigate Risk, Improve Performance and Decrease Operating Expenses through Data Center Self-Performance If a vendor conducts the actual work in your data center, then you or your operator aren’t maximizing your current operating resources and are experiencing incremental cost and risk. Chad Giddings of BCS Data Center Operations, explains the importance of your data center provider having a high-degree of self-performance.

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Phoenix Data Center Market

2021 Overview of the Phoenix Data Center Market

Phoenix has established itself as a major market for cloud computing, and nearly every major hyperscale platform and wholesale data center developer has lined up land for future capacity in Greater Phoenix. The region is positioned for continued data center expansion, and the pace and location of that growth will be guided by deployment trends for large customers, especially regarding how they position their capacity and availability zones. This report, in conjunction with NTT, continues Data Center Frontier’s market coverage of growing data center hubs. Explore further for a comprehensive overview of the Phoenix data center market.

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DCF Spotlight

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Edge Computing is Poised to Remake the Data Center Landscape

Data center leaders are investing in edge computing and edge solutions and actively looking at new ways to deploy edge capacity to support evolving business and user requirements.

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Northern Virginia Data Center Market: The Focal Point for Cloud Growth

The Northern Virginia data center market is seeing a surge in supply and an even bigger surge in demand. Data Center Frontier explores trends, stats and future expectations for the No. 1 data center market in the country.

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Data Center 101: Mastering the Basics of the Data Center Industry

Data Center 101: Mastering the Basics of the Data Center Industry

Data Center Frontier, in partnership with Open Spectrum, brings our readers a series that provides an introductory guidebook to the ins and outs of the data center and colocation industry. Think power systems, cooling, solutions, data center contracts and more. The Data Center 101 Special Report series is directed to those new to the industry, or those of our readers who need to brush up on the basics.

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