16 Nov 2008

November 16, 2008
By Maxwell Cooter, Techworld

APC Schneider Electric is set to open a ‘Power University’ next year to educate a new generation of engineers about the demands of working in data centres, and to tackle the increasingly high levels of power they consume.

Aaron Davis, chief marketing officer of APC Schneider Electric, said that the problem that the data centre industry was facing was that the skilled staff working in existing data centres were on average 10 years older than other IT staff and were coming up to retirement.

APC Schneider had tried to address the shortfall by launching Data Center University two years ago. This offered certified training to …

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