Company data center has become the focus of the company. If you want in, here are the skills you need to have:
1. Virtualization.
A basic technology for the state of art-of-the-IT infrastructure, virtualization skills almost goes without saying.
Rick King, CTO at Thomson Reuters, the law, in Eagan, Minnesota, Put it this way: "Today the people who have spent much time with virtualization technology can pretty much work where they want - and that will be valid for a certain period , until nearly all data centers run almost everything in the virtual environment. "
2. Management services.
As the company's switch to cloud the use of public or private service provider, data center personnel need to ratchet up service management skills, said John Ryan, executive global portfolio is responsible for platforms and end-user services in technology consulting firm CSC.
"It's no longer enough to know how to manage the hypervisor and engaged in infrastructure workloads. People should turn their thoughts into an environment where capacity and demand management come together. They must be skilled in service management," he explains.
Joanne Kossuth, CIO and vice president of operations for the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in Needham, Mass., agrees. "Things like software and infrastructure as existing services, and adopted some higher than others. But five years into the future, it really will be about a combination of things and those data centers that will manage all .
3. Unified computing.
"Today the trend, as it will for the next three to five years, will unite computing - see the company's Cisco Unified Computing System, HP BladeSystem and IBM Matrix with a cloud computing strategy," said Rockwell Bonecutter, technology, data center and led the operation to North America at Accenture, a technology services consulting firm."Natural assumption you can get from it that this will be a hot button for new skills."
Thus, like any data center personnel have to get up to speed compute unified, principles and concepts of architecture, he said. As a result, we will have a data center run by people who understand how to provide business value and service rather than just knowing how to add processing power or storage, for example.
4. Green IT.
Going green is the mandate of companies around the world, and that leaves many IT organizations decide whether they need a point person for green efforts in the data center, King said. "This professional will focus on how to use green technology - as well as steering away from distributing non-tech green technology hijau.Karena often improve operational efficiency, such people will actually pay for themselves again and again," he added.
5. Resource management.
Along the same lines, the ability to finesse the conversation between IT and facilities become a critical skill in data centers, said David Cappuccio, managing vice president and head of research for Gartner's infrastructure team. "Building the capacity of the plan if you do not take into account energy consumption and heat dissipation is a program in a vacuum," he added. "You need a staff person who can really keep track of these things, speak the language facilities and translate it back into IT." These skills are sometimes packaged in a position called a resource manager or a liaison facility, Cappuccio said.
At Citigroup, they are wrapped into a position called critical data center planning and systems engineer, said Jim Carney, executive vice president of planning for data center services company based in New York global finance.
In fact, Carney says, "There is no data center manager I would never be able to hire blind to the side of the business because it is an integral facility uptime them."
6. Engineering.
At PricewaterhouseCoopers, "hottest skills and those most difficult to find the mechanical and electrical engineers who have a decent knowledge of technology and knowledge of current equipment and systems," said Rick Ancona, U.S. deputy CIO and CTO at PwC, a company professional services with U.S. headquarters in New York.
"If you build a data center even three or four years ago versus today, you are using a very different concept. Even with virtualization, it's really about power and cooling expenses. That is the complexity of the techniques that have denser servers introduced," he added.
7. Network.
Lights-out, remote data center worked only because the technology network, Citigroup Carney said. Which puts a premium on networking skills. "Data center managers need to be aware of the network - network configuration, hardware and vulnerability," he said."We need people who have skills are really good network or background tissue."
PwC, also, want people who have a network of skills such as building out data center strategy, Ancona said.
In particular, is looking for people on the monitor network operations center and space response, that "key positions that help ensure the availability of the overall environment and maximize uptime," said John Regan, director of data center services to PwC ..
8. Financial analysis.
As a hiring manager, Input's Gibbs says he considers one of the hottest financial analysis skills to a professional data center. "I need somebody who can determine the economics and technology applications based on business economics," he said.
In other words, if the application does not require super high availability, a professional data center should be able to crunch numbers to see if that could come out in the cloud or to live in special hardware in the data center, Gibbs said. "Quickly became a central data center business," he added. "So, if you do not understand the business, then you will not be working for a business center for a long time."
9. Project management.
In a similar vein, the need for strong project management and business analysis skills are taking, said Dave Willmer, executive director of Robert Half Technology, a company's IT staff TI.Dengan 2010 approved budget, the company began to invest in data center project, he said.
"I do not want to make it sound like a door blew off and this is the end to recession, but we see an increase in demand for business analysts and project managers to full-time positions as well as on a project basis," Willmer said.
10. Communication.
Good people skills can not be underestimated, says people in the data center. "When I think of a strong data center managers, communication and people management skills are way up there," said Jill Eckhaus, president Afcom, an association for data center professionals. "The world is changing the data center at a fast speed, and able to manage that means maintaining a structured environment. And that requires communication."
Good people skills are important, agree PwC's Regan. Even if professionals do not communicate the data center business, he said, there are a large number of communications needed in the IT organization.
With so many data centers to hone skills, it's time for opportunistic IT professionals, said Andreas Antonopoulos, senior vice president of Nemertes Research.
"So for those out of work, one thing to consider is taking a new direction and really focus on interesting things happening in IT," he said. "That's my message of hope."
Schultz is an editor and writer in Chicago IT. You can reach him at bschultz5824@gmail.com.
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