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The ideal situation is to be happy with your job and how you make a living. Let’s be honest, at some level, none of us like change. In the perfect world, we enjoy what we do for a living, we like the people we work with and the compensation, benefits and job security that come

The Shortage of Data Center Talent and Bridging the Gap

21 March No Comments

The first item to address is the shortage of talented candidates in this industry. The second is the lack of diversity. The third is the lack of direction on how candidates can get into the data center space. You can’t have diversity when there is a shortage of qualified talent. However, you can have diversity

Military Professionals in Data Center and Critical Facility Industries

Advice for Military Transitioning to the Civilian World

10 January No Comments

As Critical Facilities Recruiting Specialists, we have seen a steady trend of military professionals transitioning into the data center facilities market and making immediate and long-term impacts. The folks we have worked with out of the military include specialists such as Navy Nuclear Electricians, Navy Nuclear Machinist Mates, Air Force Power Production, and Army Power

Data Center Construction Projects at Pkaza Critical Facilities Recruiting

Data Center Construction Projects – Experienced Pros in High Demand

6 November No Comments

Data Center Construction Projects – Experienced Pros in High Demand Anyone with their pulse on the data center market knows not a week goes by without an announcement about some new data center building project. The titans of tech continue their hyper scale site buildouts all across the country. In addition, there are Data Center

Field Service Technician Jobs at Pkaza Critical Facilities Recruiting

Career Progression for a Field Service Technician in the Data Center Space

26 May No Comments

Career Progression for a Field Service Technician in the Data Center Space Field Service Technicians are vital component to the sustenance of Data Center Facilities. As rewarding as a career in field service can be, it can also open a lot of doors to other career opportunities in the data center space. As the Leading

Importance of Professional Networking

11 May No Comments

Importance of Professional Networking It’s a tight job market. But, the market is also in transition with many colo consolidations. Best way to network in these times are through Professional Organizations when they meet both locally (which is obviously cheaper to attend), or you can go to national events. I often find peers asking about

Equinix Adding A New Data Center Building at the Dallas Infomart
Equinix will invest $138 million to create a second data center building in the parking lot alongside the existing Dallas Infomart, expanding capacity at one of the industry's iconic carrier hotels.
Rich Miller
Power Deal: Legrand to Acquire Universal Electric
Legrand said Tuesday that it is acquiring Universal Electric Corporation, makers of the Starline busway products that provide overhead power connections for data center racks.
Rich Miller
What 5G Will Mean to The Data Center Industry
5G wireless is expected to increase the volume of mobile data. Here's a closer look at the timing of the 5G rollout and what all that data traffic will mean for data centers.
Rich Miller
Weighing the Benefits of Colocation: Build a Data Center or Go Colo?
As big data continues to explode, many more enterprises are having to make a decision: partner with a colocation provider or go it on their own, building and operating a new data center. A recent white paper from Server Technology weighs the benefits of colocation and lays out the pros and cons of both paths.
Sarah Rubenoff
Stream Data Centers Plans Massive Phoenix Campus
Stream Data Centers has acquired land for a major data center campus in Goodyear, Arizona, becoming the latest data center provider to expand in the red-hot Phoenix market.
Rich Miller
Greenpeace: Northern Virginia Data Centers Need A Cleaner Cloud
Greenpeace says Virginia utility Dominion Energy has not kept pace with the data center industry's appetite for renewable energy. The environmental group singled out Amazon Web Service for its rate of adoption of green power.
Rich Miller
Aligned Energy Aims to ‘Smarten’ Critical Infrastructure
A new white paper from Aligned Energy — whose mission is in part to is to make critical infrastructure smart enough to continuously improve both its economic performance and environmental impact — offers a financial analyst update on the company led by some of today's top wholesale cololcation providers.
Sarah Rubenoff
Top 2019 Trends Impacting the World’s Escalating Demand for Data and Power
Jim Witham, CEO of GaN Systems, explores the top 2019 data cent power trends, and highlights new perspectives and approaches to thinking about and addressing the power needs of the diverse technology that surrounds us.
Voices of the Industry
Google Unveils $13 Billion in New Data Center Construction for 2019
Google will build new data centers in Texas, Ohio, Nevada and Nebraska as part of a major expansion of its Internet infrastructure in 2019, the company said today.
Rich Miller
Vapor IO Forms Alliance to Move Faster on Edge Deployments
Edge computing specialist Vapor IO has organized the Kinetic Edge Alliance, a group of hardware, software and networking companies that will collaborate on edge solutions.
Rich Miller