Automation won’t resolve the data center staffing crisis…at least not yet These are challenging times for managing data centers that are also opening up opportunities for IT professionals. The lines between development and operations keep blurring. The latest report on data center staffing from Uptime Institute finds skills shortages continue and AI is not expected to reduce requirements in the near future. As demand for digital capabilities grows, a shortage… Read More
Data Center Staffing
Can AI solve the data center labor shortage?
As data centers get smarter, the workforces running them are struggling to keep up. While the industrywide ideal is for so-called dark data centers — meaning, centers without any on-site staff — this brave new reality, for the moment, is still aspirational and years away. In fact, industry leaders say the flood of information coming from smart equipment and sensors needed for artificial intelligence and automation created a widespread need for employees capable of actually… Read More
Support Your Data Center with Silverback Remote Hands
Silverback Remote Hands minimizes your team’s data center visits during the COVID19 crisis. Use Silverback as your remote hands, minimizing your team’s visits to data center facilities during the COVID19 crisis. Silverback’s mission is to support people who run data centers. This mission takes on special meaning in light of the current crisis. We can support clients in the San Francisco Bay… Read More
Recruiting the Best IT Talent
2020 marks the start of a new decade but not the end of the IT talent shortage, which has data centers worldwide scrambling to find and retain skilled employees. It’s a skills crisis that will likely deepen throughout the 2020s as U.S. labor growth slows to only 0.4% annually, the massive Baby Boomer generation ages deeper into retirement, and colleges and universities struggle to produce enough of the skilled tech… Read More
Data Center Staffing: Pro Tips
There are several different types of data centers and they all have at least one thing in common. Each facility requires effective data center staffing. From hyperscale data centers with massive square footage to small facilities using edge deployment, finding, training, and keeping IT professionals is a key component to managing a data center. Regardless of the type or size of the data center, there are three main sets of… Read More
The Ideal Data Center Engineer: Hard and Soft Skill Sets
The U.S. data center market is expected to be worth $10 billion by 2023 — growing at a CAGR of 5% from 2018-2023—with no chance of slowing down anytime soon. Automation, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning systems are rapidly changing normal data center operations, making it difficult to predict what the industry will be like in the long-term. Because of this accelerated growth and… Read More
