SKILLS SPOTLIGHT
CNET INTRODUCES ITS CERTIFIED
DATA CENTER SUSTAINABILITY
PROFESSIONAL (CDCSP) PROGRAM
The Certified Data Center Sustainability Professional
(CDCSP) program teaches senior data centre operational
and facilities management, team leaders and senior
engineers how they can become more aware of
sustainability within their mission critical facility.
Andrew Stevens, CEO, CNet Training, discusses the
new program in more detail.
I
nternational award-winning technical
education company, CNet Training,
has been designing and delivering
professional network infrastructure
education and training programs since
1996. Today, CNet is the global leader
in technical education for the digital
infrastructure industry, comprising the
data centre and network infrastructure
sectors, and is the only industry
dedicated education provider in the
world to award both internationally
recognised qualifications and professional
certifications. These qualifications start at
level 3 and culminate in the world’s only
level 7 Masters Degree programme in Data
Center Leadership and Management.
With sustainability being at the forefront
of industry across the world, CNet has
reviewed and updated the content of
its Certified Data Center Sustainability
Professional (CDCSP) program to reflect
the latest sector needs and innovations.
Data usage commercially and personally
is constantly increasing and with this
continued growth in demand, the data
centre sector needs to be doing as
much as it can to become more efficient
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and more sustainable and implement
strategies that can also address the
ever-growing demand for its services.
The Certified Data Center Sustainability
Professional (CDCSP) program teaches
senior data centre operational and
facilities management, team leaders and
senior engineers how they can become
more aware of sustainability within their
mission-critical facility.
Here, Andrew Stevens, CEO, CNet
Training, introduces the new Certified
Data Center Sustainability Professional
(CDCSP) program.
What can learners expect to gain
from the program?
The CDCSP is designed to utilise
existing data centre knowledge, skills
and experience, and combine it with a
greater understanding centred around
technical collaboration and innovative
approaches targeting sustainability
within a data centre facility and the
creation and implementation of a long-
term sustainability strategy to support
the business.
Can you give us an overview
of the Certified Data Center
Sustainability Professional
(CDCSP) program?
The CDCSP program teaches how to
create and implement a sustainability
strategy for mission-critical facilities.
The comprehensive program provides in-
depth knowledge into the steps required
to evaluate, analyse, plan, implement
and monitor a sustainability strategy,
balanced with operational capability for
data centre facilities.
Andrew Stevens, CEO, CNet Training
www.intelligentdatacentres.com