KITs Technologies

To mitigate its impact, KITs Technologies said that it would train data centre operators, managers, consultants and IT network managers involved in the design, specification and operation of data centres and computer rooms.

The training, which is going to be a weeklong session, would have a day as free and other days would be at a cost.

The free training comes up on November 12 while the formal training will run from November 13 to 17, 2012.

According to the Director, Business and Strategy at KITs Technologies, Taofeek Okoya, the training would put the targeted audience in-tune with the latest in data centre operation and management standards covering design standards, energy efficient cooling, needed power requirement, strict compliance to Tier standards, correct operational procedures, capacity management, green agenda metrics and many more.

Okoya said that one key thing that would shape IT and drove businesses in Nigeria was data centre and remained a key business enabler in growing major businesses in coming years.

He noted that data centre would rank among the top 10 paid jobs come 2013 as mobile operators in the country had huge capacities to drive this, adding that there was need for companies to buy into it.

“It is on record that data centre outages nowadays is high and equally there is a growing need to have a next-generation data centre with reduced complexity to serve as the needed business enabler that will deliver breakthrough economic benefits,” he said.

KITS Technologies Limited through it strategic alliance with Capitoline, a UK-based Data Centre Specialist with over 25 years experience in data centre management across Europe, had been engaging aggressively in human capacity development of data centre stakeholders to reduce the likelihood of outages and encourage data centre energy efficiency.

General Manager, Sales and Marketing, KITs Technologies, Kazeem Keshinroles, said that there was high necessity for data centre owners to build competent human capacity to manage their high cost infrastructure.

According to him, this would help reduce unwarranted complex operational procedures and engender world class operational management model, reduce operational waste and deliver the needed breakthrough economic benefits.

KITs Customer Relationship Manager, Queen Adaji, noted that the technology space was moving at a speed of light, with ample room and opportunities for the technically-savvy ones and no space for the deficient.

She added that data centre is a multi-billion investment that cannot be left in the hands of personnel lacking in-depth understanding of what is takes to manage the expensive infrastructure. He said that DC requires Competent Personnel with the requisite knowledge to manage them.

Source: http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=103915:kits-technologies-rues-challenges-of-data-centres-plans-training&catid=55:compulife&Itemid=391