Top ten skills in data center field

What skills do employees in the IT department have to be "invincible" during the economic downturn? Today, the enterprise's data center has become the center of attention. If you are involved in the technology and management areas associated with data centers, there are some skills that you must have. Recently, the United States "receptacle World" listed the data center in the field of ten top skills. As the pace of transition to a new generation of data centers accelerates, these skills will become a necessity for the IT pros in their careers.

1. Virtualization

As a basic technology for an advanced IT infrastructure, the importance of virtualization skills is self-evident. Today, people who have mastered virtualization technology have a lot of space in their work choices. This will continue for a certain period of time until virtualized applications are pervasive in the data center, and virtualization becomes a conventional it skill.

2. Service Management

Enterprise migration of IT applications to the public cloud is becoming a popular one. In this process, data center personnel must improve their service management skills. Today, the only way to know how to manage the System Management Program (HYPERVISOR) and to move on the infrastructure is no longer sufficient. People have to turn their minds into an environment in which capacity and demand management are integrated. To do this, they must master service management skills. Some professionals point out that software services and infrastructure services are being used more and more, and that these things will be grouped together over the next 5 years, and that data center personnel will manage all content through service management technology.

3. The trend of unified computing for the unified calculation of

will continue for 3-5 years. The fact that Cisco, HP and IBM have acted in the field of unified communications, integration of infrastructure and cloud computing has proved this. and unified computing has naturally become a popular data center skill. Experts point out that each type of data center person must have up-to-date information on the concept, principles and architecture of unified computing. Instead of just knowing how to add more processing power or storage resources, data center managers should understand how to deliver business value and services.

4. Green IT

"Green Road" is a requirement for enterprises all over the world. In the Enterprise data center, need to have a specialized personnel to pay attention to the whole data center green construction and operation problem. This professional will focus on deploying green technologies and avoiding the deployment of non-green technologies. Because green technology often improves it's operational efficiency, such people will actually prove their worth again and again.

5. Resource Management

today, the effective and strategic handling of conversations between it and infrastructure is a key skill in data center management. For example, when capacity planning is made without considering energy consumption and cooling, a"Castles in the castle" plan. It teams now need people who can actually track these things, speak the language that basic engineering people understand, and translate their comments and suggestions to IT departments. Such skills are sometimes included in the job requirements of so-called resource managers or infrastructure liaisons, while in some enterprises data center planning and Key System engineers are required to possess such skills.

6. Engineering

For some enterprises, the most popular skills and the hardest to find are the mechanical and electrical engineers who are proficient in technology and have an effective knowledge of current equipment and systems. Today's idea of data center construction is quite different from what it was three or four years ago. When deploying virtualization, data Center building is actually built around electrical load and cooling. This is the complexity of the project caused by the high density of the server.

7. Network

Remote data centers become viable because of network technology. This makes network skills receive high attention. Today's data center managers must be familiar with network configuration, hardware performance, and security vulnerabilities. But the enterprise has the strong demand to the good master network specialized knowledge or has the network background the IT personnel. They also serve as key personnel to ensure the overall availability of the IT environment and to improve uptime of the system.

8. Financial Analysis

Financial Analysis is an emerging skill required for data center professionals and is one of the hottest skills in the field. Today's data center operations I need people who can identify applications and technical economics based on business economics. In other words, if the application does not require ultra-high availability, data center professionals should be able to analyze the data to find out whether the application can be moved to the cloud or left on the dedicated hardware in the datacenter. After the data center evolves into a business center, the importance of financial analysis skills will be further demonstrated.

9. Project Management

Project management capability has been a key it skill, and the need for strong project management and business Analytics skills is increasing in a new generation of data centers. With the adoption of the IT budget in 2010, companies started to launch new data center projects. And a wealth of project management experience is necessary to practice these new projects.

10. Communication

Data center insiders generally believe that good communication skills are essential. Communication and management skills are particularly important when considering a data Center manager candidate. The data center world is changing rapidly, and management capability means maintaining a structured environment. And this process needs to be communicated. Therefore, good communication skills are essential. Even if data center professionals do not communicate with business people, there is a need for a lot of communication within the IT department.

(editor: Heritage)