The gap between the beginning of a major public outage and full recovery has stretched significantly over the last five years. Nearly 30% of these outages in 2021 lasted more than 24 hours, a disturbing increase from just 8% in 2017.

An Uptime Institute study shows that approximately 50% of the data center industry workforce is primarily male with over 20 years of industry experience. 

As demand for senior-level data center professionals and IT/facility engineers with advanced sustainability expertise continues to rise, sustainability skill sets have never been more valuable or impactful. 

The launch of this comprehensive executive advisory series is the latest step in Uptime’s longstanding and expanding program to inform, guide, and support sustainability efforts within the sector — and it comes at a critical time for digital infrastructure operators. 

The Career Pathfinder is not a job site but an exploratory resource that lists more than 230 different types of job roles that span the design, build, and operation of data centers, ranging from sustainability strategy to construction.

In response to recent high-profile FSI outages and increasingly complex hybrid IT architectures, over 30 financial supervisory authorities in Europe, in conjunction with the European Banking Authority, have implemented regulatory requirements designed to encourage more effective risk management practices.