I am getting ready to take my exam to become a Certified Data Center Design Professional. The exam is focused on Data Center Management, Energy, Technical, Project, Practitioner.
It has been an interesting online educational journey, plus taking my years of experience, putting them together and finally get my certification.
What has been the most interesting to me is the transformation over the years. Where are data centers really going, will Corporate data centers become a thing of the past? Probably not, smaller scale, more virtual, and focused on core applicaitons, but not going away. They will become more hybrid in nature giving SaaS, PaaS and bursting to the cloud a bigger role in the organization.
What has been disappointing in the course as well as really life is the lack of focus on business continuity. How many data centers really don't have a solid and tested disaster recovery plan? A disaster recovery plan is a recovery plan, but what about the business continuity? How will the business function while the data center is offline? There needs to a plan in place to manage the risk of the data center, key application or data being unavailable.
I am excited to take this journey and the exam.
Keep it positive!
Scott Arnett
scott.arnett@charter.net
About Me
- Scott Arnett
- Scott Arnett is an Information Technology & Security Professional Executive with over 30 years experience in IT. Scott has worked in various industries such as health care, insurance, manufacturing, broadcast, printing, and consulting and in enterprises ranging in size from $50M to $20B in revenue. Scott’s experience encompasses the following areas of specialization: Leadership, Strategy, Architecture, Business Partnership & Acumen, Process Management, Infrastructure and Security. With his broad understanding of technology and his ability to communicate successfully with both Executives and Technical Specialists, Scott has been consistently recognized as someone who not only can "Connect the Dots", but who can also create a workable solution. Scott is equally comfortable playing technical, project management/leadership and organizational leadership roles through experience gained throughout his career. Scott has previously acted in the role of CIO, CTO, and VP of IT, successfully built 9 data centers across the country, and is expert in understanding ITIL, PCI Compliance, SOX, HIPAA, FERPA, FRCP and COBIT.
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