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Jumpstart Your Career in Data Centers: Featuring Careers for Women, Trades, and Vets in Tech and Data Centers Kindle Edition
This first-of-its-kind, peer-reviewed book bridges the gap between IT and facilities. It takes a holistic approach to explaining mission-critical data centers, from site selection to the cloud and all things between.
Whether your site is hyperscale, colo, cloud, or an on-premises data center, this book covers everything you need to know to find these highly sought-after and lucrative careers.
We showcase about 200 jobs for technical and non-technical seekers, skilled trades, and degreed professions.
Here is what you need to know about topics such as power, sustainability, cooling, site selection, physical security, construction, design considerations, networking, servers, storage, cybersecurity, whitespace management, types of data centers, operations, and the myriad of ways to earn a great living with opportunities for growth.
New to the industry or thinking about joining?
This book will give you the basics to get jumpstarted with a good overall understanding of the pieces, parts, and smarts and how they work together to keep our digital infrastructure working.
The data center industry is actively hiring at all skill levels. There are jobs for almost everyone, regardless of your degree.
This book answers the who, what, where, when, why, and how of data centers in an easily digestible format, explaining:
- Who has opportunities in this industry (way more than you think)
- What is a data center, and how does the ecosystem work
- Where do we find out about scholarships, trade support, veterans' resources, and women's resources
- When in my career can I start (hint: jobs for non-degreed and degreed professions)
- Why is this industry important, and why should you consider joining the ranks
- How do I jumpstart my knowledge and see not if but WHERE I fit in at my desired career level
Reasons to pursue a career in the mission critical industry are:
- Potential starting salary of over $100,000
- Your college debt paid
- Jobs available everywhere, with or without degrees
- Scholarships
- Certifications
- Trades
- Women's resources
- Veteran resources
- Ongoing networking
- Over two years of podcasts from people in the industry
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication date22 October 2022
- File size9830 KB
Product details
- ASIN : B0BHTTHW57
- Publisher : JETLAUNCH (22 October 2022)
- Language : English
- File size : 9830 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 212 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #376,060 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,199 in Networking & Communications eBooks
- #2,373 in Network Administration
- #18,829 in Education (Kindle Store)
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About the author

Carrie Goetz, Principal/CTO, StrategITcom, personifies over 40 years of global experience designing, running, and auditing, data centers and IT departments. She is an international keynote speaker and is globally published in 69 countries in over 250 publications.
Amongst her accolades:
Top 25 Women in Mission Critical 2022, Mission Critical Magazine
30 Top Most Influential Women in Tech 2021 by CIO Outlook
Top 10 most influential women in technology 2020 by Analytics Insight, honored as a
Network Computing Inspiration Award finalist 2020
IMason’s IM100
2020 Comptia Women in Leadership Spotlight Finalist.
She holds an honorary doctorate in Mission Critical Operations, RCDD/NTS, PSP, CNID, CDCP, CSM-Agile, AWS CCP and is a Master Infrastructure Mason with 40+ certifications throughout her career. She served on the WIMCO national education committee and is a long-time participant in 7x24Exchange, AFCOM and Data Center Institute board of advisors, Mission Critical Advisory Board, Women in Data Centers, CNet Technical Curriculum Advisory Board, NEDAS Advisory Board, a member of BICSI, Women in BICSI, and an Education committee member, and a member of Women Leading Technology Sorority. She champions STEM education through outreach projects and her podcast series. She holds two patents.
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