{"id":96931,"date":"2024-03-14T09:49:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T09:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/?p=96931"},"modified":"2024-03-26T16:04:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T16:04:30","slug":"uptime-institute-launches-data-center-academy-in-kingdom-of-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/2024\/03\/14\/uptime-institute-launches-data-center-academy-in-kingdom-of-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Uptime Institute\u00a0launches Data\u00a0Center Academy\u00a0in\u00a0Kingdom\u00a0of Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Uptime Institute&nbsp;has&nbsp;announced&nbsp;the&nbsp;launch&nbsp;of&nbsp;the Uptime Institute Data Center Academy&nbsp;in&nbsp;the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in&nbsp;collaboration with&nbsp;the&nbsp;Tuwaiq Academy and the&nbsp;Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The academy\u00a0will train hundreds of individuals each year, supporting the\u00a0Kingdom\u2019s\u00a0ambition to employ over 5000 new digital talents in commercial data centres within the next six years.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Uptime Institute Data Center Academy aims&nbsp;to build and strengthen a sustainable ecosystem for the development of knowledge and skills in the digital infrastructure field in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.&nbsp;The&nbsp;academy will provide candidates&nbsp;with&nbsp;comprehensive training, including formal and on-the-job training, continuous assessment and support,&nbsp;educating&nbsp;them with the skills and&nbsp;expertise needed to start lucrative careers in the thriving digital infrastructure industry, encompassing the data centre and network cabling sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;initiative will contribute to enhancing the job market in the data centre and related ICT sectors, building&nbsp;a robust national talent pool that&nbsp;supports&nbsp;the&nbsp;Saudi&nbsp;Vision 2030 Digital Transformation Agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This partnership aligns with Saudi Vision 2030 and the commitment of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology to empower Saudi youth with the skills needed to thrive in the digital economy,&#8221;&nbsp;said&nbsp;Ibrahim Al-Nasser, Deputy Minister for Future Jobs and Capabilities at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mustapha Louni, Chief Business Officer of Uptime Institute, expressed pride in being part of Saudi Vision 2030 to build a successful digital society and contribute to accelerating the Digital Transformation process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The academy, in collaboration with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and Tuwaiq Academy, aims to bridge the talent gap and support the expected growth in data centre capacity. The integrated learning journey provided by the academy is designed to catalyse key sectors of the future economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abdulaziz Alhammadi, CEO of Tuwaiq Academy, emphasised Tuwaiq Academy&#8217;s role in empowering specialists with essential skills in the labour market, particularly in the field of data science. The academy aims to develop specialized Saudi capabilities in emerging technologies to meet the demands of the job market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uptime Institute&nbsp;is the Global Digital Infrastructure Authority,&nbsp;and&nbsp;the author and exclusive certifier of the Tier Standards, which have&nbsp;been used&nbsp;in the design,&nbsp;construction and operations of thousands of data centre sites in more than 114 countries.&nbsp;Over 90,000 digital infrastructure professionals from countries around the world have looked to Uptime Institute\u2019s&nbsp;education&nbsp;programmes to help them grow their business and advance their careers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Uptime Institute Data Center Academy is actively engaging with local colleges and universities in the Kingdom to&nbsp;raise industry awareness and support among young&nbsp;Saudis&nbsp;and&nbsp;provide access to globally respected digital infrastructure education programmes in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uptime Institute&nbsp;has&nbsp;announced&nbsp;the&nbsp;launch&nbsp;of&nbsp;the Uptime Institute Data Center Academy&nbsp;in&nbsp;the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in&nbsp;collaboration with&nbsp;the&nbsp;Tuwaiq Academy and the&nbsp;Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.&nbsp; The academy\u00a0will train hundreds of individuals each year, supporting the\u00a0Kingdom\u2019s\u00a0ambition to employ over 5000 new digital talents in commercial data centres within the next six years.\u00a0 The Uptime Institute Data Center Academy aims&nbsp;to build [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":96932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6787,417,93,15994,13,79],"tags":[17559,53,790,277,13939,131],"class_list":["post-96931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-transformation","category-education","category-main-story-newsletter","category-middle-east","category-top-stories","category-used","tag-data-center-academy","tag-education","tag-ksa","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-tuwaiq-academy","tag-uptime-institute"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96931"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97418,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96931\/revisions\/97418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}