Intelligent Data Centres Issue 38 | Page 6

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BCS launches 2022 apprenticeship programme

NEWS hese are exciting , yet challenging times in the industry , as we move away from the direct disruption of the

T pandemic into a bow wave of supply shortages of materials and labour , plus hyperinflation and the ongoing sustainability and efficiency drive . Business Critical Solutions ( BCS ), the specialist business dedicated to optimising digital infrastructure across the globe , has started recruiting for 2022 apprenticeship programme .

This is the fourth year of the programme , which is run in partnership with South Bank University and is part of the company ’ s commitment to helping to tackle the welldocumented skills shortage in the engineering and data centre sector .
BCS will be on the lookout for future data centre professionals and leaders and is hoping yet again this year to attract top candidates . As part of BCS , long-term growth strategy , the programme this year has been extended to include the following course : BSc ( Hons ) Construction Project Management . This course enables BCS to broaden its search and further strengthen the project management offering within the business . BCS also continues to offer the BSc ( Hons ) Quantity Surveying course .

Uptime Institute launches new professional service offering

ptime Institute has announced the launch of its new Standardised , Comprehensive Infrastructure Risk

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Assessment for Financial Sector Institutions ( SCIRA- FSI ). SCIRA-FSI is a new professional service offering by the Global Digital Infrastructure Authority , Uptime Institute , that assesses critical IT environments across enterprise data centres , multi-tenant data centres and public and private clouds to identify and mitigate physical and operational outage risks . digital infrastructure outage risk ,” said Ali Moinuddin , Managing Director , Europe , Uptime Institute . “ As regulatory pressure mounts in Europe and beyond , FSIs are compelled to increase their understanding of systemic vulnerabilities and minimise outage risk to support all critical business services and improve operational resilience .”
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 . These require regulated FSIs to periodically assess outage risks across its complete data centre estate . This focus by regulators and governments on minimising FSI outages is rapidly spreading across the globe , with similar requirements from the Bank of England and Prudential Regulatory Authority , Federal Reserve and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in the US , the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission , among others .
“ Our new SCIRA-FSI programme gives FSIs a way to thoroughly assess their entire data centre estate and identify and mitigate
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