CNet Training has announced Pacific and Strategic Group (PSG) as its Media Partner for the Asian Pacific region.

As a CNet Media Partner, PSG market and sell the suite of CNet data centre courses to its target audience throughout the countries of the Asia Pacific region. The courses are delivered either directly by the CNet Technical delivery team or by one of CNet’s licensed delivery partners.

CNet Training has over 14 years experience of providing the highest quality training courses for communications professionals throughout the world. They have developed the first and only internationally recognized program of data centre courses covering all aspects of data centre design, management and operational environments. The courses, created through industry consultation, have been designed to define best practice and standards compliance.

PSG is an intelligent media company specialised in producing conferences, print media, online channels and research products focused on specific IT & Technology niche markets. At the company’s core lies the largest and fastest growing data centre specific media platform in Asia Pacific with the largest audience and the largest number of vendor and industry partners.

CNet Training Managing Director; Andrew Stevens said, CNet is thrilled to work with a company of PSG’s calibre; this presents a fantastic and exciting opportunity for the CDCDP qualification and it’s prominence in Asia. Following our continued success in Europe, the Middle East and the United States, PSG are the perfect regional partner to ensure the growth and adoption of our brands within the Asia Pacific arena.

For more information on CNet Training’s portfolio of professional data centre training courses, visit www.cnet-training.com or call +44 (0)1284 767100

The data center industry and The US Department of Energy are partnering to develop a certification process; the Data Center Energy Practitioner (DCEP) leading to qualified individuals able to evaluate the energy status and efficiency opportunities in data centers. The key objective of this new qualification is to raise the standards of those involved in energy assessments, to accelerate energy savings in the dynamic and energy intensive marketplace of data centers.

Through a significant period of collaboration, The US Department of Energy has confirmed that the CDCDP™ program by CNet has been officially accepted as a pre-qualification for their specialist DCEP certification.

In recognition of the companies’ status as a truly global technical training company, CNet were invited to attend and comment on the DCEP pilot course in San Francisco in April. CNet’s Group Technical Director-Gary Thornton attended the pilot course, after an intense training program and tough examination he successfully passed the initial “Generalist Level” examination and has now passed the HVAC “Specialist” element of the DCEP program. The DCEP program is designed to be a highly technical specialist certification, Gary’s achievement on this course highlights his vast technical knowledge and ability, and it is this expertise which reinforces CNet’s proud position as market leader in technical training.

“It was an excellent course and when the full program is developed from these initial pilots, I’m sure CNet will add it to their growing portfolio of data centre training courses”, Gary Thornton said.

CNet’s Managing Director-Andrew Stevens also commented “for CNet to be invited onto this new program and Gary to be the only non US attendee, is fantastic recognition of CNet’s global presence and acceptance by the industry as a market leader and innovator; it also confirms the CDCDP™ program as a leading worldwide data centre qualification. We are looking forward to working closely with the US government on this new specialist training program”.

For more information on CNet Training’s portfolio of professional data centre training courses, visit www.cnet-training.com or call +44 (0)1284 767100