Digital Futures Programme

CNet Training

CNet Training is recognised throughout the world for being the global industry leader and the only industry dedicated education provider to award both internationally recognised qualifications and professional certifications, starting at qualification level 3 through to a level 7 Masters Degree in Data Centre Leadership and Management. A significant part of CNet Training’s history is the development of the highly acclaimed Global Digital Infrastructure Education Framework, which allows individuals to plan data centre knowledge and skills progression, qualifications and certifications to meet individual career aspirations.

VIRTUS Data Centres

VIRTUS Data Centres (VIRTUS), London’s leading data centre company and part of ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC), builds and operates the UK’s most efficient facilities which underpin the UK’s digital economy.

VIRTUS has over a decade of experience designing and operating cutting-edge data centres in London’s metro. Over the years, it has built a strong reputation for providing Operational Excellence and delivering robust, complex solutions for the most demanding Global customers. It is home to large and small enterprises, global hyperscale cloud customers, banks, charities, universities and technology start-ups.

CyrusOne

CyrusOne (NASDAQ: CONE) is a premier global REIT specializing in design, construction and operation of more than 50 high-performance data centers worldwide. The Company provides mission-critical facilities that ensure the continued operation of IT infrastructure for approximately 1,000 customers, including approximately 200 Fortune 1000 companies.

A leader in hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud deployments, CyrusOne offers colocation, hyperscale, and build-to-suit environments that help customers enhance the strategic connection of their essential data infrastructure and support achievement of sustainability goals. CyrusOne data centers offer world-class flexibility, enabling clients to modernize, simplify, and rapidly respond to changing demand. Combining exceptional financial strength with a broad global footprint, CyrusOne provides customers with long-term stability and strategic advantage at scale.

CBRE

The World’s Leading Full Service Data Centre Services Partner

CBRE Data Centre Solutions (DCS) delivers fully integrated real estate, facilities and technology solutions for data centre owners, occupiers and investors across the globe. As a dedicated business line within CBRE, DCS is dedicated to solving complex challenges within every stage of the data centre lifecycle. Whether you are looking to develop, build, buy, sell, or manage and modernise one data centre or an entire portfolio—DCS can help your priorities succeed with certainty.

700+ data centres managed including enterprise, colocation and hyperscale/ 50+ countries represented with a global network of deep experience/ $1.7B in transactions per year delivering proactive insights and expertise locally, regionally and globally.

Amazon Web Services

For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering.

AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 21 more Availability Zones and seven more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, Israel, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates.

Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.

LMG

Based in central London, with revenues of £35m, LMG has been providing ICT, facilities management and corporate real estate infrastructure services since 1986. Working across a wide range of industries including; financial services, technology, communications, government, hospitality and residential, we help global organisations plan, install and manage the smart building systems and infrastructure they need for inspirational workplaces, efficient data centres and connected homes.

Our data centre services include the design & build of landlord/operator areas with smart building technology, ICT infrastructure, audio-visual and electronic security systems, in addition to the fit-out of white space and provision of tenant support.

ARK Data Centres (Crown Hosting Data Centres Limited)

Crown Hosting Data Centres Limited is a unique joint venture between the Cabinet Office and Ark Data Centres dedicated to serving the Public Sector. Together we are the trusted partner of the UK Government delivering increased efficiency, improved value, and transparency of Data Centre Services.

Combined, we bring the Government assurance, integrity and capabilities of the Public Sector, unified with the speed of execution and flexibility of the Private Sector.

We offer all Public Sector organisations the same foundation to create and inspire change, opportunities to transform, move forward, consolidate infrastructure, and migrate to new platforms using a more efficient and cost-effective model.

Yondr

Yondr is a developer, owner operator and service provider of hyperscale data centres. The company’s mission is to meet growing businesses’ data centre capacity and technical real estate needs faster, more elegantly and with better performance outcomes than anyone else. As an organisation, Yondr self-funds, designs, delivers and operates hyperscale data centre facilities globally.

Kao Data

Founded in 2014, Kao Data develops and operates high performance data centres for advanced computing. With hyperscale-inspired facilities east and west of London, it provides enterprise, cloud, HPC and AI customers with a world-class home for their compute.

Kao Data is backed by leading international investors and our state-of-the-art, OCP-Ready and DGX-Ready data centres are designed, engineered and operated by one of the industry’s most respected teams.

With a combined footprint of 55MW, all utilising 100% renewable energy, Kao Data is trusted to house the most demanding compute infrastructure today, including NVIDIA’s Cambridge-1, the UK’s most powerful supercomputer.

JLL

JLL UK, a leading professional services firm specialising in real estate and investment management.

JLL take pride in choosing the more intelligent, optimistic, and collaborative way forward. With over 200 years of real estate experience, they are,and always have been, in continual pursuit of brighter ways of working. Their expertise is backed by mass global intelligence, emerging technologies, and data and insights, allowing them to uncover smarter solutions for clients in the UK and globally, all backed up with local insights for UK clients.

Vertiv

Vertiv brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to enable its customers’ vital applications to run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs.

Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today’s data centers, communication networks and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extends from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Westerville, Ohio, USA, Vertiv does business in more than 130 countries.