Aruba S.p.A – a leading Italian cloud provider in data centre services, web hosting, e-mail, PEC and domain registration – is continuing efforts towards bridging the skills gap through the further addition of specialised training courses at their training school, Aruba Academy.
The school was designed and launched to help combat the growing problem of the IT skills gap in the data centre industry and aims to educate and prepare young future IT professionals for technical roles in the sector. In total, the courses Aruba Academy offers amount to around 30,000 hours of training per year, dedicated to coaching the data centre professionals of the future. In addition to IT training, Aruba Academy will also offer staff certification and produce digital e-learning content.
One of the key challenges of digitalisation is the surge in demand for workers with technical education and skills such as programming and data centre operations, among other specialised qualifications. Yet only 26% of UK graduates come from STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) courses, while similarly, only 16% of the Italian population aged 20-29 has a degree in a STEM subject. From this, it gauged a picture of the current scenario in Europe, with this lack of technical higher education a driving force behind the growing difficulty organisations are having in finding suitable professionals with the required technical expertise.
For those who successfully complete their training course, there will be an opportunity to obtain a longer-term employment contract at the company, to continue to progress their professional training and learn alongside experienced Aruba data centre professionals.
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