CDFOM Sneak Peek - What It Covers, Who It's For, and Why It Matters
Running a data center today goes far beyond keeping the lights on. Operations leaders face the reality of advancing technologies, labour shortages, and the need to build resilient teams capable of thriving in high stakes environment.
Do these challenges sound familiar?
- Balancing uptime guarantees with increasing AI-driven and hyperscale workloads, where even minor failures can cascade into major outages.
- Struggling to keep teams aligned when new hires come from outside the industry.
- Fighting to maintain consistent standards across multiple shifts and facilities, especially when staff turnover erodes institutional knowledge.
- Managing aging infrastructure while integrating new technologies, without disrupting mission-critical operations.
- Feeling pressure to do more with less. Shrinking teams, lean budgets, but rising expectations for zero downtime.
These aren’t “operator errors”, they reflect the complexity of modern data center operations.
The CDFOM (Certified Data Center Facilities Operations Manager) course is built to help data center operations leaders/managers take control of the complexity with repeatable frameworks, risk-mitigation methods, and proven leadership practices that bring clarity and stability to mission critical environments.
Speaker
Jan Willem Mooren
Chief Technology Officer
EPI Group of Companies
With more than 35 years in IT and data centers, Jan Willem Mooren is a respected authority, advancing global data center training and standards. As CTO of EPI, he leads the development of the training curriculum and actively conducts operations audits across EMEA and APAC enterprise, colocation and hyperscale data centers. He was instrumental in creating the world’s first comprehensive Data Center Operations Standard (DCOS), chairing a global committee of operations managers and consultants to define the best practices that have set a new benchmark for the industry. Known for his intellectual clarity, Jan has the ability to translate complex technical subjects into clear structured information for audiences at every level.
