Computer Warehouse Group Launches $10mn Data Centre in Lagos

LAGOS, NIGERIA: Nigeria’s Computer Warehouse Group (CWG) has launched a $10 million ultra-modern data centre in Lagos. The company said that the tier three grade data centre, which was constructed within 24 months, would provide services for its customers, banks and small to medium enterprises. Speaking at the commissioning of the centre in Lagos, Austin Okere, chief executive officer of the company,...

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November/December, 2013 WASSCE result is out

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released what its official called ‘a discouraging’ result for the November/December 2013 West African Senior School Certificate Examination. The WAEC Head of the National Office, Mr Charles Eguridu said that there was worrisome decline in candidates’ performance in the examination when compared with students’ performance in 2011 and 2012. “This year, 2013, we have a total of 86,612 candidates...

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new A+ certification training materials

Total Seminars, a Houston-based computer training company, has recently announced the release of its new A+ certification training materials. A leading provider of educational materials designed to help professionals enter the field of information technology and pass exams to obtain necessary industry certifications, Total Seminars now offers the A+ training materials are the latest in the company's series of learning and training tools. The A+ certification examination helps individuals looking to enter the field of information technology,...

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000-614 DB2 10.1 Advanced DBA for Linux UNIX and Windows

IBM 000-614 examination is incredibly alter to those who are appealing while in the IT area. If somebody hopes to complete the IBM 000-614 examination, and obtain the IBM certification correctly, should just opt for 000-614 DB2 10.1 Advanced DBA for Linux UNIX and Windows thoroughly. There are a number connected with advantages when you've obtained your own IBM 000-614 certification. At ...

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get a free microsoft exam on Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center

Are you responsible for designing, implementing, and managing a virtualization infrastructure? Looking for a way to validates your skills on current virtualization technologies? Wondering how you can improve the trajectory of your career? Now is your chance to do just that, with free online training and an exam voucher from Microsoft! What you get: The title of Microsoft Certified Specialist: Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center How you will get it: Step 1: Read up on the skills measured...

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The beta period will soon be closing for the Oracle Linux 5 and 6 System Administration

The beta period will soon be closing for the Oracle Linux 5 and 6 System Administration (Exam 1Z1-100). This is your last opportunity to take the certification exam at the greatly discounted rate of $50 USD, as well as be one of the first to hold this new certification. The exam, leads to the Oracle Certified Associate, Oracle Linux 5 and 6 System Administrator (OCA) certification. This certification is designed to give you a solid foundation of knowledge to implement and administer the Oracle Linux...

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Western Africa’s first Tier III data center has gone live in Lagos

Western Africa’s first Tier III data center has gone live in Lagos with 3,000 rack spaces and 6 Mva of power, making it the most powerful data center in the region. Rack Centre, part of the Lagos-based Jagal Group, said it is the first Tier III-designed, neutral colocation data center facility offering services in Nigeria and Western Africa. The company said it has set its sights on “positioning Nigeria at the center of the worldwide growth in disaster recovery, data storage and cloud-based data centre services”. The data center...

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CBT Nuggets announces a new training course

CBT Nuggets announces a new training course, “Cisco CCNP Data Center 642-999 DCUCI.” Trainer and Cisco expert Anthony Sequeira created this video training course, which guides viewers through the implementation of Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS). Sequeira covers C- and B-series servers, the UCS chassis, Fabric Interconnects, and much more. This 20-video course also maps to objectives for the 642-999 exam, one of the exams required to earn CCNP Data Center certification. "Cisco CCNP Data Center 642-999 DCUCI" is available, along...

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Entry Software announces the release of version 7.0,

Building on the success of its flagship product, TeamHeadquarters, Entry Software announces the release of version 7.0, which will allow the company to expand into the IT Service Management marketplace."TeamHeadquarters v.7 will definitely change the way IT views a request. They are not just individual work tasks, but integral to the big picture – the total needs of an enterprise," said Mark Donais, CEO and founder of Entry Software.Donais added that the newest version of TeamHeadquarters goes beyond the traditional contribution of IT and focuses...

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Oracle FLEXCUBE expands capabilities to support

Today's financial services landscape calls for seamless, rich and individualized online and mobile experiences for consumers, new ways to meet increasing regulatory pressures and the ability to continually drive improved performance. Oracle FLEXCUBE has expanded capabilities to support these areas including new contactless payment and rich, personalized portal enhancements as well as new Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) certification and Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) compliance. Oracle...

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WebCenter Portal 11.1.1.8 is part of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Release 1 Version 11.1.1.8.

Oracle WebCenter Suite is an integrated suite of Fusion Middleware 11gR1 tools used to create web sites and portals using service-oriented architecture (SOA). Applications adapters are also available. WebCenter Portal 11.1.1.8 is now certified with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2. This complements our existing certifications of WebCenter Portal 11.1.1.8 with EBS 12.0 and 12.1. WebCenter Portal 11.1.1.8 is part of Oracle Fusion Middleware...

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nigeria set to host Oracle Day 2013

Oracle Nigeria will hold its third Oracle Day in Nigeria’s capital city of Abuja on November 5, offering delegates the chance to learn how businesses can leverage disruptive technologies. In addition to Abuja, Oracle Day events will also be held in more than 30 cities in other parts of Africa, Middle East and Europe, under the theme “Converge. Connect. Empower the Modern Enterprise”. “Oracle Day events offer stories of innovation across multiple industries, geographies and disciplines, with the discussion focused on real-world...

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Effects of new support dates on Java upgrades for EBS environments

Java Runtime Environment 7u45 (a.k.a. JRE 7u45-b18) and later updates on the JRE 7 codeline are now certified with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i and 12.0, 12.1, and 12.2 for Windows-based desktop clients. Effects of new support dates on Java upgrades for EBS environments Support dates for the E-Business Suite and Java have changed. Please review the sections below for more details: What does this mean for Oracle E-Business Suite users? Will EBS users be forced to upgrade to JRE 7 for Windows desktop clients? ...

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CompTIA Addresses Growing Mobile Security App Needs

The worldwide mobile device market continues to soar in both the consumer and business realms. This is making mobile device integration, management and application security some of the most needed services among organizations and critical skillsets for solution providers. To help address this CompTIA has introduced a new skills certification for solution providers and developers designed to raise security awareness and preparedness around mobile application development. CompTIA Mobile App Security+ is vendor-neutral and validates the skills...

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Data centre training for Africa

Data centre design and data centre management has, over the past decade, evolved into a profession that requires formal training and development. The need for exposure to recognised data centre standards, guidelines and best practices has become self-evident due to the evolution of the data centre professional. Gone are the days where individuals must handle the complexities of myriad data centre components through traditional engineering methods, gut feel, and trial and error. Annually, the data centre fraternity can serve up a fair quantity...

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Cisco CCNA v2.0 120-200 Certification

There has a been a lot of discussion and confusion surrounding what the Cisco CCNA exam changes will mean to students who are currently studying for their CCNA certification. So hopefully this can make it very easy for readers to understand while assisting in obtaining the CCNA certification. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjgTPyxJM0Y The first thing one may notice is that the name of the certification has changed from simply Cisco Certified...

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IAITAM & APMG-International Begin Accreditation Partnership

APMG-International will begin accrediting training organizations to deliver the IAITAM Courseware effective immediately. This announcement was made today at IAITAM’s Annual Fall ACE Conference by Dr. Barbara Rembiesa, CEO of IAITAM, to the attendees. This partnership will allow wide spread adoption of the IAITAM Courseware and meet the growing demand for IT Asset Management Training. “IAITAM is very excited about making this move to allow...

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Common Linux Questions Answered

There are several questions that crop up in one’s mind when opting for a career in IT. These questions are critical to their long-term growth in the chosen profession and worth considering. Here are some questions answered for those of you who are in the midst of making a career choice. ...

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Oracle Still Hates Open Source Software

It's no wonder that Google, Red Hat and others have been abandoning Oracle's most visible open-source project, MySQL. After all, Oracle has a highly conflicted relationship with open source. Nowhere is this conflict more apparent than in a new white paper Oracle released for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) in which Oracle suggests open source costs more and is less reliable. Unfortunately for Oracle, the DOD has its own white paper on open source—several, actually—which directly contradicts Oracle's key arguments. Oracle's Love-Hate Relationship...

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9-Year-Old Nigerian Becomes World’s Youngest Microsoft Certified Professional

Nigeria has come on the global scene in the information communication technology sector, as 9-year-old Jomiloju Tunde-Oladipo joined the community of achievers when he became one of the world’s youngest 2013 certified Microsoft Office specialists for Office Word 2010. Jomiloju, a primary 6 pupil of Role Model School, owned by DayStar Christian Centre, Oregun, Ikeja Lagos, broke the record created in 2012 by 10-year-old JSS1 student, Seyi-Ojo Anjolaoluwa, who was adjudged the youngest Nigerian and one of the youngest people in the world...

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Understanding Cisco®‘s new Certification Path

Cisco® announced their new certification paths on March 25th, 2013. The CCNA is no longer a prerequisite to all other certification paths; however, the CCENT (ICND1) is now the prerequisite to most tracks. At first, the CCENT would seem to provide an inadequate foundation, but Cisco® has really up’d their technology in the CCENT area! No longer is it an easy introduction to networking with some Cisco® routing and switching. We’re talking about a serious update to the CCENT! The new CCENT exam covers the usual OSI, TCP/IP, subnetting,...

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newest and most advanced datacenter enters final commissioning. Curaçao Technology Exchange (CTEX)

Somewhere deep in the Southwest Caribbean, right in front of the Latin America coastline, the world’s newest and most advanced datacenter enters final commissioning. Curaçao Technology Exchange (CTEX), together with Schneider Electric, CISCO Systems and others for close to two years has pursued one of the most ambitious technology projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. CTEX is turning on the first of four 72,000 square feet Uptime Institute certified Tier-IV datacenter. The CTEX datacenters have already been recognized for several...

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CBT Nuggets announces the release of a new video training course

CBT Nuggets announces the release of a new video training course, “Cisco R&S Troubleshooting Mastery.” In this 20-video course, co-instructors Keith Barker and Anthony Sequeira cover the ins and outs of troubleshooting various Cisco routing and switching technologies. Some of the topics in this course include VLAN troubleshooting, solving EIGRP adjacency failures, and routing redistribution. Sequeira said demand from the IT industry...

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The Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) has projected the global Internet Protocol (IP) traffic to reach 413 million between 2012 and 2017.

The Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) has projected the global Internet Protocol (IP) traffic to reach 413 million between 2012 and 2017. Announcing the forecast recently, General Manager Cisco, in charge of Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Mr. Dare Ogunlade, said the Middle East and Africa (MEA) would continue to be the fastest growing IP traffic region from 2012 - 2017, with a 5-fold growth, at 38 per cent compound annual growth rate over the forecast period. MEA was the fastest growing region last year. According to the...

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APBN boss also asked the Federal Government to correct the imbalance in the nation’s budgeting system

The Association of Professional Bodies of Nigeria, APBN, has taken up the Federal Government on the need to reduce the escalating domestic debt of the nation which stands at $43.99billion (N6.5 trillion). Speaking during the Annual General Meeting/ Awards for Professional Excellence organised by the association in Lagos yesterday, its President, Alhaji Bawa Bala Kaoje, urged the Federal Government to reduce the swelling domestic debt considerably in order to provide succour to local contractors and consultants. Bemoaning the high local...

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Top Paying Certifications for 2013

 source Having earned an IT certification, many individuals think they are automatically entitled to a huge raise. The truth is that several factors, including geography, industry, experience, and yes, certifications, combine to play a major role in determining an individual's salary. However, certain certifications do have greater impact on the earning potential of an individual. Here, we take a look at the 15 certifications with the highest earning potential for 2013. Note: The rankings below are derived from certifications that...

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