Linux Professional Institute to Change Linux Certification Programs

The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), a Linux certification organization, is making changes to its LPIC-2 and LPIC-3 certification programs..

Thursday, 31 October 2013

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...

Monday, 28 October 2013

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...

Monday, 21 October 2013

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...

Friday, 18 October 2013

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? ...

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...

Wednesday, 16 October 2013

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...

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...

Tuesday, 15 October 2013

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

Monday, 14 October 2013

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,...