Veteran cisco Certification Training

NterOne Corporation announced today the launch of the new NterOne - Veteran Certification Training Program to assist veterans and service members in transitioning their military skills into the Information Technology workforce. NterOne will cover half the cost of Vmware & Cisco Systems training and certification paths for recent active duty military veterans who have served within the past 36 months.

NterOne is excited to give back to our returning veterans who have sacrificed so much in the service of our county and help them achieve advanced technical training to pursue some of the best careers in the marketplace. The certifications and associated training classes are detailed below:

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) :
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage v5.5
Vmware Certified Professional (VCP-Cloud) :
VMware vCloud Director: Install, Configure , Manage v5.5

Cisco Certified Network Associate (Routing & Switching):
Option 1
ICND1:Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices, Part 1 v2.0
ICND2: Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices, Part 2 v2.0
Option 2
CCNAX: CCNA Routing and Switching Boot Camp v2.0

Cisco Certified Network Associate (Data Center):
Option 1
DCICN: Introducing Cisco Data Center Networking v1.0
DCICT: Introducing Cisco Data Center Technologies v1.0
Option 2
DCICN+DCICT: CCNA Data Center Boot Camp

Cisco Certified Network Associate (Security):
IINS: CCNA Security Boot Camp v2.0
Cisco Certified Network Associate (Voice):
ICOMM : CCNA Voice Boot Camp v8.0

"As a US Army Veteran, this is one of my proudest moments in being involved with NterOne," said Anthony Hamilton, CEO of NterOne, "The military is such a family oriented community, and it's with great pleasure and pride that we are able to give back in any way possible. Along with donating monthly to the Wounded Warrior program, NterOne will continue to work closely with the military, their families, and those who support our brave women and men around the world."

If you are a returning service member who would like to take advantage of this program please contact Dale Pedersen at Dale(at)NterOne(dot)com or call 703 972 2288 x 1006.

About NterOne Corporation

NterOne is a veteran owned global training company focusing on live online training, self-paced e-learning, and private onsite training.The company is headquartered in Reston, VA, but mainly operates virtually by allowing their employees to work out of their home office to reduce the company's overall carbon footprint. NterOne is a Cisco
Learning Partner, and a VMware Authorized Training Center, and operates their own Data Center in North Carolina. The company's key technology focus areas are Virtualization, Data Center, Routing and Switching, Voice, Collaboration, Optical, Wireless, and Security.

For more information, please visit the corporate web site at http://www.NterOne.com .

NterOne is a registered trademark of NterOne Corporation in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies.

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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, said that the centre would primarily offer entrepreneurs the prerequisite connectivity for advancement. “Apart from offering services to our customers like banks, we are targeting about 17 million SMEs who we are going to offer connectivity for a token
“The idea is that through the process, about 1.6 million of them would have migrated from the low level they are now, repackaged themselves, and can obtain loans from banks,” he said.
According to Okere, the facility has incorporated state of the art power and environmental management infrastructure providing combined 0.7MVA generating capacity coupled with redundant and modular 200 KVA uninterruptible power supply to ensure incoming main power is conditioned and available 100% of the time.
Engineer Lanre Ajayi, who is president of the Association of Telecommunication Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), said CWG had proven its competency as an indigenous company in Nigeria.
“Due to their pragmatic efforts, CWG has motivated many other local firms. The launching of this data center is a big leapfrog,” he said.
He however urged the company to incorporate other stakeholders that host the .ng domain to ensure that the expected customers make use of this all important infrastructure. Ajayi added that with such data centres in the country, the rate of capital flight, connectivity (routing) and other issues that have bedeviled the industry could be minimised.

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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 is expected to cover more than 6,000 sq m once complete, and is located at the centre of Ikeja – the capital of Lagos State - on a 20,000 sq m site.
The site is 23m above sea level and within a private estate, with eight levels of physical security to ensure “uncompromized security”.
Steve Brookman, Rack Centre’s managing director, said the “revolutionary” data center would “out Nigeria at the heart of the global growth in disaster recovery and applications development”.

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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 on ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library), which is a compilation of best practices for ITSM. TeamHeadquarters v.7 has been carefully developed to provide companies with a greater array of tools to manage projects and realize maximum benefit from ITIL.

TeamHeadquarters was originally developed as a consolidated app that includes Service Desk, Project Management, Resource Management and All-in-One Scheduling. Such a tool is essential to IT’s successful management of service and help requests, scheduling, completing project tasks effectively and allocating resources.

Various universities, colleges, school boards K–12 and private schools utilize TeamHeadquarters to streamline their IT departments while still maintaining a high level of service to students and faculty members. TeamHeadquarters also helps many healthcare companies and facilities with hundreds of daily support requests and thousands of customers to expand their capacity and reduce the number of IT work silos.

Bill Lewkowski, EVP/CIO, Metro Health Hospital, said, "It is critical that we are able to prioritize and respond in a timely manner. TeamHeadquarters has allowed me to structure my support organization by area of expertise, so my call coordinators can easily and effectively allocate tickets to the resources with the best skills and with time available. TeamHeadquarters allows my team to manage effectively their operational and project work as well. It is the one consolidated tool that our department relies on to run our business."

About Entry Software Corporation

Entry Software Corporation is a leader in providing effective work management solutions to various industries around the globe. Its product, TeamHeadquarters, is a fully integrated palette of unique solutions for IT, Product and Service Departments. TeamHeadquarters creates value through cost reduction improved operating efficiency and enhanced customer communications.

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/11/prweb11376231.htm

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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 Financial Services Software Limited today introduced new Oracle FLEXCUBE capabilities that help financial institutions to support regulatory compliance, offer richer and more personalized customer experiences, improve perfromance and streamline their IT environments.
Supporting Regulatory Compliance
With FATCA provisions set to take effect in July 2014, Oracle FLEXCUBE provides new features to help facilitate compliance and reduce risk. These features include support for due diligence for new customer onboarding and existing customers to identify United States (U.S.) individuals and U.S.-owned foreign entities.
Enhancing Customer Experience
Oracle FLEXCUBE Mobile Banking now supports contactless payments, including near field communication (NFC), quick response (QR) code support, person-to-person (P2P) and social media payments, enabling banks to offer a new level of convenience and flexibility for customers.
Oracle FLEXCUBE Direct Banking enables banks to provide more comprehensive, flexible and consistent service as well as greater customer convenience with end-to-end multi-channel, multi-step and multi-device collaborative originations capabilities for retail and corporate customers. It also provides expanded customer self-subscription and onboarding features and enables full-scale straight through processing (STP) and support for offline processing.
Corporate banking users of Oracle FLEXCUBE can now take advantage of the enhanced bulk payment capability to help streamline operational efficiency and reduce risk.
Oracle FLEXCUBE has been named a SWIFT Certified Application for Payments 2013.
The enhanced Oracle FLEXCUBE platform also integrates more easily with multiple channels, such as call centers, ATMs and kiosks to quickly and effectively enable customers to access their accounts.
Improving Operational Performance
To help financial institutions better divide and compare transactional data while managing profitablity, cost and performance, Oracle introduces Oracle FLEXCUBE Information Server.
This new capability enables users to simply and rapidly analyze products, review current profitability data and trends to better optimize business decisions and manage competitive pressures, and review standard reports and enhance accountability by monitoring branch-level performance.
Reducing IT Complexity
Oracle FLEXCUBE Development Workbench will now support R10 and R11 versions of FLEXCUBE, enabling financial institutions to transfer exisiting customizations from one FLEXCUBE release to another to help speed upgrades and help reduce cost and resource requirments.
To ease testing of upgrades, patches and fixes on Oracle FLEXCUBE, Oracle today announced the availability of Oracle FLEXCUBE Testing Workbench for Universal Banking, which enables banks to record user and branch transactions, extract subsets of production data, re-run data in test environments and receive immediate diagnostics on errors, which can substantially reduce testing efforts.
To help banks better manage production environments and data compliance, Oracle FLEXCUBE now also ships with a new archiving and purging utility.
Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking now runs on Oracle Database Appliance X3-2 to deliver mid-size banks a compelling banking-in-a-box solution. With this certification, banks can benefit from a low-IT-footprint, high-performance, full-scale banking technology that is engineered to support end-to-end business requirements.
In a recent performance test of Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking on Oracle Database Appliance X3-2, the system managed more than 2.6 million online transactions in 60 minutes.
This equated to 744 transactions per second with an average response time of 156 milliseconds for 98 percent of the transactions.
The solution completed end-of-month batch processing for 10 million customer accounts in 123 minutes during the perfromance test.
"Financial institutions are grappling with evolving customer and regulatory requirements and the need to reduce IT complexity," said Chet Kamat, CEO & Managing Director, Oracle Financial Services Software. "The latest enhancements to Oracle FLEXCUBE help banks to provide an enhanced customer experience, meet industry standards, such as FATCA regulations and SWIFT standards, as well as streamline compliance, reduce risk and minimize IT complexity."

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SNIA Qualified Storage Sales Professional

SNIA's Qualified Storage Sales Professional (SQSSP) credential is vendor neutral and is designed to validate storage concepts, terminology and basic customer need assessments. 
In direct response to firms requesting specialized training for their sales and marketing professionals, this vendor–neutral training and credential provides individuals withll the technologies in today’s complex data center. Increase the knowledge base and credibility of your sales professionals by arming them with a broad set of information about a variety of different solutions in the storage ecosystem. Demonstrate to your customers that as a field representative you can speak with authority and know–how. A SNIA credential on your business card provides just the “leg up” that tight economies and budgets now require.

Requires Passing

• SNIA Qualified Storage Sales Professional exam (S10-905).
• Click here to see detailed description of what will be covered in the exam.

Exam Specs

• 40 test items
• 90 minutes
• Cost: $100.00 USD payable via credit card on-line
• Passing score:  70%

This is an on-line non-proctored test designed for the Storage Sales Professional or those IT Sales Professionals who are entering the storage domain. The test is designed to be informative and will be updated frequently to meet the needs of the SNIA Qualified Storage Sales Professional participant.
The successful candidate will receive the use of the SQSSP logo and a certificate (pdf). Since it is a qualification test, it will not count towards the SNIA SCSN-E credential.

Please go to http://ibt.prometric.com/snia to take the test.  

Self Study Material

SNIA offers an E-Course study guide available online to give you the freedom to study at your convenience. For information on ordering an E-Course, please visit here.

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SNIA Certified Storage Architect (SCSA)

The SNIA Education Committee would like to make our education community aware that we have completed the “refresh” of two advanced level legacy versions of the Storage Networking Certification Program (SNCP) exams.
The following credentials will replace the existing credentials worldwide, effective February 2013, and we will issue a further notification when the exams are published and available.
Current certification holders will be able to refresh their credentials upon passing the new exam when it becomes available via Prometric. The current certifications will expire on January 31, 2014.
The new credentials will fall in line with industry standards and be current for a period of three years from the date of certification.
SNIA Certified Storage Engineer (SCSE) Certificate:
Storage Networking Management and Administration S10–201 (Current) Storage Networking Management and Administration S10–210 (New)
SNIA Certified Storage Architect (SCSA) Certificate:
Storage Networking Assessment Planning and Design S10–300 (Current) Storage Networking Assessment Planning and Design S10–310 (New)
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Requires Passing

• SNIA Architect – Assessment, Planning & Design exam (S10-300),
  and
• CompTIA Storage+ Powered by SNIA exam (SGO-001) - Description

Storage Architect - Assessment, Planning & Design

• 50 Questions
• Passing scored 66%
• 60 minutes in U.S. and Canada
• 90 minutes outside the U.S. and Canada

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Storage Networking Certification Program

Storage Networking Certification Program (SNCP)

 The SNIA Storage Networking Certification Program (SNCP) provides a strong foundation of vendor-neutral, systems-level credentials that integrate with and complement individual vendor certifications. The structure of the SNCP has been enhanced to reflect the advancement and growth of storage networking technologies over the past few years, and to provide for expanded offerings in the future. Through evolving and enhancing the SNCP, the SNIA is establishing a uniform standard by which individual knowledge and skill sets

Six good reasons for being SNIA certified
People often ask themselves about the real value of IT related certifications and whether it is worth their time and money to become certified. The short answer to the question is yes, an IT certification can be of great value especially if it’s in an area that you are trying to pursue as a career, and even more importantly if it is a vendor-neutral certification which complements specific product skills.

• The SNIA Storage Networking Certification Program (SNCP) provides a strong foundation of vendor-neutral, foundations-level credentials that integrate with and complement individual vendor certifications. SNIA certifications provide storage and data management practitioners with an industry recognised uniform standard by which individual knowledge and skill-sets can be judged.

Six good reasons why you should be SNIA certified:

1. Framework by which the competency levels of technical people can be judged.
   1. Hiring managers tend to view certifications as a more objective measure of a candidate’s skill level than self-reported skills and competency.
   2. Employers in the storage industry want to be able to compare prospective employees, and certifications are a way of achieving this. Having a certification from a recognised vendor is key but to have this also endorsed by the leading industry association adds huge credibility to the process. This tells the prospective employer that the knowledge acquired is both generic and specific and portrays the candidate as more versatile.
2. Provides HR departments with an insight into skill-sets and desire to improve knowledge
   1. HR departments looking to recruit will differentiate between those who have the relevant industry certifications and those who do not. They also associate certification holders as being self-starters, professionally minded, and with an aptitude and desire to improve their knowledge.
3. Achieve peer recognition amongst other IT professionals
   1. Personal networking is key to career development. Once individuals have attained IT certification, they join a group of skilled professionals who also hold similar credentials. Typically these groups are global and diverse; professionals who are keen to extend their knowledge via the sharing of ideas and information with their peers typically now join global social media platforms.  Many storage vendors invest time in creating a community of storage practitioners where the benefits to the individual may include special offers, discounts on other training,  access to beta versions and other incentives for their certified community.
4. Increased income potential
   1. Many recent studies have shown that organizations will offer a base salary premium simply on the basis that they will not have to bear the cost of certifications already obtained. The added market value that a certification brings can be as high as 30%-40%, with the average salary uplift potentially in the 5%-11% range. Skilled professionals in the storage industry are in demand everywhere and especially those that can demonstrate an advanced level of technical competence in the new breed of technologies for data management.
5. Increased employability
   1.  Globalization and economic realities have made the IT job market highly competitive. For long serving professionals – or even those just starting out –  demonstrating technical competency to a prospective employer is a must. IT certifications provide an industry-wide recognized method of doing that. Not only do the certificates provide a portfolio of the skills possessed by an individual, they also provide evidence of the mindset, determination and ambition. Certifications enhance the personal brand of an individual.
6. Winning SMB customer business
   1. As more and more small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) deploy networked storage solutions, if you are a reseller/integrator having certified technicians on the payroll can give you a competitive edge in winning business and giving the customer the reassurance they need. Customers want to know they are buying the right technology with the people who have the skills to help their business optimise their investment, and this only works if your technicians can demonstrate the right storage certifications and skills.
   2. More importantly, it will be assumed that the technical personnel will have the certifications from the vendor chosen, but having an industry backed credential adds to the customers confidence.
   3. Beyond the initial design and deployment, there is opportunity for service offerings, which also require specific evidence of skills acquired.

SNIA Certification Policies
 

SNIA Exam Security/Cheating Policy

It is the policy of SNIA to revoke or refuse a credential to any person suspected of using unauthorized materials obtained using websites that advertise exact copies of SNIA exams. Psychometric data from a person's testing session will isolate patterns of cheating and gives SNIA the right to take legal action.

SNIA Certification Pricing

The cost of High Stakes Proctored Exams is $200.00 USD.  That applies to the SNIA Storage Networking Management & Administration Exam (S10-201), and SNIA Storage Networking Design & Assessment (S10-300).  The CompTIA Storage+  Powered by SNIA exam is $264 USD. Outside the US, pricing may vary a small percentage up or down by country.  The SNIA Technology Elective Qualification Exams are $100.00 USD worldwide.

SNIA Exam Re-Take Policy

If you take a SNIA exam and do not pass it, SNIA requires that you wait 24 hours before taking it again. If you do not pass the exam a second time, you must wait seven (7) days. If a SNIA Exam is taken three (3) times without a passing score, you must wait 30 days to take it again.

SCSN-E Fulfillment Process

Once you have fulfilled the requirements for the SNIA Expert credential (SCSN-E) , you must email a .pdf copy or scan a paper copy of your SNIA Certification Partner credential to snia_certification@snia.org. It will be processed by SNIA and you will receive a .pdf of your SCSN-E certificate.

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NetApp & DataGroupIT are thrilled to invite you to our premium Technology Summit

Welcome to the BIG DATA registration

NetApp & DataGroupIT are thrilled to invite you to our premium Technology Summit.

BIG DATA 2012 in Lagos, Nigeria (formally known as “INNOVATION”) is a world-class conference and premium showcase for IT Technological Solutions, brought to you and Co-Organized by DataGroupIT and NetApp.

Now in its 5th successful year, the summit is widely recognized as the top IT event in the region and focuses on the strategic issues that enterprises and end-users in the IT environment are facing such as: Data Storage Technology, Big Data, Information Security, Virtualization and Business Continuity. If you’ve joined us in previous years - then you already know that...
If you haven’t - NOW is the time! Discover our passion and join us in driving the Nigerian market Go Further, Faster.


Who should attend?
The conference will be addressing top executives and IT professionals who wish to update their knowledge, network, share ideas and experience the biggest IT Technology Summit in the region.

Experience the world of IT with the top corporations and IT leaders in the industry.

To register to the event, please fill your details : The event closed See you in the following events More info: Contact Miss Oyoenisai Udonte for more info, email: oyoenisai@datagroupit.com Outlook Reminder

Agenda:

08:45 - 09:30	Reception and Registration Main Hall
09:30 - 09:45	Event Introduction | Start time & Welcome Address DataGroupIT
09:45 - 10:30	Intelligent, Immortal and Infinite - Managing your Future in a Big Data World NetApp more details...
10:30 - 11:00	Big Data – Practical Solutions for today Ryan Sayre | Strategic Advisor, NetApp more details...
11:00 - 11:15	FlexPod; A match made in heaven Rene Bosman | Manager, CISCO Data Center Solutions & Virtualization, Africa, CISCO
11:15 - 11:30	Mastering Big Data to Gain Valuable Insight in Real Time Oloruntoye Aderinola | Solution Manager - Business Analytics & Technology, SAP West Africa
11:30 - 11:45	Securing Data in Storage and Virtualized Environments Sébastien Pavie| Regional Sales Director, Middle-East & Africa, SafeNet more details...
11:45 - 12:00	Building a Software Defined Datacenter Grant Mufford|Regional Alliance Manager – OEM, VMWARE more details...
12:00 - 12:15	Coffee Break | Finger Food
12:15 - 13:15	Break Out Sessions 1st Floor (choose one upon registration) Build your cloud with FlexPod and CISCO Intelligent Automation Ayman Hamed | Consulting Systems Engineer Sales, CISCO, Classroom A2 Moving from Information Liability to Information Embassy Oloruntoye Aderinola | Solution Manager – Business Analytics & Technology, SAP West Africa, Classroom B2 more details... Protect your Storage & VMs – Key Management Sébastien Pavie | Regional Sales Director, Middle-East & Africa, SafeNet, Classroom C2 more details...
13:15 - 14:15	Break 2 | Lunch Upper floor main hall
14:15 - 14:35	Customer Success Story | City Business Computers ,EMEA
14:35 - 15:00	Closing Speech “Key Note” Speaker
15:00 - 15:30	Raffle & Give Away Distribution

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OVERVIEW OF IBM AIX EXAMS

IBM Certified System Administrator - AIX 7

Job Role Description / Target Audience

The successful candidate has at least 2 years experience administering AIX in a variety of environments, including virtualized systems, small business and enterprise-class data centers.  The AIX 7 administrator has strong networking and device management skills.  Additionally, the AIX administrator leads and mentors less experienced administrators and operators in their daily tasks.  

Recommended Prerequisite Skills

The qualified candidate is expected to have skills in the following areas:

• Configure and manage networking in AIX 
• Manage and configure VIO client partitions
• Manage devices
• Manage storage
• Use HMC and SDMC to manage system resources
• Perform user administration tasks (such as limiting resources, creating/using groups, etc). 
• Have strong knowledge of system backup and recovery
• Have strong and AIX installation and maintenance skills
• Configuring and managing system security
• Use NIM, WPAR Manager and Systems Director (base product)
• Understand PowerVM components such as AME, AMS, Shared Processor Pools, etc.

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The Certification for the Right Job

What makes these credentials evergreen and valuable? The answer varies by category and by perceived demand and cachet.

At the lowest level, the CompTIA "holy trio" (A+, Network+ and Security+) have long constituted a basic set of checkbox items for entry-level IT workers, and are universally taught at technical schools, community colleges, and job training programs.

The Cisco CCNA is the stepping stone to the company's intermediate level/professional (and specialist) credentials. Likewise, the MCSA is an important entry point into Microsoft's popular certifications and acts as a lead-up to higher levels.

At the intermediate level, Cisco and Microsoft continue to attract major mindshare. But this is where other key platforms and technologies — most notably, VMware for virtualization and Oracle for database development and administration — have started to stake out some space. The Project Management Professional credential teaches IT professionals how to plan, budget, manage and control projects, and has become a go-to "soft skills" certification that can help midcareer pros garner accolades.

Finally, at the advanced level, the Cisco CCIE remains the prototype evergreen IT cert: popular and highly sought after for more than a decade now, despite a difficult, expensive and demanding lab exam. (It costs $1,500 and requires travel to one of only six authorized testing centers.)

The CISSP is an information security certification without peer. The Oracle and Microsoft master level credentials are scarce, but also document valuable skills for IT workers in specific technical areas including messaging, database, directory services and more. And with the explosion of computing into the virtualized cloud, VMware's pinnacle expert-level credential is in high demand.

Obtaining and keeping credentials current is essential to all IT pros serious about their career. The evergreen certifications outlined here are great places to start.
Category 1: Entry Level

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

    CompTIA A+
    CompTIA Network+
    CompTIA Security+
    Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA)

 Category 2: Intermediate

    Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
    Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE)
    Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)
    VMware Certified Professional Datacenter Virtualization (VCP5-DCV)
    Project Management Professional (PMP)

 Category 3: Advanced

    Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
    Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
    Microsoft Certified Master (MCM)
    Oracle Certified Master (OCM)
    VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX5-DCV)

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Oracle Launches New Oracle Database 12c Administrator Certifications

Today Oracle University announces the release of new Oracle Database 12c Administrator certifications. The new Oracle Database 12c certifications emphasize the foundational and advanced skills needed by Database Administrators and will prepare DBAs to leverage powerful new management and consolidation capabilities, resulting in an even more valuable credential for customers and partners.
ORACLE CERTIFIED ASSOCIATE (OCA)
The Oracle Certified Associate (OCA) for Oracle Database 12c objectives measure IT professionals' mastery of day-to-day administration skills and their ability to manage the challenges they're likely to encounter on the job. This credential focuses on SQL skills, operational administration of the Oracle Database including performance and space management, and installing, patching and upgrading the Oracle Database.

Earning the OCA credential requires successful completion of two exams: 1Z0-061 - Oracle Database 12c: SQL Fundamentals and 1Z0-062 - Oracle Database 12c: Installation and Administration. The OCA certification track also allows for several alternate exams which can be substituted for 1Z0-061.
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Pro Oracle Database 12c Administration

ORACLE CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL (OCP)
Building on the competencies in the Oracle Database 12c OCA certification, the Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) for Oracle Database 12c certification includes advanced knowledge and skills required of top-performing database administrators. The OCP credential focuses on developing and implementing backup and recovery strategies, designing consolidation strategies to exploit multitenant container and pluggable databases, and thorough understanding how CDB/PDBs fit into the DBaaS cloud-computing model.

Today, Oracle is releasing 1Z0-060 - Upgrade to Oracle Database 12c, which allows Oracle Certified Professionals with credentials in Oracle 9i, Oracle Database 10g or Oracle Database 11g to upgrade to Oracle Database 12c with a single exam. The upgrade exam focuses on designing consolidation strategies to exploit multitenant container and pluggable databases, implementing Oracle 12c feature-rich ILM support, optimizing SQL execution using dynamic swapping of sub plans, implementing real-time data redaction within databases, as well as exploiting many additional performance, backup and recovery, security and partitioning enhancements. The exam also includes a thorough review of core DBA skills.

Visit the OCP certification track for more details on the new upgrade exam as well as alternate certification paths.

ORACLE CERTIFIED MASTER (OCM)
The Oracle Certified Master (OCM) for Oracle Database 12c - a very challenging and elite top-level certification - certifies the most highly skilled and experienced database experts. Further information on the 12c OCM level will be announced as exam development concludes.

To date, there have been more than 1.6 million Oracle certifications granted worldwide. Explore these certification tracks, exam requirements and objectives, and start toward earning your exciting new Oracle Database 12c certification credentials from Oracle.

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Glo Datacenter Facility

National Telecoms Operator, Globacom has set up a world-class Internet Data Centre in Lagos to provide co-location services, disaster recovery and dedicated hosting facilities to corporate clients in Nigeria and West Africa.
The company has also announced plans to expand its existing data management platform by building another data centre  that will be Nigeria’s Largest Iconic Data Center, providing Tier 3  and Tier 4 enterprise data services from Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory.
The new data centre will provide network-based services, applications, equipment and Cloud Services in a highly safe and secure environment with back-ups.
According to Globacom’s Corporate Chief Information Officer (Information Systems), Mr. Cesar Camara, most of the websites and servers of various Nigerian organisations are hosted elsewhere across the world in countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States of America due to unreliable power supply, insecurity and other challenges.
“This is why Globacom has stepped in to become one of the top players in the Managed Services Industry across Nigeria & West Africa. We are leveraging  on our existing telecoms infrastructure, Glo1 Submarine cable, reliable power supply network, experienced manpower and experience in building State-of-the-art technologies for our existing voice and data telephony  services,” he told journalists while conducting them round the Glo Data Centre in Lagos. .
Data Centres, especially the Tier 3 and Tier 4 categories, which provide the highest level of failure proof, redundant, secure and safe environment, fault tolerance, compartmentalization and continuous cooling, are highly valued by most organizations because all mission-critical/real-time applications today depend on server uptime

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Providers find value in vendor-specific cloud certifications

When it comes to ensuring the integrity of cloud services, third-party groups have attempted to improve consumer confidence with various certifications for service providers. And while other organizations independently validate providers' promises of secure data and consistent protection, some cloud providers are going even further by certifying their technical expertise as well.
Serving as more than just a validation of the baseline security of a provider's cloud services environment, vendor-specific certification programs enable providers to distinguish their services with an endorsement of their expertise. Whether it's a partnership with Citrix, a silver competency from Microsoft or a certification from Red Hat, a vendor's seal of approval is designed to indicate a cloud provider offers reliable services and support.
"The vendor-specific certifications are extremely important," says Charles Weaver, CEO of the MSPAlliance, an industry association and accrediting body for cloud providers and managed service providers (MSPs). His organization focuses on certifying providers with its vendor-neutral credentials, including MSPAlliance's Unified Certification Standard, to assess such facets as a provider's physical security, data privacy and service-level agreements. But Weaver believes that vendors' certifications offer something distinct.
"They provide visibility perhaps better than any other type of certification could about the provider's capabilities and expertise in that technology," he says.

Cloud providers see benefits of vendor certifications

For Datapipe, a cloud provider and MSP in Jersey City, N.J., a vendor's certification represents a confirmation of its capabilities that can boost user confidence and improve the company's visibility.

I am sure that [our Microsoft certifications] helped us and helped when talking to new potential customers. Tudor Ciuleanu, Imprezzio Global

Ed Laczynski, Datapipe's senior vice president of cloud services, says the provider has obtained certifications from VMware, Citrix, Microsoft and Oracle, among others.
"They're all important to us," he says. "We pursue them because we have a very unique value proposition, where we are supporting customers in heterogeneous hybrid IT environments, everything from cloud to managed services to colocation and security. … We find that when we partner with the vendors that our customers are using and that we use to deliver [services], that we drive a lot of value to our customers, we grow our business and we get more exposure in the marketplace."
This kind of exposure was a major driver for Imprezzio Global, a European subsidiary of the Spokane, Wash., software development company Imprezzio Inc., with offerings that include Software as a Service and cloud-based applications for the enterprise. Earning silver competencies from Microsoft meant a place in the vendor's Pinpoint partner directory, which Imprezzio's Managing Director Tudor Ciuleanu explains was one of the most important factors in the move to get certified.
"I am sure that it helped us and helped when talking to new potential customers," he says. "This is an advantage since they trust our company more. We also had a few companies contacting us from Pinpoint."
Earning those Microsoft certifications also provided Imprezzio access to internal use licenses, press materials, discounts, product support and advisory services. The perks get better for providers in the upper tiers of certification -- silver and gold, in the case of Microsoft's classifications.
Imprezzio's three silver competencies -- which it expects to upgrade to gold soon for more visibility among Microsoft partners -- certify its status as a midmarket solution provider with expertise in application development and Microsoft SQL. Achieving those credentials required that members of the Imprezzio team get individually certified and that the company pass licensing overview as well as sales and marketing assessments. Testimonials from customers and the payment of a membership fee round out the list of requirements.
Microsoft's certification criteria have much in common with other vendors' programs, including the standards for membership in the three-tiered partnership program Red Hat offers. Marketing tools, community involvement and technological support come at the basic Ready partner level and expand for providers certified as Advanced, with the full suite of perks available at the Premier level.
Depending on the partner status they seek, providers looking to receive the benefits must have a minimum number of trained people in sales and IT, an approved business plan and positive customer feedback, among other achievements.

Vendor certification programs rigorous for a reason

Jane Circle, Red Hat's principal product marketing manager, says the technical baselines are the most rigorous: "We must ensure that they can actually produce a Red Hat Enterprise Linux image the same as if a customer were to buy Red Hat Enterprise Linux directly from Red Hat."
Red Hat is among the vendors continuously looking to expand its network of certified partners, adding new partners every month in an effort to further its own visibility and sales. Maintaining rigorous technical, business and operational baselines may limit the number of partners, but Circle points out that ensuring the security and quality of their services is a crucial priority.

The whole idea of a certification program is to provide consistency to our end customers at large. Jane Circle, principal product marketing manager, Red Hat

"The point is that when we work with our cloud providers, we want our end customers to have a service level that is pretty much in agreement with what they would get from Red Hat," she says. "The whole idea of a certification program is to provide consistency to our end customers at large."
Vendors have to hold potential partners to high standards or risk having a glut of overcertified, underqualified providers representing their brand.
"We are in talks with a lot of vendors who, in their channel recruitment programs, are facing great difficulty in finding qualified service providers who understand not only how to use the technology, but [also] how to be a good service provider," Weaver says. "And they've said, 'Look, we need a way to identify good, qualified service providers before we let them into our programs,' because for the vendor it's a great risk. It's a lot of resources that they're going to put in, and they want to make sure they're only working with the best and most qualified."
But the rigid requirements protect certified providers as well. And for uncertified providers already meeting the vendor's standards, getting the additional the stamp of approval is a valuable and visible recognition of their skill in terms that enterprise users in particular find relatable and credible.
Datapipe's Laczynski says certification programs are important to IT buyers.
"[Certifications] help us talk about our value proposition and allow us to show -- in the same language that [enterprise customers] use, in terms of the specific locations and infrastructure they're using -- how we add value," he explains.

Vendor certifications fit into a broader framework of evaluation

The sales requirements for many certification programs aren't usually an issue for Datapipe, as it has often met those goals already as part of its own business strategy.

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"We have a really reliable and loyal customer base, so typically we've already qualified for all the revenue targets or use targets that these various vendors have," Laczynski says.
Considering their potential to undermine the neutrality of the certification process, these sales qualifications cause some concern for Weaver. Nevertheless, he believes "they've largely gone away."
Another potential challenge is that vendor certifications only go so far, Weaver says. These programs may validate a provider's mastery of a particular technology, but they don't necessarily guarantee a provider's "larger duty of protecting data for the client," he explains.
"As good as [vendor-specific certifications] are, they have a precise purpose, and they shouldn't be viewed as simply an excuse not to get any other certifications," Weaver says. "A truly independent audit is needed because there are things that have nothing to do with technical expertise that greatly impact the service provider's capability to deliver their services."

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Cloud Security Alliance on the new cissp certification

 

(ISC)2 and the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) have signed an agreement to collaborate on a new professional certification for information security.


The combined initiative will address a concern over the security of modern business systems by establishing a global understanding of professional knowledge and best practices in the design, implementation and management of cloud computing systems.

The new credential will build on existing certifications offered by both organizations, including (ISC)2’s Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and CSA’s Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK), by examining the depth of technical knowledge required in architecting business systems, based on cloud computing.

“As organizations continue to adopt cloud computing at a rapid pace, there is a strong need to provide a body of knowledge that encompasses the evolving technology and risk landscape and that validates the skills of the professionals tasked with protecting those businesses,” says W. Hord Tipton, CISSP-ISSEP, CAP, CISA, executive director for (ISC)2. “Our combined effort ensures the world’s knowledge leaders are put to the task.”

“(ISC)2 and CSA have each recognized that the global economy’s reliance on cloud services has advanced extremely quickly. Businesses are moving vast amounts of data into the cloud, and consumers are gobbling up new, usually mobile services that emerge on a daily basis. It is incumbent upon us to make our collective experience as accessible as possible, and the further development of professional–level recognition is key to achieving this,” says Jim Reavis, co-founder and executive director of the Cloud Security Alliance.

The (ISC)2 2013 Global Information Security Workforce Study (GISWS) confirmed cloud computing as the number one area of demand for training, identified by nearly 60 percent of the study’s more than 12,000 respondents.

The study, which has tracked the impact of cloud computing on the information security profession since 2010, also confirms that business are embracing the cloud, with virtually all respondents saying they work in companies with some level of cloud computing, and most (61 percent) identifying public cloud services, including software or infrastructure as a service or a hybrid cloud environment. This is despite nearly three quarters also confirming the need for new skills, particularly for deep technical knowledge and guidance on how security applies to the cloud.

“The Information security community remains concerned about the proliferation of cloud computing because it is making its way into the mainstream without the associated risks being well understood. Establishing professional norms will ensure the required knowledge and decision-making skills are proliferated,” says John Colley, CISSP, managing director EMEA, (ISC)2.

The initiative pools significant expertise from both organisations, including the CSA’s body of research, developed by subject matter experts, and its contributions toward the development of an ISO standard; and (ISC)2’s member-driven job task analysis methodology for the development and management of the world’s leading information and software security professional credentials.

Under the collaboration, (ISC)2 will lead subject matter experts drawn from the memberships of both organisations through the job task analysis process to develop a focused common body of knowledge reflecting areas of required expertise and the technology-agnostic approach to defining domains of practice that serve as the foundation of all (ISC)2 certifications. The work will also determine a globally accepted benchmark for the level of experience required to denote competency in the field of practice covered by the common body of knowledge.

The new credential and first examinations are due to be available in 2014.

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BEST CERTIFICATION - Cisco Certified Network Professional

Cisco Certification is a very popular and beneficial certification track. Ranging from entry level training to expert levels, Cisco Certification is diverse and useful in the technology world. Many companies like to have guarantees that employees that they hire are trained and experienced, and Cisco Certification is one way to prove that. One of the more advanced levels of certification is the Professional level, which include courses such as CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional) and CCVP (Cisco Certified Voice Professional).

CCNP training is very useful for IT workers looking to gain more training and more advanced work. One step further along the training track than the CCNA ? the Associates level certification, CCNP certification can provide individuals with better employment opportunities. What distinguishes the CCNP from the CCNA is the ability to install and configure larger networks, generally between 100 and 500 nodes, but sometimes even larger. Also, a CCNP certificate holder will be familiar with Quality of Service (QoS), Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and broadband technology.

Larger companies require IT professionals that have at least CCNP certification. These companies rely on their workers to have networks installed and maintained during the workweek so productivity is at a maximum. That is why employers covet fully-trained employees

What Do You Require to Be CCNP Certified

Cisco certified network professional certification, more commonly known as CCNP Certification authenticates a network professional's technical expertise for the installation, configuration and troubleshooting of centralized local and wide area networks having nodes in excess of 500. The networking professionals who are able to achieve CCNP certification illustrate the expertise and knowledge needed to manage and administer the switches and routers which form the crux of any network. Also, they attain the mastery on applications by the help of which voice, security and wireless networks are integrated.

In simpler terms, the CCNP establishes a person's achievement which enhances his professional credibility by maintaining high standards of technical mastery. This certification is mainly implied for big organization where knowledge of dealing with large networks is required.

Various websites offer very good resources to refer for the preparation of this certification. Cisco site is very useful and one must consult it for the accurate information about the certification. Also it has a huge information database related to the concepts in Cisco press CCNP. Practice tests are one of the other ways to prepare for this certification as it help in creating a simulated environment similar to the test environment, which in turn improves your chances of clearing the CCNP certification.

Preparation of CCNP certification needs the right approach of studying, coupled with good certification guides and practice exams. These certification guides and practice exams are specifically designed to meet the requirements from the perspective of CCNP curriculum. Highly experienced network experts and authors are employed for the production of these guides.

The Cisco CCNP 642-642 certification is valid for 3 years, after than you can write the composite exam or CCIE exam to maintain the same level. Gaining the CCNP certification is most helpful in your career. It is the best way to avoid the difficulty while preparing for CCNP certification exam. Understand the comments and it will help to move to a higher level of getting knowledge about the routers, switches, and protocols work. While using the IOS for configuring, do not miss any vital options. And the IOS will show you the subnets in those options. The CCNP program mostly focuses on the data transmission. The CCNP certification is a very major part of networking industry. It helps to make large networks which are interconnected to the networking technologies. CCNP 642-642 certification allows you to get a great career in your life.

A CCNP certification is apt for those who boast of at least a years networking experience and want to notch up their skills and expand their work horizon by working on advanced network solutions independently. Those who acquire CCNP certification will have shown their skills that are are crucial to roles in enterprises like that of a support engineer, network technician, network engineer or systems engineer.

A CCNP certification is highly valued and recognized by most reputed IT employers. It gives an IT professional an additional edge over the other non CCNP certified individuals.

It isnt easy to pass a CCNP certification; it requires a lot of hard work and thorough understanding of every concept. Mere mugging up of concepts won?t get you through all the exams. The fact that this exam is so tough to crack, adds to its value and credibility. An IT employer can take it for granted that a CCNP professional is an expert at networking and troubleshooting skills and has immense knowledge about related specialized fields.

How can you conquer the CCNP exam? 

Of course, to do this you should first pass CCNA. After doing so, you can now undergo the required trainings. When you study, do not cram because Cisco is not like any high school subject that you can just learn overnight. Learning to become a CCNP can be stressful. This is why taking appropriate rest is vital especially before the exam day. Relaxation is the key to handle all the binary and hex conversion, subnetting, analysis of network diagrams, and troubleshooting. You should also understand that grabbing and memorizing CCNP exam coursework and material is a tough job. The rate and power competes that of the CCNA training, which is why setting up for acquiring new information and new costs is important.

The CCNP Routing test contains about 0 questions to be completed in about 75 Minutes. However, understand that your test may vary.
Many questions on the exam have answer choices that at first glance look identical?especially the syntax questions! Remember to read through the choices carefully because ?close doesn?t cut it.? If you put commands in the wrong order or forget one measly character, you?ll get the question wrong. So, to practice, do the hands-on exercises at the end of the chapters over and over again until they feel natural to you.
Unlike Microsoft or Novel) tests, the exam has answer choices that are really similar in syntax?although some syntax is dead wrong, it is usually just subtly wrong. Some other syntax choices may be right, but they?re shown in the wrong order. Cisco does split hairs, and it is not at all averse to giving you classic trick questions.

Ccnp  tips for exam success:

 Arrive early at the exam center, so you can relax and review your study materials.

 Read the questions carefully. Don?t just jump to conclus½ns. Make sure that you?re clear about exactly what eAch question asks.

Dontt leave any questions unanswered. They count against you.

When answering multiple-choice questions that you?re not sure about, use a process of elimination to get rid of the obviously incorrect answers first. Doing this greatly improves your odds if you need to make an educated guess.

As of this writing, the exams still allow you to move forward and backward. However, it is best to always check the Cisco Web site before taking any exam to get the most up-to-date information.

After you complete an exam, you?ll get immediate, online notification of your pass or fail status, a printed Examination Score Report that indicates your pass or fail status, and your exam results by section. (The test administrator will give you the printed score report.) Test scores are automatically forwarded to Cisco within five working days after you take the test, so you don?t need to send your score to them. If you pass the exam, you?ll receive confirmation from Cisco, typically within two to four weeks.

Exam cost. ccnp cost 38000 naira or 299 dollar

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Top Vendors Into Data CenterTraining and Certification

After spending some time searching allover for data centers in Nigeria. i came across this two lagosdatacenter.com and ibraodbased.com but that not the purpose of this write up so what am I up to here

Just a quick  list of top vendors into data center training and certification

1. Cisco

It's time to trade-in your sheepskin for a practical education -- and a paycheck. Learn which certs will give you the best return on your investment.

Cisco offers more than routers, load balancers and switches; it also has an extensive education program covering its famous Cisco operating system (IOS) and data center technologies. Its bent is toward the networking side of the house, but, once earned, you can proudly display your Cisco certifications next to your college diploma. Especially intriguing is the Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Design Specialist track that requires a VMware certification as a prerequisite.

2. HP

HP is a long-time training vendor, and it has expanded its portfolio to include all facets of data center operations, data center management, applications, technology infrastructure and facilities. A few months spent in an HP data center technology training program will likely have you earning more than any of your college fraternity brothers. Prepare for full immersion in HP technology, but your education will easily transfer to other product lines.

3. Marist College

Marist College's Institute for Data Center Professionals is 100-percent online, up-to-date and relevant to learning current dynamic data center requirements. Its data center training faculty consists of industry professionals who offer a broad view of the practical and contemporary problems and solutions that face data center managers and staff. Founded in 2004, Marist's Institute for Data Center Professionals has backing from the National Science Foundation.

4. Data Center University

Data Center University comes to you from the people who bring you uninterruptible power from the desktop to the data center, American Power Conversion (APC). It delivers an extreme list of courses pulled directly from the daily operations manual, if one exists, of real data centers. The power distribution and power requirements courses are of particular interest in these days of ever-shrinking resources.

5. Data Center Tech Media (DCTM)

Better known in the data center trenches of the Pacific Rim, DCTM offers one of the world's better known data center certifications: The Certified Data Centre Design Professional -- CDCDP. Those who want to manage or assist in data center management from a design and operations perspective will attend courses in power, cooling, efficiency, management and Design.

6. PTS Data Center Solutions

Who better to offer training than the people who build and maintain data centers? Design, training and consulting from the guys who know the business from the slab to the light fixtures. They offer onsite specialized and custom training. You can add in a one-day data center assessment for a mere $5,000.

7. Red Hat

Yes, it's that Red Hat, the Linux people offering the Red Hat Certified Datacenter Specialist training. You must hold the Red Had Certified Engineer (RHCE) credential before you can enroll. The program covers Red Hat's virtualization solutions, storage and directory services.

8. EMC

In EMC's courses you learn about storage, virtualization and architecture all based on EMC's technologies. No surprise there. It might surprise you to know, however, that every data center in the world uses EMC's products. They might use VMware, a SAN, EMC's other software and hardware solutions or a combination but as an EMC Proven Professional, you'll walk into any data center with the right knowledge to manage those systems from day one. EMC offers certifications for all levels from System Administrator to Architect.

9. NetApp

NetApp University provides certification courses on its specific products and solutions. The value of any vendor certification depends on the popularity of its product. Where haven't you seen NetApp products? You see them in small businesses up to the largest enterprises. NetApp solutions are here to stay, and the certifications are worth their weight in real paychecks. 

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