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“As the founder of OpenStack, Rackspace recognises the need for comprehensive educational courses and delivery models and is fundamentally revolutionising OpenStack training to include a Certified Training Partner Programme and on demand e-learning course,” said Tony Campbell, director of training and certification for OpenStack. “We are thrilled with the momentum that the Rackspace Training for OpenStack Programme has had over the past year, and we are proud to expand the scope of the programme and provide individuals with the necessary skills to secure OpenStack related jobs.”
On Demand E-learning, OpenStack Fundamentals Course
Customers will soon have the flexibility to learn how to use and deploy an OpenStack-powered cloud in a self-paced environment with the new on demand e-learning version of the Rackspace Training for OpenStack course, OpenStack Fundamentals. This new offer is now open for pre-registration and will be generally available to the public in October. Once generally available, the course can be accessed at any time online and offers students the convenience of taking OpenStack Fundamentals at their own pace.
Additional Classroom-based Courses
To enhance the industry’s most comprehensive OpenStack training curriculum, Rackspace is adding four new classroom-based training courses to its current training offering which includes the OpenStack certification programme as well as the private and public training classes. The new courses include:
· OpenStack Networking - Neutron – Students learn how to use Neutron to provide a virtual Networking-as-a-Service between interface devices and allows the student to utilise an API to build and configure networking infrastructure
· Building Cloudy Apps – Students learn how to build applications that are “cloud aware,” using Python to explore the concept of horizontal scaling, advantages of APIs and the skills needed to benefit a DevOps organisation
· Security in the Cloud – Students learn how to develop and apply security safeguards to each virtual layer of an OpenStack environment
· Hadoop on OpenStack - Introduces students to the big data processing platform, Apache Hadoop, its components and deployments in an OpenStack cloud
The expansion of the program is fuelled by the rapid growth of OpenStack in the technology market. The BSA Global Cloud Scorecard 2013 predicts an estimated 14 million cloud jobs will be created by 2015. At its 3-year anniversary mark in July 2013, OpenStack had more than 10,000 contributors; greater than 1,000 code authors; more than one million lines of code and was utilised by more than 200 companies in 120 countries.
Training Partner Programme
Rackspace established a training partner programme using certified partners New Horizons Computer Learning Centres, Skyline Advanced Technology Services and Intelligent Cloud Technologies (ICT) to assist in meeting the increasing demand for its OpenStack Fundamentals training course. These new certified training partners include:
· New Horizons - The world’s largest independent IT training company, with more than 300 locations in 70 countries.
· Skyline Advanced Technology Services - A leading provider of training, professional services and hardware for all Cisco systems’ products.
· Intelligent Cloud Technologies (ICT) – A cloud IT brand in China implementing the latest cloud-based technologies, performing various R&D and delivering IT technical training.
