google.com, pub-6370463716499017, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0 AlfaBloggers Best Bloggers Team Of Asia : Amazon Launches Cloud Computing Certification Program

Wednesday 1 May 2013

Amazon Launches Cloud Computing Certification Program





Recognizing the importance of cloud computing on its business, Amazon Web Services (a subsidiary of Amazon.com) announced on April 30 the launch of a new AWS Certification Program.  With the accelerating use of cloud computing worldwide, Amazon is looking to provide to organizations with candidates and consultants with demonstrated knowledge of AWS best practices.

On Tuesday, the company announced that “the new AWS Certification Program helps to fill [a] need to recognize IT professionals that possess the skills and technical knowledge necessary for building and maintaining applications and services on the AWS Cloud”.

To earn an AWS Certification, individuals must demonstrate their proficiency by passing an exam.  Candidates are expected to attend courses through AWS Training to help gain proficiency with AWS services.  It’s unclear what the associated costs will be to obtain the certification.  The exams will be administered through testing centers in more than 100 countries and 750 testing locations.





Later this year, Amazon plans to roll out similar certifications such as the Systems Operations (SysOps) Administrators and Developers.

“We have many mission critical programs running on the AWS Cloud across our various business groups at Samsung, so training with AWS has been a priority for the whole company for some time,” said Seok Kyun Choi, Head of Training Division at Samsung SDS, which provides IT infrastructure services for big corporate clients.

One major concern for businesses is security and data integrity of cloud-related hardware and communications protocol.  Vulnerabilities exist.  Worse, some IT departments may be unaware if and when company data or proprietary communication has been compromised.













Amazon Launches Cloud Computing Certification Program
Technorati
Recognizing the importance of cloud computing on its business, Amazon Web Services (a subsidiary of Amazon.com) announced on April 30 the launch of a new AWS Certification Program. With the accelerating use of cloud computing worldwide, Amazon is ...
See all stories on this topic »

Technorati
How cloud computing can lower your costs and increase your security
Smart Business Network
Cloud computing may invoke images of an abstract technological force floating in the atmosphere, but the term itself is misleading. The term originated because on technical diagrams, a cloud was drawn around any mixture of resources that made a ...
See all stories on this topic »

Smart Business Network
Cloud Star Corp Receives $350000 of Funding From Investor
Sacramento Bee
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., May 1, 2013 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Cloud Star Corp (OTCBB: CLDS) a Nevada corporation specializing in security technology for cloud computing, today announced to date it has received $350,000 of a $500,000 investment ...
See all stories on this topic »
Powering Up the Cloud
New York Times (blog)
His co-founders at Arista include David Cheriton, a Stanford Computer Science professor who founded two other companies with Mr. Bechtolsheim, and has long dreamed of building a very-large-scale operating system for cloud computing. The company's ...
See all stories on this topic »
Global Interoperability Consortium's Cloud Computing Project Detailed at NATO ...
Sacramento Bee
Vollmecke said the use of a cloud computing environment will improve the ability to quickly share critical information between nations and non-governmental organizations. He described the Cloud Concept and Demonstration project that NCOIC is working on ...
See all stories on this topic »
Past, Present And Future: Cloud Computing In Three Minutes
CloudTweaks News
Looking at the roots of the cloud computing movement, it all really started in the late '90s when companies with a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business model started surfacing. Perhaps the most well known pioneer is Salesforce.com, the first billion ...
See all stories on this topic »
How cloud is reinventing the IT department
Computerworld Australia
In Australia, public cloud has already found some outspoken proponents among large enterprises, including Commonwealth Bank CIO Michael Harte. Harte told a cloud computing event late last year that the bank had already saved "tens of millions of ...
See all stories on this topic »

Computerworld Australia
Five Questions Boards of Directors Need to Ask About Cloud Governance
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. — The many benefits of cloud computing include helping enterprises become more efficient, agile, innovative and flexible, but achieving those benefits depends on a number of factors, including the involvement of the board of ...
See all stories on this topic »
Why the cloud will never (entirely) replace in-house applications
ZDNet
Cloud computing, with its promise of cheap, easy access to enterprise-class applications via the internet, is a seductive concept for many cash-strapped organisations as it seems to offer state-of-the-art infrastructure without the need for epic IT ...
See all stories on this topic »

ZDNet
Benchmarking Amazon EC2: The wacky world of cloud performance
InfoWorld
Before turning to the world of cloud computing, let's pause to remember the crazy days of the 1970s when the science of the assembly line wasn't well-understood and consumers discovered that each purchase was something of a gamble. This was perhaps ...
See all stories on this topic »

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.