Avastu Blog: Sustainable Global Clouds

MomentumSI is giving one-day training on CC to Business and IT professionals. I sincerely hope for them that Richard Stallman and Larry Ellison aren't sitting in that course ;-) The course introduces cloud computing concepts across a three-layered stack; software, platforms and infrastructure. Benefits, obstacles and examples are presented at each layer. Adoption patterns, investments and expected returns are also covered in the one day class. "The cloud computing class was developed for some of our larger clients based on strategic IT initiatives under development, but is completely applicable to organizations of any size that may be considering cloud computing options." said Jeff Schneider, CEO of MomentumSI. "Our courseware is designed to quickly assist the client in the determination, motivation and next steps required to deploy a successful cloud computing pilot." Thousands of Managers, Architects, Developers and Analysts have attended MomentumSI's comp...

This might be pretty handy: We at govirtual.org are devoted to facilitating research and instruction on virtualization related topics by enabling the sharing of ideas, results, materials, and tools among members of the community . Our goal is to be the comprehensive resource and knowledge base you can count on to find the latest research and interact with the leading researchers in the field. This goal can only be achieved with your participation. We hope you will share your courseware , tools , and papers and that you'll participate in discussions . go to the site here

Speaking to Computer Weekly earlier today at the VM08 show at Earls Court, Zane Adam, senior director at Microsoft responsible for virtualisation, said, "For virtualisation to become mainstream we need to train IT people in the best practices for managing both virtual and physical systems." He expected the training programme, which is being made available as Microsoft certified training courses, over the next 60 days, will help IT directors manage complex datacentres. The training programme is part of Microsoft's Dynamic IT strategy, which stipulates the use of virtualisation in the datacentre to enable IT managers to adapt and scale the performance of datacentre applications, based on the demands of the business. If the business needs more computing power, such as to support a boost in traffic on the company's website, virtualisation can be used to provision extra servers automatically. ADVERTISEMENT Adam predicted IT departments would begin hiring datacentre staff w...

NX Inc. (Nasdaq:INXI) today announced the release of "Deploying the VMware Infrastructure” at VM World 2008. With the recent acquisition of the California based AccessFlow in June, INX has made an aggressive move into the data center virtualization space by acquiring some of the most expert minds in the business. Those minds belong to Steve Kaplan and Gary Lamb, INX’s VP of Datacenter Virtualization and Senior Director of Data Center Virtualization Practice, respectively. Steve and Gary have collaboratively written a book titled "Deploying the VMware Infrastructure” and will be releasing the book at this year’s VMware World trade show, September 15 through the 18th in Las Vegas. The book is being published by USENIX Association and will be sold at VMWorld through their bookstore and can be preordered at digitalguru.com . Source

NEW DELHI: Learning solutions provider Aptech Ltd said on Thursday it had entered into a strategic tie-up with Italian training firm Seven Rings International to impart soft skills and corporate computing skill development among graduates. Under the agreement, Aptech will be the exclusive training delivery partner in India for Seven Rings, which offers self development and professional empowerment courses. "Organisations today are looking at recruiting people, who besides having the requisite technical skills, have the necessary soft skills to adapt to their work culture. Under this agreement, Aptech will share its expertise in corporate computing and soft skills development," said its chief executive and managing director Pramod Khera. Source

And take a training before you do the standardization. Workshop program: DAY 1: Cloud Language : The Taxonomy of On-Demand Computing Clouds. Grids. PaaS. There are dozens of names to describe on-demand computing, and lots of confusion. This block brings some order to the chaos, offering a comparison of different on-demand computing models including hardware-as-a-service, custom platforms, and large-scale compute infrastructures.. Cloud SLAs How reliable is the cloud? Enterprises demand predictable service levels, reliable delivery, and committed availability. This block will look at what level of service we should demand - and can expect - from cloud computing infrastructure, as well as tools and best practices for measuring it. Running Clouds: What the Big Guys Know A very small number of companies generate the vast majority of today's web pages, from Facebook applications to hosted sites. With compelling economics, they may be running most of the world's computing in a sh...

New to the education offerings are Live Online and Flex Online courses, available for the “VMware Infrastructure 3: Install and Configure” course, one of three courses that serve as a requirement to become a VMware Certified Professional. In the increasingly costly travel climate, Live Online and Flex Online provides students with a variety of options to help them decide how, when and where to attend their courses. * “Authorized VMware training is the fastest growing part of our portfolio and we're seeing huge demand from our customers for all the courses we offer. Virtualization is having a massive impact on the IT market, so being able to offer Authorized Training and Certification is hugely important for us,” said Leigh Lovering, director, QA-IQ, a leading UK VATC. “We expect the number of students we train in 2008 to be over a 500% increase on 2007, and the first six months is already showing that we are well on the way to achieving that target.” For those looking to further t...

Though running Citrix XenApp 4.5 - formerly Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 - on XenServer 4.1, the new virtualization platform from Citrix, might be a likely topic for a Citrix Training Center blog, today the Citrix story I have to tell is actually about running XenApp 4.5 on VMware’s Virtual Infrastructure 3 (VI3), because that’s what the customer was doing. Apparently there’s a new industry coming up that is projected to bloom into a hundred and sixty billion dollar industry, soon, called “infrastructure on demand”. The task was to create a “button” to press that would provision Citrix server vm’s, apps installed, Citrix software installed, configuration complete and documented, immediately, and while many of my peers approach this from a scripting point of view, with Windows sysprep utility and Enteo software complicating the process, I decided to see if I could get a citrix-vm clone going, having been hanging around training centers for the past 15 years and dealing with ghost issu...

This is live blogging from Mumbai ( Oh, BTW for my geographically challenged friends, it is in India :-)): This week I am coordinating a training for our staff (12 VMware trainees) with HP India for VMware 3.5 Install and Configure. As you may have known the instal and configure training has the coolest new features called: VUM (VMware Update Manager) Storage VMotion and lots more!!! Why you need to follow VMware training? - You get to take the hottest industry level standard certification program caled VCP (VMware Certified Professional) - When you have a VCP, you can also apply for the VCDE, which will soon be available. So go to the nearest educational institution and get your VMware training now! P.S: And you can be anywhere in the world, you'd be surprised how fast and quick VMware can get you in the training program. Check out VMware's educational site here .

I got this email and later the DVD of this 2 CD ESX Server training video, from David's team. I was prompted to chat up with David and ask about who he was and all the energy he puts in writing the video tutorials. David is a soft-spoken and a highly talented individual. It was fun chatting up with you, David! Who is David? David Davis (CCIE #9369, VCP, CWNA, MCSE, CISSP, Linux+, CEH) has been in the IT industry for 15 years. Currently, he manages a group of systems/network administrators for a privately owned retail company and authors IT-related material in his spare time. He has written hundreds of articles, six video training courses – including the Train Signal VMware ESX Server video training series. His websites are: VMware Videos.com and Happy Router.com Answers to questions- Tell us a bit about yourself, David? I have been in the IT industry about 15 years and have served as a network admin, server admin, and Infrastructure Manager. In my spare ti...

Barry reporting from Citrix's blog: Peter Blum from the Citrix XenServer team put together a short (37 minutes) product training for XenServer and recorded it using Camtasia. Below the info on the video, I have posted some info on the hardware support for Citrix XenServer (Processors, memory, storage, network) as well as the virtual machine limitations. In this video, Peter covers the following topics - 1.Setting up Xen Enterprise and Xen Center. 2.Creating resource pool. 3.Attaching the remote storage. 4.Creating VM 5.Using some of the features in the product. You can watch (and listen) to this mini product training here. After you watch teh XenServer training video, you may to read about the specific new features in XenServer v4 in this post. If you would like to go through a quick install yourself, you can download XenServer Express Edition for free. Once you have the code downloaded, it takes about 10 minutes to Xen Here are some background requirements for installing Citrix Xe...

Intense School, the training division of Vigilar, and a leading provider of IT and security training services, today announced the availability of a new VMware Boot Camp, which includes the industry's most comprehensive security training for VMware. As organizations continue to deploy virtual machines throughout their environment, and make them a critical part of their infrastructure, the ability to manage and secure these machines becomes crucial to overall security posture. Intense School's new VMware training course provides four days of hands-on VMware ESX training by Intense School's virtualization experts. Topics covered in depth include ESX Server 3.5, VirtualCenter 2.5, Storage VMotion, Update Manager, Distributed Power Management, and VMware Guided Consolidation. In addition, instructors will review 3rd party tools to help assist in the deployment and management of a virtual infrastructure. The Boot Camp will include four key areas of security training for VMware: ...

Toolwire was chosen to participate in the Citrix Summit 2008 worldwide partner event last week to demonstrate this innovative learning technology to over 3,300 attendees. The program developed for Citrix utilizes Toolwire's unique Enterprise Live Labs OnDemand (ELO) solution. Authorized users sign into a dedicated Citrix Virtual Lab environment on the Toolwire platform, which provides hosting and delivery of the Citrix XenServer virtualization software and access to hands-on Live Labs for the XenServer product. Integrating Citrix XenServer within its platform, Toolwire provides each user with the ability to access physical servers for the labs focusing on a range of technical topics. For instance, users have the ability to install and configure Citrix XenServer components on a physical server as well as on a virtual machine image, as needed. Additionally, Toolwire created a Citrix XenServer Sandbox Environment for users to return to after the initial training so they may access th...

Citrix claimed the program removes the need for multiple days of travel to offsite training by enabling partners to complete the two days worth of technical training online. Former XenSource resellers and current Citrix partners are automatically eligible to sell Citrix XenServer solutions to their customers. Partners joining the XenServer reseller program through 2008 will also be offered the online technical training course at no additional cost. “With the new XenServer product line, Citrix is expanding resellers’ choice when it comes to virtualisation platforms and helping them generate increased revenues in one of today’s highest-growth markets,” said Al Monserrat, vice president of worldwide channels and emerging product sales for Citrix. Link from CRN Australia

Storage Academy events will be divided into two conference tracks and an exhibition area. Track One presentations are completely vendor neutral and will be delivered by SNIA representatives while Track Two presentations will be delivered by conference sponsors and include vendor-specific material. The new, one-day format, has been adopted by SNIA ANZ as other SNIA groups worldwide have had considerable success with events of this type. The Storage Academy program for 2008 will commence with the following dates: * Sydney Hilton -- 18th March 2008 * Auckland Langham -- 26th March 2008 More on this

Vizioncore Inc., the market leader in management tools for virtual infrastructure environments, today announced the Vizioncore Authorised Learning Centre (VALC) program, allowing distribution partners to offer approved training courses on Vizioncore’s products. The tailored training programs will be delivered by Vizioncore Authorised Instructors (VAI), and those individuals who successfully complete a course will be accredited as Vizioncore Technical Professionals (VTP). Distribution partners who join up to the VALC will benefit from greater access to free software for tuition purposes as well as technical support and official teaching materials. “As virtualisation moves into the mainstream, customers across the globe are becoming increasingly aware of its benefits, but as with any new and groundbreaking technology, customers require specific skills and education to take full advantage of it,” said Colin Wright, Regional Director, Northern Europe at Vizioncore. “We have developed the V...

I can still feel the excitement my class went through last week in Kampala. They have a couple of copies of all our "VMware Movies". As a trainer, it is really the coolest thing to have, really!! Enjoy this movie... Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Share Photos - Free Video Hosting PS: Sorry YouTube had some issues with the Vid Length, so I went to MotionBox and later to Dropshots ;)

and Ictivity is one of them. Het portofolio aan XenSource training is volop in voorbereiding, maar Ictivity kan nu al aangeven dat er in november en december beheer- en implementatie trainingen gepland gaan worden in onze vestigingen te Amsterdam en Eindhoven. so by November, administration and implementation training would be ready in Amsterdam and Eindhoven. link.

Saw this spreading like wild fire.

Saw this (via a poster on the VMTN forum). I really have not been able to grasp the CBT thing. I like text and docs. A little video to show something cool is great as well. But anyways there is a CBT out there. The CBT contains 10 videos as follows: Lesson 1: Introduction to Virtualization & ESX Server 3.0 Lesson 2: Installing & Configuring ESX Server 3.0 Lesson 3: Virtual Networking Concepts Lesson 4: Storage Concepts Lesson 5: Installation & Administration with Virtual Center Lesson 6: VM Creation, Gold Builds and Clones Lesson 7: Resource Management Lesson 8: VM Access Control Lesson 9: Disaster Recovery & Backup Lesson 10: Monitoring Check it out ...