As part of a strategic plan to makeover The City of Mississauga's IT processes and infrastructure, an IT training course that would normally have taken two weeks was compressed and customized into a boot-camp-style session for IT staff.
Microsoft has begun to take steps to prevent antitrust settlement violations, including employee training programs, as part of the agreement it reached with the U.S. government last November.
During a live Network World chat, expert Adam Gordon discussed the best security certifications, the tricky aspects of gaining real-world hacking experience and why our government should get with the program of ethical hacking. Gordon is the CTO and CISO for computer training firm New Horizons CLC of South Florida. He has personally completed most of the major security certifications (he's got over a dozen including MCSE + Security, CISSP, ISSAP, SCNP, CWSP, CEH and Security + CompTIA) and has been an IT t
Training is often among the first items cut from budgets when companies need to trim expenses. Industry watchers and IT professionals share tips on how to get certification-level IT skills with little cash.
Last week, we discussed how financial holding company National City used flexible online training to educate 15,000-plus customers on its new treasury management applications within 2 months. Today, we have a similar story about training in the fast lane at Cingular Wireless.
Webtorials and the Comnet Conference and Expo recently inked a deal to make Webtorials the official archive site for the conference materials. There are at least two convergence angles to the deal.
Oracle Executive Chairman Larry Ellison unveiled Sunday new cloud applications and services, including a training tool that integrates with the company's human resources application, and gave a glimpse of the company's security strategy.
What's your best line of defense against cybersecurity threats? Skilled, experienced, highly trained IT talent. Don't skimp on hiring, training and retention, or your business may suffer the consequences.
In what may be a sign that the network industry is finally getting serious about IPv6, providers of network analysis tools and training systems say sales are up for their offerings that support IPv6, the next generation of the Internet Protocol.
A projected shortage of qualified data scientists could leave U.S. businesses unable to tap the value of big data. To help meet that demand, the University of California at Berkeley has developed a master's degree program to train new data scientists.
Microsoft Subnet welcomes Global Knowledge Training as a contributor to Microsoft Subnet. In honor of this partnership, Global Knowledge is offering a free Microsoft training course worth up to $2,995 from to be given away to one lucky Microsoft Subnet reader.
New York State is extremely concerned about phishing in general, and more specifically spear phishing, highly targeted phishing attacks designed to penetrate organizations, government agencies, and groups etc.
Installing the latest security hardware and software means nothing if end users don't practice cyber safety. And the best way to get end users to 'think security' is to create an ongoing culture of security at your company.
Telework training has been around forever; but only now are we seeing the first telework certificate program. Offered by Washington State University and the Telework Collaborative, the new online courses are open to everyone and cost $195 each.
Lou Hunnebeck, vice president for the ITIL training and consulting firm, Third Sky discusses v3, how ITIL saves money, vendor marketing ploys and ITIL certifications in a Network World chat
At its new TrailheaDX event in San Francisco, Salesforce unveiled new tools for its Lightning development platform as well as expanded training offerings, a new investment fund and a new incubator.
As users gathered at VMworld in San Francisco on Wednesday to learn about virtualization and cloud computing, EMC was stepping up its efforts to help enterprises that adopt private clouds do it right.
Microsoft is offering 30,000 vouchers for free worker training classes in Washington state, at an estimated value of US$3 million, the company said on Monday.
Juniper, the challenger to Cisco in the service provider core routing and enterprise networking markets is making its boldest move yet to target the Cisco enterprise installed base. It is offering free training to Cisco certified professionals worldwide to become Juniper-certified. The program ends December 2007 and is aimed at Cisco Certified Network Associates, Cisco Certified Network Professionals, and Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts.
Cisco has added a new entry level certification to its training program. The Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician (CCENT) can be considered a half-way point to the current entry-level program, the Cisco Certified Networking Associate (CCNA), which has been moved up the stack.
Data-science training company DataCamp has added DataCamp Groups so organizational team leaders can coordinate teams or classes, track their students’ progress and see how their skills evolve over time.
The threats posed by negligent insiders top many security professionals' lists of security concerns, but even organizations that have data protection and privacy training programs aren't getting through to their employees.
Well, it's time to go. As you know, this is the final edition of the IT Careers and Training Alert newsletter. While I'm disappointed to see the newsletter come to an end, I've enjoyed writing this each week and hope you have enjoyed reading it. We've covered a lot of career news, including extensive talk about Cisco and Microsoft certifications, crackdowns on exam cheating, and trends that impact availability of and compensation for IT jobs. Since it's the last newsletter, let's take a look back at some o