Start a high-paying IT career with this AWS prep course

Source:-engadget.com This 17-hour training package will help you ace the exam for one of tech’s most coveted credentials. If you’re interested in either beginning or furthering a career in IT, you’re not alone. More and more people are flocking to this increasingly lucrative field thanks to high salaries, job security, and unparalleled opportunities for advancement—but that means that competition for the best positions in the industry can be fierce. As one of the world’s leading cloud computing infrastructures, Amazon Web

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Can cloud computing bridge the gap in learning

Source:-hindustantimes.comIndian students are warming up to the EdTech platforms to enhance their learning experience. According to Tracxn Technologies, India now has over 4,000 EdTech start-ups offering OTT mobile/desktop apps that provide coaching on different subjects relevant to Indian students. The rapid pace of technology dispersion is altering every aspect of our lives. Though technology is playing an integral role in India, its adoption in some of the country’s sectors has been slow, with a key area being education. The utilization

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Despite moving to the cloud, IT departments struggle to meet business demands

Source:-techrepublic.com Software company OpsRamp surveyed 250 IT managers on current trends as well as the future of the industry. They sought to answer three questions: What forces prevent IT operations from embracing modernization, how can companies develop high-performance digital operations teams, and how can they recruit or retain elite talent to accelerate digital transformation. In the “Adapt or Perish: The OpsRamp Report on Modern IT Operations in the Digital Age” survey, all of the respondents worked for companies with more

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Going Serverless with AWS

Source:-mediatemple.net Despite its name, serverless doesn’t mean servers are absent—that is impossible because code still needs to run somewhere. Rather, the trick is that serverless allows you to stop worrying about where and how exactly the code will be run.  In this two-part series, we’ll dive into the history of serverless in order to understand this difference correctly. We’ll then explore the benefits and limitations of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda, as well as general approaches to building serverless applications. 

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DevOps now most sought-after skill, and with good reason

Source:-zdnet.com If one seeks evidence of how hot DevOps is these days, look to demand for appropriate skills as an indicator. And DevOps skills top the list these days. That’s the word from a survey of 250 IT managers from OpsRamp, which finds widespread demand for DevOps capabilities and skills. For starters, nearly two-thirds are actively seeking a DevOps approach.  DevOps skills are more in demand than any other IT-related skill, even surpassing cloud and data science skills. Close to two-thirds of

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D2iQ Previews Significant Expansion of its Ksphere Portfolio of Advanced Kubernetes Offerings for Smarter Day 2 Operations

Source:-prnewswire.com D2iQ, the leading provider of enterprise-grade cloud platforms that power smarter Day 2 operations, today previewed a set of upcoming solutions and announcements regarding their Ksphere offering for Kubernetes, including the general availability of its open source project, KUDO, as well as Kommander, coming next month. First, D2iQ announced the upcoming availability of three data services designed to empower end-to-end pipelines for IoT and Edge infrastructure, based on KUDO, an open source project providing a universal declarative framework for deploying

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How the cloud transformed employee learning

Source:- raconteur.net Cloud is shaking up traditional employee development, but what impact has this had on the workforce and, ultimately, business performance? While learning and development (L&D) is at the heart of a company’s digital transformation, gone are the days of providing employee training during induction or group classroom sessions. The digital revolution has transformed the technology used to train employees, as well as expectations of access to learning materials. The challenge for firms is to ensure L&D evolves alongside employees’

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Kubernetes and multi-cloud: How to monitor your modern applications effectively

Source:- cloudcomputing-news.net Many companies are moving to a new way of delivering service to customers based on microservices. Rather than building huge and monolithic apps, microservices uses small and interconnected application components instead. These modern applications tend to be easier to update and expand than those traditional applications, as replacement services can be slotted in using APIs rather than requiring full rewrites. To support this design approach, developers are making more use of cloud and containers. According to the Continuous Intelligence

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Upping IT Skills: IT Pros Cite Significant Challenges

Source:- devops.com Anyone who works within enterprise technology learns very quickly that if they want to stay relevant to the workforce, they’ll need to continuously learn new skills. But it’s certainly hard keeping up with new skill training while also keeping pace with day-to-day work demands. This is probably why a survey earlier this year from IT management software provider SolarWinds found that 70% of all technology professionals surveyed do not feel completely confident that they have all the necessary

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IT collaboration, DevOps a key to business success, says Robert Half

Source – itwire.com Australian companies need to improve collaboration between IT professionals and find ways to successfully leverage technology across the business in the current highly competitive environment, according to a newly published report. According to the report from recruitment firm Robert Half, the implementation of Development Operations (DevOps) is at the heart of the optimisation of collaboration between those in IT departments. And the recruiter says Australian companies need to build, test, and roll out new or updated solutions to

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New practices spring from DevOps competency shortage

Source – techtarget.com Once you establish DevOps competency, employee retention is an even bigger challenge in a highly competitive seller’s market for technical skills. “High tech has a lot to learn about culture from the manufacturing business,” E3’s Rheem said. Companies eager to retain employees often find themselves in a “perk race,” but perks quickly become entitlements, Rheem said. Most companies don’t have a great sense of what makes people want to come to work, which is predictability, consistency and the

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Demand for cloud computing skills continues to outpace supply

Source – searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com As enterprises continue to adopt cloud technology, the looming IT skills gap, particularly around public cloud poses an ongoing challenge. “Many firms are having trouble finding qualified individuals for their cloud projects,” said James Stanger, senior director, product development, for CompTIA. While demand for IT pros with generic cloud computing skills continues to be high, those with specific experience in public cloud and open source platforms, such as Cloud Foundry, are especially coveted. Cloud continues to drive IT hiring At

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The Future of IT Skills for Technical Support Organizations

Source – dqindia.com Over the past few years, digital transformation has become a watchword for many businesses. In this new era defined by cloud computing, social media and mobile strategies, companies are pursuing new IT tools, and it is clear that the best use of tools require a disruption to operational procedures. Accompanies seek success with new products and new customers; there are many areas that must be addressed in order to become a truly digital service provider. One of the

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Needed now and for the foreseeable future: Five hot IT skills

Source – techtarget.com I lived through the dot-com bubble and collapse. I mention this because in some ways the current technology startup and IT salary craziness seem eerily similar to that — but with one critical difference. Back in the dot-com days the hysteria over internet-based startups fueled the creation of companies whose only compelling business model was to do something — anything — online. The big difference between then and now is that organizations are using technology to do more

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