Advanced Services Education

Accelerate Your IT Skills Development

Learning@Cisco, EMC Education Services, and VMware Education have teamed up to offer advanced training and certifications to help you acquire the skills to successfully design, build, and transform your IT infrastructure, adopt cloud computing, and realize the promise of data science and big data analytics.

Demonstrate Expertise, Strengthen Credibility

The education solutions offered in this program combine current curriculum available from Cisco, EMC, and VMware into a logically organized learning framework. The courses address disciplines such as cloud architecture, systems administration, storage, backup and recovery, data center networking, data center design, and systems management.

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• Backup and Recovery
• Data Center Networking
• Data Center Networking Design

Cloud Architect

Topics covered:

• Cloud infrastructure and services
• Virtualized data center infrastructure
• IT-as-a-service planning and design
• vCloud Director: Deploy and manage

Cloud Architects are vital to long-term, highly efficient virtualization and cloud environment design. They interface with the business and provide cross-domain expertise leading all the way to IT-as-a-Service. Create a strong team for building a robust cloud data center.

Compute Systems

Topics covered:

• Cloud infrastructure and services
• Data center unified computing
• vSphere: Install, configure, and manage

Systems professionals are at the center of the virtual data center, implementing and managing the computing resources that underpin cloud environments. Prepare the systems team to virtualize server resources, deploy a unified computing environment, and ensure that the virtual data center is aligned to current or future cloud and IT-as-a-service models

Information Storage

Topics covered:

• Information storage and management
• Storage networking design

Storage domain architects provide domain-specific planning and design skills to complement, expand, and complete the designs for robust, cloud-ready, virtualized infrastructure implementations.

Backup and Recovery

Topics covered:

• Information storage and management
• Information availability design

Plan, design, and deploy Information availability solutions, including backup and recovery, business continuity, disaster recovery, and archiving. Gain a thorough exposure to information availability requirement analysis, business value justification, and technology design best practices.

Data Center Networking

Topics covered:

• Cloud infrastructure and Services
• Data center unified fabric implementation

Network administrators implement modern data center network designs using products such as the Cisco Nexus 7000 and 5000 Series Switches, as well as Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders. These networks make heavy use of network virtualization and data center unified fabrics that use both Fibre Channel and Fibre Channel over Ethernet technologies.

Data Center Networking Design

Topics covered:

• Cloud Infrastructure and Services
• Designing Cisco data center unified fabric
• Configuring the Cisco Nexus Data Center

Network architects design and plan data centers based on virtualization, unified fabric, and cloud computing technologies. Designs include support for virtual machine and storage mobility using VMware VMotion, as well as data center network extension technology such as FabricPath and Overlay Transport Virtualization.

Management

Topics covered:

• Cloud infrastructure and services

Monitor and manage the health, capacity, configuration, and performance of your highly virtualized and cloud infrastructure. Automate manual operations management tasks through actionable intelligence, and gain greater visibility across the infrastructure and applications for faster problem resolution.

Ready to design a cost-effective plan to transform your entire IT organization? Engage Cisco or EMC to gain access to all the learning paths.

Disclaimer:

*EMC is not an authorized Cisco delivery partner. *Cisco is not an authorized delivery or VMware Authorized Training Center (VATC) partner.