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In the rapidly evolving world of IT infrastructure and cloud computing, organisations are constantly looking for ways to transform and modernise their data centres. One of the leading solutions increasingly emerging in this regard is VMware Cloud Foundation. This powerful platform provides an integrated and automated infrastructure that enables companies to operate more efficiently, save costs and be more agile. In this article, we dive deeper into VMware Cloud Foundation and discuss training options to build the expertise needed.

PRINCE2® has a storied heritage spanning over 30 years, 200 countries, and is universally applicable to any industry or type of project, irrespective of size or complexity. Building on this robust foundation and industry-wide recognition, the PRINCE2® 7 method brings a renewed focus on the flexibility and adaptability required for today's fast-paced, digital-centric project environments.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is grabbing headlines and inspiring imaginations around the world with its potential to transform the world as we know it. With Microsoft Cloud, organizations have a unique opportunity to amplify human ingenuity and realize exponential value with the leading AI platform.

Global Knowledge, a Skillsoft company and global leader in corporate learning solutions, has announced that it has successfully completed the six badges needed to earn the highest designation in Microsoft’s new Solutions Partner program. This partnership will showcase Global Knowledge’s proven capabilities in its learning offerings and ability to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions to customers across the globe.

With the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) via tools like ChatGPT and Microsoft Co-polit, the AI engineer certification is more relevant than ever. Technical challenges and ethical considerations make AI one of the hottest and most dynamic subjects today. AI engineers are responsible for designing and developing intelligent solutions that encapsulate AI capabilities.

Quality exam preparation content is extremely important to us so that you will be prepared on exam day. Skillsoft Global Knowledge ensure that all objectives of the exam are covered in depth so you'll be ready for any question on the exam. Our Exam Prep ‘deep dive’ events are written by industry experts in the subject matter. They work closely with Microsoft to understand the exam objectives, participate in beta testing and take the exam themselves before creating new practice tests and exam prep events.

This role was a “Systems Administrator” in the past. But with cloud and the broad services cloud platforms offer, there is a need for a different approach. The Microsoft identity and access administrator designs, implements, and operates an organization’s identity and access management systems by using Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), part of Microsoft Entra. They configure and manage authentication and authorization of identities for users, devices, Azure resources, and applications.

Join us for a Fireside Chat with cybersecurity evangelist, James Stanger, Skillsoft’s Brad Haynes as they discusses the essential skills needed to monitor, analyze, and protect the attack surface(s) presented by today’s organizations. Security analysts and engineers face constant challenges in staying ahead of evolving cybersecurity threats. James and Brad Haynes will discuss trends identified by CompTIA research. They will also discuss learning pathways that you can take to make yourself uniquely attractive to hiring managers. Skillsoft security analysis courses are designed to equip professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to address these challenges effectively.   In this webinar webinar to learn more about our security analytics courses and how they can help you: Understand the latest cybersecurity threats and attack techniques Identify vulnerabilities and potential threats in your organization's network and systems Utilize various tools and techniques to analyze data and mitigate threats Develop and implement effective incident response plans Stay up-to-date with industry best practices and standards Watch Now

Where the Azure Administrator is seen as a spider in the web of Microsoft cloud services is the Azure Architect playing the role of a generalist. They hold the umbrella of Azure Administration, Azure Development and Devops processes. Therefore they need to have advanced experience and knowledge of IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platforms, and governance. And a professional in this role should manage how decisions in each area affect an overall solution. Every organisation with some cloud ambitions should have at least one of these Architects in their teams.

As the skills gap continues to impact businesses in critical areas like cloud, data science and cybersecurity, organizations seek out those professionals with reputable credentials that validate their experience and capability. In turn, these certified professionals tend to enjoy more leverage in the marketplace because they’ve earned certifications recognized as trustworthy affirmations of their skills.

The Microsoft security operations analyst can be seen as the gatekeeper for the organisation and collaborates with organizational stakeholders to secure information technology systems for the organization. Their goal is to reduce organizational risk by rapidly remediating active attacks in the environment, advising on improvements to threat protection practices, and referring violations of organizational policies to appropriate stakeholders.

Explore the key features and benefits of Azure Active Directory Identity Protection. You'll learn how this powerful tool can help you detect and mitigate identity risks, automate threat response, and provide real-time protection against suspicious activities.

Cloud technologies continue to help organizations transform their businesses at a rapid pace. To ensure continued value from their cloud investments, organizations must empower their teams with current, role-relevant cloud skills.

VMware vSphere 8 is the enterprise workload platform that brings the benefits of cloud to on-premises workloads. It supercharges performance with DPU and GPU based acceleration, enhances operational efficiency through the VMware Cloud Console, seamlessly integrates with add-on hybrid cloud services, and accelerates innovation with an enterprise-ready integrated Kubernetes runtime that runs containers alongside VMs.

In spring 2020, the Cisco certification program went through a shake-up. Cisco announced a completely new program, including the Cisco Career certification. This certification allows IT professionals to demonstrate they have the right Cisco knowledge.

Since PeopleCert’s acquisition of the ITIL Body of Knowledge in 2021, they have worked to modernize, refine, and improve the guidance it provides so that businesses that adopt it facilitate better collaboration between IT and its stakeholders, experience greater user satisfaction when utilizing IT services, and deliver improved business outcomes. During that time, the certification program has continued to evolve to better align to the people doing the work, the roles they hold, and the types of practices they perform in the co-creation of value for the organization. We plan to discuss the value & benefits that ITIL certification brings to organizations, to describe the re-certification pathways of the recently announced recertification program, and to illustrate how you can leverage the modern components of the ITIL framework to grow your ITSM practice. We hope you’ll join us, along with our partners from Peoplesoft, for this robust discussion on the modern practices of the ITIL®4 framework, and how Skillsoft can help you implement them. Watch Now

Earning your ITIL 4 Foundation certification carries a lot of value. Armed with an understanding of the ITIL framework, you can better align IT with business objectives.

ITIL is the preeminent framework for managing IT service delivery around the world. ITIL 4 defines a Service Value System that prescribes specific practices and activities during the design, development, delivery, and support of IT services.

The main reason for Python’s explosive growth is that it’s very easy to learn, use, and deploy, and in this 45-minute webinar, we’ll take a high level look at Python’s syntax, and explore some of the other reasons for Python’s ubiquity, including its very active and evangelical user community, and the availability of a huge collection of add-ons and libraries, including hundreds for data science and machine learning. Join Skillsoft as we focus on the role that Python can play in almost every area of your business, including as a productivity tool for employees and domains that you might not necessarily associate with a programming function. Watch Now

Whether you are at the start of your Microsoft learning or you’re looking to expand or update your skillset, a certification can help you validate your knowledge and consolidate your skills. Plus, it can help you advance in your career.

Whether you’re a business user, administrator, or embarking on your technical career, this certification provides an opportunity to prove yourself as a cloud evangelist. In addition to validating your knowledge of Microsoft 365 capabilities, earning this certification makes it clear to your organization that you understand the benefits of adopting cloud services, the basics of a Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud model, and the value of implementing Microsoft 365 cloud services. Join Skillsoft in the third of our Transformative Tech Microsoft Certification series, where we demonstrate foundational-level knowledge of cloud services, such as standard practices, considerations, and benefits. Watch Now

The new Solution Specializations are designed to more closely align to the offers and solutions delivered by partners to their customers.

Cisco Learning Credits (CLCs) are prepaid training vouchers that make planning for your success easier when purchasing Cisco products and services.

Microsofts Partner program has moved from Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) with 18 different competencies to a simplified program with 6 partner designations in the Microsoft Cloud Partner Program (MCPP). This new partner program reflects the importance of the Microsoft cloud strategy as all parts of the program relate to cloud solutions.

To stay competitive in the industry, your employers and clients rely on you to stay ahead of the tech curve. Maybe they look to you when they evaluate a move to the cloud, or maybe they bring you a problem and point to an existing tech stack for solutions you may or may not be able to create. Whatever the scenario, you can be sure that the skills you bring to the table are critical on many levels. We will take a look at the cybersecurity Architect Expert certification track. This is the first expert-level certification in Microsoft’s Security, Compliance, and Identity portfolio. This certification will focus on designing elements of a cybersecurity architecture and evaluating the tradeoffs between different solutions.   Watch Now

Join Skillsoft, as part of our Transformative Tech series, as we demonstrate how we can educate your organization to foster a culture of cybersecurity and unify all employees to manage risk and encourage agility and vigilance.   Watch Now

Chaos and disorganization are commonplace as organizations struggle to manage IT-enabled services, which can have a serious impact on the Helpdesk. Skillsoft has the solution with ITIL. The Foundation, Advanced, and Extension Modules will provide knowledge and training so that you can proactively build and manage a blueprint for IT. This will enable you to effectively address real-world issues that impact your service organizations and their individual contributors alike.   Watch Now

We are collectively generating terabytes and petabytes of data on a daily basis. Today’s organizations and governments worldwide need data curators to help sift through that random data and tease out unique insights and actionable information.

In this presentation, CompTIA’s Dr. James Stanger will provide case studies and examples describing how zero trust is implemented in the private and public sector. Dr. Stanger will outline discussions he has had with industry leaders from Google, NIST, and other organizations worldwide who have led the way in successful zero trust implementations. He will outline the best practices and technologies necessary to build next-level networks.

With the increase in number of devices, technologies, platforms and systems we use in our networks today, either they are for security, voice, routing, collaboration, data center or enterprise, we need something to make life easier and automate configurations for us.

Organizations’ network systems are becoming increasingly more complex. With the expansion of the cloud, an increase in the number of employees working from home, growth in the number and diversity of devices being used, and new and ongoing security threats, networking professionals need to be both knowledgeable and have well-developed problem-solving skills.

This article – the first in a series explaining VMware offerings – is designed to simplify things. We hope to explain what specific VMware products do, why each one is important, and what skills you need to leverage them in your own organization. In this article, we’ll look at VMware NSX-T™ Data Center.

CCNP Security (Cisco Certified Network Professional Security) personnel manages security in Routers, Switches, Networking Devices, and appliances The certified professional is responsible for configuring, supporting, and resolving Firewalls, VPNs, IDS/IPS and content security solutions for their networking environment.

This forty-five minute webinar will help you prepare to write the VCP-DCV 2021 VMware exam (2V0-21.20). In addition to a Q&A session, the webinar will cover tips and tricks that cover the key exam objectives. View the slides

When the agile movement first saw broad adoption, there was tremendous success at the team level. It didn't take long for large organizations to run into challenges seeing that same type of success in larger, more complex initiatives. This presentation is an introduction to the expanded principles of agility intended to harness the effectiveness of agile teams and bring better organizational alignment to larger efforts built upon the effectiveness of highly agile teams.

As organizations look to do more with fewer resources and better leverage scarce knowledge across their entire organization, they have found that the traditional hierarchical management structure no longer meets the needs of the business. Enterprises have turned to the matrix organizational structure for increased flow of information across departments and greater flexibility and responsiveness.

To understand the difference between Ethernet II and 802.3, you first must know how Ethernet works. While Ethernet cables transmit data, their role is relatively simple compared to that of the Ethernet card — also referred to as an adapter. It’s within the function of this card that you find the differences between Ethernet II and 802.3.

CCNP Security (Cisco Certified Network Professional Security) personnel manages security in Routers, Switches, Networking Devices, and appliances The certified professional is responsible for configuring, supporting, and resolving Firewalls, VPNs, IDS/IPS and content security solutions for their networking environment.

If you enjoy analyzing data and using Power BI to discover and unlock data insights, this could be the ideal certification for you – especially if you use those insights to provide easy-to-understand data visualizations that can help drive the success of your team and organization. Join Skillsoft in the second of our Transformative Tech Microsoft Certification series, where we leverage our expert knowledge in Microsoft Power BI to inform you on the potential benefits for your business when utilizing Power BI. In this webinar you will learn: Watch Now

VMware software and products are popular among enterprises. However, they are also highly proprietary. So, unless you have had experience with VMware products, any experience with other software can only serve as a foundation for using vSphere and other software that VMware offers.

Virtualization is a constantly evolving process, with new platforms introducing tools every day that are designed to make the process of moving to the cloud simpler.

Value stream mapping can be a dramatically transformational event – expanding empathy across teams, sharing points of view, and solving gaps in understanding which may be robbing everyone of productivity. This webinar will quickly equip attendees with a high-level understanding of value stream mapping and will teach practical tips on how to run a value stream mapping exercise within their teams and organizations.

While the recent trend towards cloud computing might make it seem like virtualization is new, it has existed in some form for many decades.

Most of us have heard of "oversharing" in the social sense (i.e. giving out too many details of your personal life), but how about "under sharing" in the Windows Server realm? What does that even mean? Well, I sort of just made that up, but it does actually make some sense when you think about it in terms of creating a Windows Share that doesn’t provide enough permissions.

As the sophistication, stealth, and frequency of cybersecurity threats continue to increase, the complexity of attacks means every organization needs security expertise before, during, and after an attack. For this reason, the demand for cybersecurity operations (CyberOps) personnel keeps going up.

There are many challenges that come to the forefront as you begin the process of virtualizing the data center and moving away from the current physical network setup.

Using Palo Alto Networks, PAN-OS, enterprises can build an IT Security Platform capable of delivering protection against all stages of the Cyber-Attack Lifecycle. From Reconnaissance to Act on Objective, the PAN-OS Single-Pass Parallel Processing (SP3) engine combines efficient throughput with maximum data protection. This live webinar will describe how the SP3 Architecture can increase network traffic visibility and enable you to control your environment.

The Internet is not automatically a secure or safe place to be. We need to re-evaluate what it means to be secure in our online activities. 

Mobile payment applications or systems have become commonplace with the expansive growth and popularity of smartphones and other mobile devices.

Protecting your IT assets from threats is an essential part of business and personal digital activities. VPNs and firewalls are two commonly used security tools to help reduce risk while maintaining usability. When used in concert, IT communications are filtered and encrypted.

According to our IT Skills and Salary Report, 85% of professionals possess at least one certification. That’s a ton of competition in the industry. And the general consensus is the more certifications, the better. So why are so many IT pros and decision-makers putting such an emphasis on certifications? Why is so much investment devoted to training?

As cloud platforms provide ever greater infrastructure capability, automating and managing infrastructure is becoming critical to our strategy and process. Tooling environments are also heavily impacted. Tools like Terraform, configuration automation tools (Chef, Ansible, etc.) and cloud-native infrastructure solutions completely change cost models and workflows. This presentation is an introduction to infrastructure automation in the cloud, a few popular automation tools, and how to tie automation to larger cloud (and business) strategy.

From analyzing your data and allowing to ask natural language questions to working with and building huge data models, this version of Excel has a lot to offer. These are some of the best features that Excel has to offer. Some haven’t finished their evolution yet either.

Next Hop Resolution Protocol enables businesses to have a way for next-hop servers and next-hop clients to communicate with each other directly, bypassing a central hub and preventing potential bottlenecks.

Discover how to accelerate the development of your security skills and competencies by incorporating experiential learning activities such as cyber ranges into training. Cyber ranges have emerged as excellent vehicles for helping IT professionals learn by doing. These realistic, hands-on simulations prepare you for when — not if — you’re attacked. And we’ve added them to GK Polaris!

Policy-based routing (PBR) provides network administrators with agility and flexibility to better manage traffic. With carefully architected policies, you can optimize how segments of your network process data, as well as how bandwidth is managed for business-critical applications.

Microsoft and Global Knowledge are partnering up to showcase the importance of Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Join this event to learn all the tools and tactics to stay safe and secure online throughout the whole year. This webinar event will take you through the new certifications focused on Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity (SCI). You'll learn more about the complete portfolio of associate training and certification for Microsoft Security and how it's designed to meet industry and market needs with roles, skills, and capabilities needed for the job, including specializations, hands-on experience, and practice requirements.

Join This QA Session to Hear from Cybersecurity Expert Brad Puckett on Kickstarting Your Career

Join Red Hat Training’s Solution Architect, John Walter, for a virtual, high-level complimentary course introducing you to Linux containers and container orchestration technology using Docker, Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.

The Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate certification focuses on the cybersecurity branch of IT security

When it comes to developing new, innovative ways and tools for breaching security, the attackers never stay idle – and so shouldn’t we when it comes to counteracting! Through the past few years, their inventiveness caused substantial damage in the area of supply chain attacks. During this webinar, Paula will demonstrate techniques of using the supply chain method and show tactics used today by cyber-criminals that allow them to deliver it and what are the prevention mechanisms to avoid being attacked by the newest innovations! Bring some coffee before attending!

In this webinar, we will cover what makes a successful team, how to drive high-performance in your team, different stages of team development and other topics. Understanding people skills, process skills, and setting team boundaries and norms will be discussed and how these can build the framework for your high-performance team. View Slide deck>>

Cybersecurity has become a key area of job growth in the last few years. Now more than ever, individuals with computer security skills are needed to fill jobs currently sitting vacant. All the while, new job positions come into existence every month with few qualified applicants.

In this hands-on demonstration, you observe the configuration of IMS, Internet, SOS, and Admin DNN objects (Data Networks Name). These DNNs will then be assigned to several slice descriptors, showing how geography enters into slice implementation. You will then watch the slice configured on a working 5G network. View slide deck>>

The Cisco Certified Network Professional Enterprise is built on the longstanding and well-recognized CCNP Routing and Switching. With the addition of evolving technologies, this makes the certification current and relevant. Having a vendor certification can be hit or miss, depending on the vendor, but with Cisco holding a major percentages of market share in the different technologies and implementations in the networking industry, having a CCNP Enterprise on your resume offers several advantages.

Many Enterprise companies use Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) as their Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP). OSPF relies on Link State Advertisements (LSAs) in order to advertise and learn subnets so whether it’s for CCNA or CCNP Enterprise or simply for a basic understanding of OSPF, it is important to understand the purpose of the various LSA types and how far the LSAs flood.

Despite rapid advances in technology, and widespread use of networks over the last few decades, the Fundamentals of Networking have not changed much. It is also quite surprising to see significant gaps or deficiencies in the foundational knowledge of many networking and IT professionals. This webinar attempts to highlight the common areas of such gaps and how to overcome them.

Getting the best possible performance from a SQL server can become more complicated as you add more operations to your database.

National Cybersecurity Awareness Month has grown into a global effort, with both individuals and organizations taking part — and for good reason.

A quick 30 minute look at ITIL 4 Service Value System focusing on the guiding principles –part of the core guidance of ITIL4. This webinar includes an example of how this guidance might be applied in an organization.  

Organizations and individuals are threatened with ever-growing cyber threats and must be prepared to address them. The more we are connected to networks, the more suspectable we are to attacks, therefore enterprises must stay current applying various cybersecurity measures and maintaining awareness of cybersecurity trends. View slide deck>>

This webinar is examining the process of how to best prepare for the Cisco Certified Network Professional in Enterprise skill set. We will look at the process to become certified including which exams to take; look at the available resources for study, including the blueprint for the exams and courses that are applicable. We will look at why someone might want to get certified as a CCNP Enterprise. We will also examine the process to maintain the certification. View slide deck>>

For every organization, effective cybersecurity depends on a careful deployment of technology, processes, and people. And if you get the people right, they’ll take care of the other two factors. Just like sports teams, cybersecurity teams need to be carefully bult and managed to reach optimum performance. They don’t just take shape naturally.

In any operational data center, it is critical to have the highest degree of visibility on network traffic for operations and application troubleshooting. In this white paper, we discuss how to achieve optimal visibility of any type of application traffic with Cisco Application Centric Architecture, or ACI.

In any operational data center, it is critical to have the highest degree of visibility on network traffic for operations and application troubleshooting.