CTU at ITWeb Virtualisation and Cloud Computing Summit

CTU Training Solutions attended and sponsored the ITWeb Virtualisation and Cloud Computing Summit 17-19 July 2012.

“What a phenomenal eye-opening experience”, says Jadine van der Colff (Marketing Coordinator) from CTU Training Solutions.

We have been marketing Cloud training and certifications significantly over the past 2 years. It is amazing to hear and see how medium to large size enterprises has implemented Cloud models in their businesses and how important it was for them to have certified Cloud solutions experts to move their business to the cloud.

Do you use Facebook? That’s cloud computing! Do you use Google. Well, that’s cloud too. Do you get your e-mails on your phone? Yup, that’s cloud. How about CRM or SharePoint? These are all Cloud technologies that we are using in our day to day lives without realising it. We need trained ICT professionals and developers to configure, maintain, develop, integrate and implement all these technologies and solutions. It was made very clear that the need for certified individuals still remains.

“In today’s cut-throat business environment, it is essential to innovate in order to remain competitive. One such innovation is adopting cloud services in order to realise efficient service and performance. Organisations need to educate themselves about the various cloud computing solutions available, as this will allow them to gauge the benefits within the environment in which they operate.” ITWeb Virtualisation and Cloud Computing Summit Article

André de Beer, Datacentre Technical Solutions Professional from Microsoft has the following to say:

“The Virtualisation and Cloud Computing Summit hosted by ITWeb was refreshing as it moved away from the traditional cold stereotypes of cloud computing and showed the very diverse areas in the cloud where companies are getting value from.”

“Prof Pete Janse van Vuuren and Darryl Thwaits started the event perfectly by giving a conceptual overview of what the Cloud is about and more importantly what it is not. This set the scene for the other presenters to show there ‘stuff’.”

“The technical sessions that impressed me the most was the implementations at the Foschini group and Sun International. It really showed what can be achieved when business vision and IT capability meet. Being a Microsoft employee, my personal highlight in these sessions was that the companies are using Microsoft System Center very successfully to manage their Cloud and virtualisation environment.” (CTU offers Microsoft System Centre training formally known as SCCM 2010.)

“The session that intrigued me the most was the session from Tammy Bortz on protecting data in the cloud. I was expecting a technical discussion, but got a legal view which was unexpected, but very thought provoking. This is the core stuff that will make cloud work… or not work. But we tend to push it to the side lines because it does not fit in our traditional models.”

“Day 3 at the workshops really gave me the opportunity to engage with the delegates on Hyper-V in Windows 2008 R8 and the new features of Windows 2012. Delegates were really impressed with the new advances made in WS2012. The de-duplication and virtualisation technologies were the components in WS2012 that drew the most attention from the delegates.”

We at CTU look forward to meeting with the summit attendees again in the near future.