Mirantis Launches Vendor-Agnostic OpenStack Certification

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

Cloud certifications are popping up more and more. Some are vendor-specific. Some are vendor-agnostic. And across those two categories are certificates that cover various categories of cloud technology. Enter Mirantis, the pure OpenStack play vendor, with a new vendor-agnostic certification around the open source cloud platform.

Mirantis Certification for OpenStack is being targeted at systems administrators and OpenStack cloud operators as the first vendor-agnostic OpenStack certification. Whether it’s truly the first vendor-agnostic certification is debatable, but the company is aiming to certify OpenStack cloud professionals on their proficiency to deploy and operate vendor-agnostic OpenStack cloud environments. That’s a good step, and one that could play well in the open source cloud space as it continues to grow and gain traction…

"What enterprises are desperately looking for today is a standards-based, cost-effective control plane for a heterogeneous, multi-vendor infrastructure environment; and that is precisely the vision behind OpenStack," said Boris Renski, co-founder and executive vice president at Mirantis, in a prepared statement. "We believe that infrastructure experts who complete Mirantis Certification for OpenStack are best positioned to help enterprises realize this cloud vision."…

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