OpenStack Grows Cloud Training Marketplace

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Sean Michael Kerner.

The open-source OpenStack cloud platform is a rapidly growing effort that is driving increasing demand for skilled professionals who know what it’s all it about. To that end, the OpenStack Foundation this week officially announced the OpenStack Training Marketplace to help meet the demand for skilled IT professionals.  In 2012, a number of companies emerged that began to offer some basic training on OpenStack, Jonathan Bryce, executive director of the OpenStack Foundation, told eWEEK.

OpenStack, which was born in 2010 when NASA joined with Rackspace to formally launch the project, now has the support of many of the world’s leading IT vendors, including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Intel, Cisco and AT&T, among others.   "There is now a huge demand for OpenStack expertise, so what we want to do is to try and put in place some standards for OpenStack education and training," Bryce said…


Training needs to cover core topics on the current release for OpenStack, Bryce said.  The Training Marketplace is all about getting vendors to sign on to a program where the OpenStack Foundation can aggregate all the different training offerings and make them available to the global community of OpenStack users. Currently, multiple vendors—including Rackspace, Mirantis, Piston Cloud Computing as well as Red Hat—provide various forms of OpenStack-related training…

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