Microsoft has introduced a certification programme to train
hundreds of thousands of IT professionals in virtualisation
technologies.
Speaking to Computer Weekly earlier today at the
VM08 show at Earls Court,
Zane Adam, senior director at Microsoft responsible for
virtualisation, said, "For virtualisation to become mainstream we
need to train IT people in the best practices for managing both
virtual and physical systems."
He expected the training programme, which is being made
available as
Microsoft certified training courses, over the next 60 days,
will help IT directors manage complex datacentres.
The training programme is part of Microsoft's Dynamic IT
strategy, which stipulates the use of virtualisation in the
datacentre to enable IT managers to adapt and scale the performance
of datacentre applications, based on the demands of the business.
If the business needs more computing power, such as to support a
boost in traffic on the company's website, virtualisation can be
used to provision extra servers automatically.
Adam predicted IT departments would begin hiring datacentre
staff who understand virtualisation. He said the Microsoft training
scheme would help IT directors find staff with the right mix of
skills to support virtualisation and Dynamic IT.
The news comes as Steve Ballmer visits London, to announce the
availability of Microsoft's free
Hyper-V software.
