In the next five years, IDC expects spending on IT cloud services to grow almost three-fold, reaching USD 42 billion by 2012 and accounting for 9 percent of revenues in five key market segments. Spending on cloud computing will accelerate throughout the forecast period, capturing 25 percent of IT spending growth in 2012 and nearly a third of growth the following year. This will automatically generate a demand for skilled cloud computing professionals and the training industry is responding to this demand. A leading training institute in India has just launched a cloud computing course that it is pitching to both existing IT professionals as well as those preparing for the industry.
“Cloud computing is now a critical aspect of IT, so we are targeting both the skilling market as well as the re-skilling market, and the later is fairly large, both within and outside India,” says Ninad Karpe, MD and CEO, Aptech Limited.
Aptech launched its Cloud Computing course here in early December and the course is being offered at three levels: Level 100, Level 200 and Level 300. It plans to introduce this course in Vietnam and other global training centers from January 2010.
Level 100 is the appreciation course (basic level) that offers an understanding of what is cloud computing. Level 300, the advanced level, touches upon cloud programming concepts such as C#, Python and Java. Aptech said it would offer placement assistance for the advanced level.
Training industry veteran Vijay Mukhi is actively involved in the course design, course validation as well as delivery for Aptech’s course.
Says Mukhi, “Our USP is that we show how to handle the growth of data using Hadoop. We teach people how to differentiate between high and peak loads. They will be shown how to handle petabytes of data, so when they later join an organization they know about the technologies that exist, and will be able to cope with data growth.”
According to Mukhi, students are shown technologies used by Internet cloud companies such as Yahoo, Google and Facebook.
“Since there are different cloud models and a lack of standards we thought this should be a neutral course that covers all cloud computing technologies. We are language agnostic and show how to code in different programming languages. We show them samples of code for the cloud,” informs Mukhi.
The interest in cloud computing is growing among IT professionals here in India and people are coming forward to pay for seminars and courses. Mukhi claims 38 people paid Rs 1,000 for a recent two-hour seminar on cloud computing.
“Cloud computing is now a critical aspect of IT, so we are targeting both the skilling market as well as the re-skilling market, and the later is fairly large, both within and outside India,” says Ninad Karpe, MD and CEO, Aptech Limited.
Aptech launched its Cloud Computing course here in early December and the course is being offered at three levels: Level 100, Level 200 and Level 300. It plans to introduce this course in Vietnam and other global training centers from January 2010.
Level 100 is the appreciation course (basic level) that offers an understanding of what is cloud computing. Level 300, the advanced level, touches upon cloud programming concepts such as C#, Python and Java. Aptech said it would offer placement assistance for the advanced level.
Training industry veteran Vijay Mukhi is actively involved in the course design, course validation as well as delivery for Aptech’s course.
Says Mukhi, “Our USP is that we show how to handle the growth of data using Hadoop. We teach people how to differentiate between high and peak loads. They will be shown how to handle petabytes of data, so when they later join an organization they know about the technologies that exist, and will be able to cope with data growth.”
According to Mukhi, students are shown technologies used by Internet cloud companies such as Yahoo, Google and Facebook.
“Since there are different cloud models and a lack of standards we thought this should be a neutral course that covers all cloud computing technologies. We are language agnostic and show how to code in different programming languages. We show them samples of code for the cloud,” informs Mukhi.
The interest in cloud computing is growing among IT professionals here in India and people are coming forward to pay for seminars and courses. Mukhi claims 38 people paid Rs 1,000 for a recent two-hour seminar on cloud computing.
