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Join Intel® Partner Alliance today and gain access to Intel® Partner University – Cloud Fundamentals Competency training.

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Complex Cloud Dynamics Require Your Expertise

The Intel® Cloud Fundamentals Competency training is a series of easily digestible trainings designed to instill cloud industry and technology knowledge and build the competency needed to achieve a competitive advantage. After completing the 5.75 hour training series, you’ll be able to:

 

Articulate cloud industry fundamentals and business value.

Communicate the benefits of cloud orchestration and the Intel products supporting this technology.

Drive customer conversations around data analytics, software-defined networking, security and risk concepts, DevOps for cloud environments, and more.

 

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Go beyond the fundamentals, expand your career options, and tap into new opportunities with the Intel® Cloud Business Professional Competency and the Intel® Cloud Technical Professional Competency.

Intel® Cloud Business Professional Competency

The Intel® Cloud Business Professional Competency covers the intricacies of critical business topics, such as workload placement strategies, cloud architecture offerings, cloud financial operations, and pricing information.

  • Understand and address customers’ cloud needs with Intel-based solutions
  • Gain a deeper understanding of enterprise business requirements, the business case for cloud workloads, and cloud financial operations (FinOps)
  • Keep up with the fast-evolving cloud industry, help customers maximize the ROI on their cloud investments, and differentiate yourself from competitors

Intel® Cloud Technical Professional Competency

The Intel® Cloud Technical Professional Competency builds upon the Intel® Cloud Fundamentals Competency and delves into technical topics, including cloud security, cloud workloads, containers, orchestration, and relevant cloud instances.

  • Learn the specifics around building and operating a cloud infrastructure
  • Understand the functional components and technologies that make up various cloud solutions, the tools that help achieve the best configurations, and Intel’s unique technical benefits that bring the most value to the cloud
  • Take a deep dive into the most common datacenter workload solutions migrated to the cloud, the components and procedures for building containers, system configuration, advanced networking, and more

How to Enroll in the Intel® Partner Alliance

  1. Go to intelpartneralliance.intel.com/ and click Join now
  2. Enter your details and verify your email address, then create a password and accept the terms and conditions
  3. Once you receive the welcome email and sign in, you will be invited to join a community
  4. Select the option to add communities
  5. Choose Intel® Cloud Insider Partner as a Selected Community, and submit selections

How to Enroll in the Cloud Competencies

  1. Log into Intel® Partner University at https://partneruniversity.intel.com/
  2. Select Competencies
  3. Select the Data Center and Cloud category
  4. Choose View Details and Enroll to sign up for the course you would like to participate in

If you are not yet a member of Intel® Partner Alliance, you can join Cloud Insider Communities during the registration process (see previous tab for instructions).

If you are already a member of Intel® Partner Alliance:

  1. Click on your profile icon
  2. Select Profile, Program and Settings in the next menu to open your list of memberships
  3. Choose Intel® Partner Alliance
  4. Choose Community
  5. From the list of available communities, select Cloud Insider Communities

How Cloud Competencies Deliver Real-World Results

Increasing Sales and Professional Success at Ingram Micro

A newly hired business development manager at Ingram Micro used the Intel® Cloud Fundamentals Competency to increase solution sales and professional success. With the insights gained from the Competency, he was able to build knowledge of cloud technologies and its benefits, increase his confidence, add more value to his team, and grow solution sales by bringing a broader perspective to client conversations.

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Sell with More Confidence

Perry Szarka, a Data Center Solution Architect at Logicalis, used the Intel® Cloud Fundamentals Competency to learn about the benefits of Intel cloud technologies and help clients choose the best solutions for their business objectives. Thanks to the training, he is able to better sell and steer clients towards new opportunities.

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