Level Up Your Career with the Intel® Cloud Technical Professional Competency
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Advance Your Career with Technical Cloud Skills
Cloud computing is currently the most sought-after skill and other cloud skills – such as cybersecurity and cloud migration – will be among the most in-demand digital skills by 2025. Fortunately, you can prepare for this cloud-first future with focused cloud trainings from Intel® Partner University, such as the Intel® Cloud Technical Professional Competency.
- Acquire deeper technical cloud competency and proficiency through hands-on learning across a range of cloud technologies
- Understand the tools, components, and technologies that achieve the best configurations, as well as the Intel technologies that drive them
- Generate more value for your cloud investment by understanding and optimizing for Intel based technology
- Gain in-demand cloud skills and position yourself for success in the rapidly expanding cloud market
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Advance Your Career with Technical Cloud Skills
Increase in job postings from 2017-2020 (and even more after the pandemic)¹
Of IT leaders plan to expand their software engineering and cloud environments¹
Say that inadequate employee skills are holding them back¹
Gain In-Demand Technical Cloud Skills at No Cost*
Take the next step in your cloud career with the Intel® Cloud Technical Professional Competency. Level up your cloud skills, add more value to your business, and deliver more modern, innovative solutions to your customers.
- Explore critical cloud topics such as cloud security, cloud workloads, containers, orchestration, and relevant cloud instances
- Delve deeper into cloud computing, cloud solutions’ functional components and technologies, and tools that help achieve the best configurations
- Discover the unique technical benefits that Intel’s solutions bring to the cloud
Expand Your Cloud Expertise and Dive Deeper Into Cloud Computing
Expand Your Cloud Expertise and Dive Deeper Into Cloud Computing
- Configure a system and gather information from different tools
- Examine several top enterprise workloads that can help customers resolve key business challenges
- Understand packet processing and networks in cloud-era data centers and network migration in a multi-cloud environment
- Grasp cloud computing security concepts and learn current industry best practices
- Demonstrate how cloud instances vary by CSP and workload category
- Gain in-demand cloud skills, add more business value, and improve your career prospects
- Dive Deeper with Cloud
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Expand your cloud skills, gain deeper insights into the business side of the cloud industry, and add more value to customers with the Intel® Cloud Fundamentals Competency and the Intel® Cloud Business 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 Fundamentals Competency
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
How to Enroll in the Intel® Partner Alliance
- Go to intelpartneralliance.intel.com/ and click Join now
- Enter your details and verify your email address, then create a password and accept the terms and conditions
- Once you receive the welcome email and sign in, you will be invited to join a community
- Select the option to add communities
- Choose Intel® Cloud Insider Partner as a Selected Community, and submit selections
How to Enroll in the Cloud Competencies
- Log into Intel® Partner University at https://partneruniversity.intel.com/
- Select Competencies
- Select the Data Center and Cloud category
- 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:
- Click on your profile icon
- Select Profile, Program and Settings in the next menu to open your list of memberships
- Choose Intel® Partner Alliance
- Choose Community
- 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.
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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