by
Lisa Archer
| Mar 06, 2012
More than 60 guests at our U.K. luncheon today were keen to learn more about cloud phenomena, cloud best practices and trends and understand how CompTIA Cloud Essentials certification can help companies of all sizes.
Speakers at the event included Brant Seethaler of ITPreneurs, Ian Moyse, an industry authority on cloud security, and Andy Nickolls of SkillSoft.
John McGlinchey, vice president, Europe & Middle East, CompTIA, welcomed the group and explained that CompTIA Cloud Essentials certification, developed in cooperation with ITpreneurs, is ideally designed for both business and IT. In essence it covers a range of cloud computing principles and what is involved in moving to the cloud.
McGlinchey announced that two CompTIA partners, QA and Firebrand, added Cloud Essentials to their portfolio today with many more partners expected to follow as the cloud computing trends continues to accelerate at an incredible pace.
Great Cloud Statistics Shared:
- More than 12,000 jobs are now open in the U.K. and U.S. that involve cloud computing (per Indeed.com). As more users adopt cloud, the demand for workers with cloud computing knowledge grows incrementally.
- The mobile cloud-based application market expected to reach $9.5 billion by 2014, according to Gartner Research.
- 8 in 10 HR professionals say IT certifications will grow in importance over the next two years, according to CompTIA’s market research.
- 72 percent of organizations feel more positive about cloud computing than they did one year ago, and 56 percent of business end-users plan to increase their cloud investments by 10 percent or more over the next 12 months, according to CompTIA’s market research.