Information technology is on the move—to the cloud. Over 20 million businesses have adopted Microsoft cloud services, and the pace is accelerating. Stay ahead of the pack: make sure you have the skills you need to continue to be the IT professional your employer wants to keep and everyone else wants to hire.
You’ve already put time and effort into your career as an IT professional. Now it’s time to become a skilled cloud professional. Develop your expertise in one of these evolving job areas, with training and certification direct from the source.
As an IT administrator, you’ve probably specialized in a particular technology, such as Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, or Microsoft Lync. As a Microsoft Office 365 administrator, you’ll build on this expertise as you move from an on-premise deployment model to a public cloud model. You’ll need to develop your planning, design, and infrastructure skills to migrate, deploy, and administer a hosted Office 365 solution.
Microsoft Office 365: Connect and Collaborate Anywhere, Anytime
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As a developer of both cloud and hybrid software solutions, you’ll need to understand how applications are designed, developed, and deployed for platform as a service (PaaS). You’ll focus on innovation and integration, and you’ll work more closely with business units to help them increase productivity. Consider expanding your skills to include identity and access control, through Windows Communication Foundation, and HTML5, to provide richer websites without the need for third-party plug-ins.
Windows Azure Jump Start
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Microsoft private cloud solutions are built on Windows Server and System Center technology. As an administrator, you’ll move from a traditional data center to cloud optimized IT. As a Windows Server administrator, you’ll need to reposition your skills for the hosted data center, so that you can work in standardized environments, with standardized applications. You’ll be monitoring, provisioning, and managing the data center with Microsoft System Center.
Creating and Managing a Private Cloud with System Center 2012
Virtualization for IT Professionals
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As you move from your role as database administrator to a data professional or business intelligence (BI) expert in a cloud environment, you’ll need to be able to design and manage databases anywhere, as well as identify data, manage compliance, and deploy BI solutions. Being able to architect a cloud strategy and identify data to move to cloud storage will be important skills as you work with SQL Azure cloud-based relational database services built on Microsoft SQL Server technologies.
Introducing Microsoft SQL Server Code Name "Denali"
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