Red Hat intros cloud training

Red Hat aims to plug the hole in cloud computing certification through a new customisable training programme, which will equip IT professionals with actual cloud-building and management skills, said a company executive, reports ZDNet.

The Red Hat Certified Virtualisation Administrator certification is a hands-on course spread over four days, where participants will be taught to install and configure the Red Hat Virtualisation Manager.

Among other tasks, it is used to create data centres, manage hypervisor hosts, create storage and import installation media for creating new virtual machines.

Small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) are the focus of Verizon's latest pay-as-you-go cloud offering, computing-as-a-service SME, which the carrier unveiled recently, writes InformationWeek.

The service is geared at companies such as retailers, manufacturers, professional service firms, Web-based businesses, and application developers with limited IT resources or those that do not want to own or manage their IT infrastructure, Verizon says.

The carrier claims the service has built-in security, which includes virtual private networks, sets it apart from other available cloud offerings.

Storage software provider Novell has released Novell Cloud Manager, a cloud computing solution it says helps customers create private clouds over their existing data centre resources, states International Business Times.

Novell Cloud Manager is primarily designed for heterogeneous IT environments. It acts as an umbrella operating system that controls virtualised operating systems working on multiple hypervisors.

It currently supports hypervisors including VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and open source Xen operating systems, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Microsoft Windows server and Red Hat Enterprise.