Armonk, New York,--IBM (NYSE: IBM) today launched a global initiative to educate clients skills, business partners, and university students how to use IBM business analytics and information management software, and many of the basic technologies of Watson, a computerized system for capturing information from new sources and creating business opportunities.
Skills initiative provides experts free access to 1200 on the site of the skills the client, the partner bootcamps and university places around the world, at 38 IBM innovation centres and online at DB2University. com.
The new initiative comes on the heels of IBM'S Jeopardy! Challenge, where IBM Watson demonstrated breakthrough system the ability to understand natural language using advanced technologies--many of the commercially available today, from IBM.
Businesses today are looking for prurazných technologies as Watson helped to capitalize on the increasing volume, variety and velocity information, which are known as "Big data". It includes a huge amount of public information, which are available on the Web site, the information generated by sensors, mobile devices, social networking, cloud computing and public sources of information which are not integrated into the existing company information management platform.
Sense of the large data requires a new set of skills, which many experts in the field of IT today. Bootcamps skills will cover topics such as large Data, analytics, data management and open source technologies, including the instruments for Hadoop, and Eclipse.
Other organizations are moving to IBM Software to support the initiatives of large data growth. In 2010, the choice of more than 1 000 customers Oracle database DB2. Clients are moving to IBM Software for solving the problems of large data, reduce the cost of managing data and shift resources investment growth. At the same time IBM has invested more than $ 14 billion to analytics acquisitions, has gathered 8,000 analytics consultants with industry expertise, and opened the network analytics centres of excellence around the world.
The American College helps students to address the big data challenge with Green it skills
In the Marist University, based in Poughkeepsie, New York, is a recognized leader of equip their students with the skills of green technologies, and, in turn, helps future employers to find new ways to reduce your carbon footprint. According to Roger Norton, Dean, school of computer science and mathematics proved Watson, a new standard for efficient computing system, that today's companies can benefit from the State more green energy. Capital data is a new challenge for the industry, and academia to rethink the way they see it. When Marist extends to its initiatives with IBM, offer more courses in DB2, BigInsights, and the analytics software to improve the use of the Data Center and analyze the unused data obtained from sources such as Facebook and sensors.
Western India Technical University prepares students for large power data
MGM College of Engineering and technology, in the Group MGM in Maharashtra, India, acknowledges that all companies face growing amounts of data and the challenge, it quickly turned into a competitive advantage. MGM launched recently in the area of workshops on DB2 their engineering students and teachers. Currently, more than 600 students and their teachers are certified and trained on the latest features of DB2 and other IBM technologies. In fact, MGM has recently migrated its technological laboratories from Oracle to DB2.
"IBM provides real world industry experience to students, to keep in contact with the newly emerging technologies and trends, such as the big Data," said Professor Nareshkumar Harale, head of computer science, MGM College of Engineering and technology. "When universities and businesses working together, creating a new generation of skilled information technology leaders to create new opportunities, fuel economic growth and resolve issues that can improve the way we live."
Green Tech company finds that it is easy for DBAs – Oracle skills to obtain DB2
Based in Sri Lanka, Haycarb, the manufacturer of the products of charcoal and a provider of solutions for cleaning, is in the process of deploying the leading solution for ERP. In the context of ongoing efforts to rein in and the energy costs associated with Haycarb recently participated in the IBM Bootcamp to learn skills on the migration capabilities of the software, database DB2.
"We had this idea that the transition from one database software to another should eat a lot of time, money, and resources. Instead of on the Web, to a course, IBM, he came to us, the adaptation of the course on the basis of our existing skills and builds on it, "said Chinthaka Abeykoon, head of it at Haycarb. "It is extremely important that the current information about these technologies, which address the challenges, such as the taming of the growing volumes of data and ensure the security of the database."
Business partners help Shape IBM skills initiative
IBM Business Partner Perficient plays a key role in working with IBM to create the content IBM skills Bootcamps. According to the management of Director Matt Castle are clients to their IT teams for solving the problems of large data. IBM investments to help you learn new skills in the field of IT helps clients to bridge the two worlds of Internet data and range of data collected in the framework of the Organization, the creation of a transparent view of all information. For example, firms are looking for social media to gain a better understanding of consumer preferences. At the same time that the information still needs saving, cleaned up and analyze the data warehouse.
"Firms have developed up to petabytes of information during the peak of operations, and they see an opportunity to use this data to gain new knowledge to its customers and get ahead of the competition," said Arvindem Krishna, General Manager of IBM Information Management. "Uncovering insights hidden between the data in existing IT systems and firewall in social networks, clouds and from mobile devices, today's professionals have new skills. As a result, we can expect more companies from Oracle on IBM software on big data opportunities and move the economy away from wasteful outlays for investment growth. Our goal this year is to help the 10 000 professionals, Oracle database, to extend their skills with IBM Software to achieve their business objectives more quickly. "
Under the new initiative of IT professionals and students hands on training:
* How to use InfoSphere software, Informix, DB2, Optim and Guardium to manage and integrate data flows across and within their organization
* "Big Data" leadership and analysis skills including data Federation, integration, and storage techniques using software for InfoSphere streams, BigInsights, inventory and Information Server
* Advanced skills such as planning, data management, data management, strategy, quality and safety
* Where to take advantage of free trials and testing has become a certified IBM software to support their career
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