by Simon Quicke2 October 2008
With the launch of Hyper-V under its belt Microsoft has
recognised that it needs to increase the amount of virtualisation training.
The vendor has announced plans to skill up thousands of
engineers through its certified professional programme as well as deliver a
series of virtualisation certifications.
In an interview with sister magazine Computer Weekly, Zane
Adam, senior director at Microsoft responsible for virtualisation, said,
"For virtualisation to become mainstream we need to train IT people in the
best practices for managing both virtual and physical systems."
The training is being introduced in the next couple of
months.
Earlier this year warnings were sounded that the lack of
virtualisation skills was holding back wider adoption of the technology.
Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, took a pop at VMware in his
address to partners in London
yesterday claiming that because it was expensive and not always compatible with
data centre environments only a fraction of servers had been virtualised.
