Dave Nelson

davenelson@vmware.com

The VMware IT Academy: What It Is All About

And Advantages To Education

2009 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

 Agenda

Introduction
Why Virtualization Is Important
VMwares Education Programs, Value Proposition & Benefits
VMware IT Academy Program, Offerings & Eligibility
Program Costs
Program Success Metrics
Support
Questions

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 Why Virtualization Is Important & The VMware IT Academy

Current Economy
Reduces Capital Expenses
Reduces Operational Expenses
Promotes Green IT
Enables Cloud Computing
Demand for VMware Certified Professionals
Over 1,500 schools and 10,000 students are using the eLearning part of
the IT Academy
Over 400 schools are participating in the Instructor Led part of the IT
Academy program and over 3,000 students have been trained and are
candidates to become a VMware Certified Professional
Why Virtualization Is Important Part Two

Tom Silver, senior VP and chief marketing officer for the

technology jobs Web site Dice.com, says that the total job
count for his site was down 12 percent from January 2008
through the first week of November. But for those with
virtualization experience, including both VMware and general
skills, available jobs increased by 43 percent and 37 percent,
respectively.

Source: http://virtualizationreview.com/features/print.aspx?editorialsid=2604
 Virtualization: Transformational Change in IT

Virtualization
Decouples software from
underlying hardware
Encapsulates Operating
Systems and applications
into Virtual Machines

A Virtual Machine

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 Virtual Infrastructure: Ten Years in the Making

Automated Resource

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Assurance Increased Availability On-Demand
Capacity
Dynamic Balancing Automated Non-disruptive Scaling
Continuous Optimization Across Applications Flexible, Reconfigurable

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