Breaking News: Free Private Cloud “Jump Start” Training

Microsoft has just scheduled a FREE 2-day training course entitled “Creating and Managing a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 Jump Start” , happening on February 21st-22nd, 2012 from 9:00am to 5:00pm PST

Jump Start Training

Adopting this exciting new computing paradigm provides a whole new landscape of technology and career direction for IT professionals. Microsoft Learning and the Microsoft System Center 2012 team have partnered to bring you an exciting opportunity to learn what you need to know to deploy, manage and maintain Microsoft’s private cloud solution. Leveraging the popular Jump Start virtual classroom approach, the industry’s most gifted cloud experts will show attendees why this new private cloud solution, based on System Center 2012 and Windows Server, has garnered so much attention. Here are the details:

  • Course: “Creating and Managing a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 Jump Start”
  • Date/Time: February 21-22, 2012 from 9:00am – 5:00pm PST
  • Where: Live virtual classroom (online from wherever you are)
  • Cost: FREE!
  • Target audience: IT Professionals (IT Implementers, managers, decision makers)

“What’s a ‘Jump Start’ course?”

From the registration page:

“Training specifically designed for experienced technologists whose jobs demand they know how to best leverage new, emerging Microsoft technologies. These advanced courses assume a certain level of expertise and domain knowledge, so they move quickly and cover topics in a fashion that enables teams to effectively map new skills to real-world situations.”

“And.. did you say ‘FREE’?”

Yes, I did. 

“Is there anything I can do to get ready for this?

Download and install the System Center 2012 evaluation software: https://aka.ms/PvtCld

Then go to this page for course details, schedule, speakers, registration link, and fabulous prizes.

“Huh? Prizes?”

Not really.  I was just seeing if you were still paying attention.