Emerging Technologies Program Overview

There is no question that technology is ever changing and businesses must adapt to remain viable and productive. With this in mind, the IDCP offers a variety of certificate programs focusing on cutting edge, emerging technologies including Business Analytics, High Availability Storage Networking and Dynamic Infrastructure.

• High Availability Storage Networking

• Business Analytics

• Dynamic Infrastructure

High Availability Storage Networking

High Availability Storage Networking is a brand new technology (just released…literally in the past few months) that’s growing in popularity.  It combines a traditional network with a traditional SAN over 10Gb FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet). This Data Center Certificate in High Availability Storage Networking will bring you up to speed on the current trends, theory and practicality that goes along with implementing this new technology within your data center.  The courses within this certificate recap traditional networks, traditional SAN architecture, then move into High Availability Storage Networking utilizing Converged Networking Switches and Converged Networking Adapters. Be up-to-date with this emerging technology that will save your data center money in operational expenses (i.e. power consumption, manpower, and more).

Certificate in High Availability Storage Networking:

Prerequisites:

• Completion of the Data Center Associate Networking Certificate OR

• Completion of Internetworking (ITS 415) OR

• CCNA Certification

Required Courses:

• High Availability Storage Networking I - 4 credits

• High Availability Storage Networking II -4 credits

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Business Analytics

The field of business analytics has grown significantly over the last few years, providing business users with better insights from operational data stored in transactional systems. Business analytics stands today as one of the most strategically important fields in corporate information technology. Business analytics include data management, statistical and quantitative analysis, exploratory and predictive models, to drive decision making. Effective business analytics increases the quality of strategic and operative planning and reduces the time used for decision-making processes.  Executive analyze sales trends and customer purchase patterns to improve their marketing strategies and better target customers with product offers and advertising.   Gartner Group has identified business analytics as one of the top ten strategic technologies for 2010. According to Gartner, “the new step is to provide simulation, prediction, optimization and other analytics, not simply information, to empower even more decision flexibility at the time and place of every business process action. The new step looks into the future, predicting what can or will happen.”

Certificate in Business Analytics:

Required Courses:

• Business Intelligence - 3 credits

• Data Mining & Predictive Analytics - 3 credits

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Dynamic Infrastructure

With ever increasing expectations and fiscal pressure, data center and enterprise computing professionals must find innovative ways to improve service, cut costs, and manage risk.  This NEW two-course certificate in Dynamic Infrastructure addresses current operational challenges by integrating virtualization, energy efficiency, standardization and automation, freeing up operational resources for capital investment. The program will address alternative approaches such as cloud computing to deliver new services with agility and speed.

Courses:

• Introduction to Dynamic Infrastructure

• Virtualization and Cloud Computing - Under Development

Topics include:

• Information Infrastructure

• Service Management

• Asset Management

• Energy Efficiency

• Business Resiliency

• Security

• Virtualization

• Cloud Computing

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