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Cisco, EMC Partner on Education for Big Data, Data Science

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http://www.thevarguy.com – Demand for IT pros with virtualization and networking skills is rising faster than businesses can find qualified employees. This reality is likely the impetus behind a partnership between Cisco Systems and EMC to step into the void and offer technical education solutions in the areas of cloud architecture, virtualization, storage, data center networking and data science. Read on for the details. The joint education solutions from Cisco and EMC, which also will incorporate courseware from VMware, will offer advanced training and certifications to build skills required to architect IT infrastruc (IT news)

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