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How Much Does IT Certifications Cost?

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How Much Does IT Certifications Cost?

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In this article, I am going to share the most common IT certification with their exam cost. When we plan to do a certification, the first thing that comes into one’s mind is “how much does this IT certification cost?” Agree or not ? 

So, let’s start without wasting any more time. 

First, we will talk about Cisco Certifications. 

How much does Cisco exams cost? 

Cisco Certifications are divided into 5 levels- 

  • Entry level 
  • Associate Level 
  • Specialist Level 
  • Professional Level 
  • Expert Level 


Cisco Entry level Certifications with their exam cost 

 

Cisco Certifications  Cost 
CCT Collaboration  125 USD 
CCT Data Center  125 USD 
CCT Routing and Switching  125 USD 

 

Cisco Associate level Certifications with their exam cost 

  

Cisco Certifications  Cost 
CyberOps Associate  300 USD 
DevNet Associate  300 USD 
CCNA  300 USD 

Cisco Professional level certifications with their exam cost 

 All professional level certifications have two exams- core exam and concentration exam. The Core exam is mandatory, there is no choice. While there are multiple concentration exams, you can choose one of them, according to your interest. Now come to the CCNP certification cost, for the core exam, you have to pay 400 USD and for the concentration exam, you have to pay 300 USD.   

Cisco Professional Certificates- 
  • CCNP Collaboration 
  • CyberOps Professional 
  • CCNP Data Center 
  • DevNet Professional 
  • CCNP Security 
  • CCNP Service provider 
Cisco Expert Level Certifications with their exam cost 

 In CCIE certification, there are 2 exams. One is a core exam and another is  a lab exam. The Core exam cost is around 400 USD and the lab exam cost is around 1600 USD.

Cisco Expert Certifications are- 

  • CCIE Collaboration 
  • CCIE Data Center 
  • CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure 
  • CCIE Enterprise Wireless 
  • CCIE Security 
  • CCIE Service Provider 

How Much Does aws Exams Cost? 

Aws certification cost lies between 100 USD-300 USD. Exam cost varies with certification level, if you want to give an entry-level or associate-level exam then you have to pay around 100-150 USD. If you want to go for a professional or a specialty level certification then you will have to pay 300 USD. Azure and Aws both are the best cloud service platforms. As we all know, cloud computing demand is increasing day by day, so if you do Aws training or Azure training then it will be a good investment and you will get good returns in the future (highly paid job). Associate level certification is for beginners who want to become cloud engineers or people who have 1-2 years of experience. 

 

AWS Associate Level Certification with their exam cost 

 

AWS Certification  Cost 
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner  100 USD 
AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Associate  150 USD 
AWS Certified Developer Associate  150 USD 
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate  150 USD 

 

AWS Professional Certification with their exam cost 

 

AWS Certification  Cost 
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional  300 USD 
AWS Certified Solution Architect  300 USD 

 

AWS Speciality Certification with their exam cost 

 

AWS Certifications  Cost 
AWS Certified Advanced Networking Speciality  300 USD 
AWS Certified Data Analytics  300 USD 
AWS Certified Database  300 USD 
AWS Certified Machine Learning  300 USD 
AWS Certified Security  300 USD 

 

How much does CompTIA exams cost?

CompTIA certifications are divided into 4 categories- named as core series certifications, Infrastructure series certifications, Cybersecurity series and professional certifications. There is no prerequisite for core and infrastructure series certification. 

 All these are entry-level certifications, if you want to start your career in the IT field, then you can go for these certifications. Having a certification, or CompTIA professional training adds value to your resume, for fresher chances of getting hired are more, experienced IT professionals can expect a salary hike after certification. Certification validates your skills. 

CompTIA Core Series Certification with their exam cost 

CompTIA Certification  Cost 
CompTIA IT Fundamentals  126 USD 
CompTIA A+  232 USD 
CompTIA Network+  338 USD 
CompTIA Security+  370 USD 

 

CompTIA Infrastructure Series Certification with their exam cost 

CompTIA Certification  Cost 
CompTIA Cloud+  338 USD 
CompTIA Linux+  338 USD 
CompTIA Server+  338 USD 

 

CompTIA CyberSecurity Series Certifications with their exam cost 

 

CompTIA Certification  Cost 
CompTIA CSA+  370 USD 
CompTIA PenTest+  370 USD 
CompTIA CASP  466 USD 

 

CompTIA Professional Series Certifications with their Exam Cost :

 

CompTIA Certification  Cost 
CompTIA CTT+  338 USD 
CompTIA Cloud Essentials  126 USD 
CompTIA Project+  338 USD 

 

How much does Microsoft Certification cost? 

Microsoft Certifications are divided into 3 levels named as beginner level, intermediate and advanced level. Microsoft certification cost varies with exam level, beginner level certification exam cost is 99 USD, while most intermediate and advanced level exam cost is 165 USD. So, you can see Microsoft certifications are cheaper than other vendor certifications. 

You can also get a 100% discount on Microsoft fundamental certification. To get 100% discount, you have to attend live training on Microsoft portal, after completing this training, you will be eligible for 100% discount. The training duration is around 4 hrs. First, register yourself on Microsoft learning portal for training, attend the training, after 2 days of training completion, you will get a mail, schedule your exam. One thing to keep in mind, schedule your exam with the same email Id that you used at the time of training registration.  

Microsoft Beginner Level Certification/ Fundamental certification with their exam cost 

 

Microsoft Certifications  Cost 
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamental  99 USD 
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamental  99 USD 
Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamental  99 USD 
Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance and Identity Fundamentals  99 USD 

 

Microsoft Intermediate level Certification with their exam cost 

 

Microsoft Certifications  Cost 
Microsoft certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate  165 USD 
Microsoft certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate  165 USD 
Microsoft certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate  165 USD 
Microsoft certified: Azure administrator Associate  165 USD 
Microsoft certified: Azure Virtual Desktop Speciality  165 USD 
Microsoft certified: Azure developer Associate  165 USD 

 

Microsoft Advanced level Certification with their exam cost 

 

Microsoft Certifications  Cost 
Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert  165 USD 
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solution Architect Expert  165 USD 
Microsoft Certified Educator  127 USD 

 

 

 

COVID-19 Leaves Industries Impacted: 5 Industries That Will Survive 2021 with Prosperity

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COVID-19 Leaves Industries Impacted: 5 Industries That Will Survive 2021 with Prosperity

Exploring how Covid-19 is killing not only people but careers is becoming the need of the hour. The consequences are starting to feel much similar to what the 2008 recession looked like. COVID-19 is definitely worse than just flu. We must understand that it doesn’t only impact the health stability of the world, but the economic stability is in jeopardy as well.

Let’s explore how this deadly virus has impacted the world of networking. As per the research of one of the leading global brands in the field of network devices, Nokia published that within a few days, the internet usage increased from 20-40%. The networks that we function on are ready to see and adhere to the increase of 30-45% within a year, instead of days.

The question is that within an industry where backend maintenance is of utmost importance, will the Work from Home agenda and lifestyle work or will take the internet down globally?

This factually became a point of concern for the Vice President of Cisco. While he issued the statement that looking at the increased traffic, the networks across the globe seem to be handling it pretty well, he still continues to monitor the impact of COVID-19 on the global networks.

The areas that are using maximum of the data and affecting networks are:

  • Online Gamers
  • Work-From-Home Individuals
  • Schools and Colleges
  • High-resolution Video Streaming
  • Teleworkers

All of these users and more have increased the number of times they are now relying on networks and the internet to get through the day. The constant usage of the networks has increased the network impact by more than 10% higher growth as compared to the expected rate.

Wollenweber explained by that a single network in Italy, one of the first countries to enter a complete shutdown, Telecom Italia, saw a 70% spike in usage on its fixed network. While these changes have happened at a similar level in the rest of the world as well, with China returning to normalcy, the average however was gradually slowed down.

Yet, the focus now that we have, globally is to prepare for such emergency situations. Global networks like Cisco and more are looking to expand their horizons as to how they function and serve to the new arriving traffic.

Taking a look at the individual application growth rates and how they increased the way that networks adhere to their requirements, Nokia did an extensive research.

According to Nokia, WhatsApp usage spike from 117-217% within the first day of the global lockdown. While it continues to grow with multiple news articles and videos forwarded through WhatsApp daily, the networks seemingly, are performing very well.

Also, the usage of Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hotstar also increased multifolds. This increased the streaming of high definition videos. YouTube has by far been the platform most used for streaming high-definition videos whilst YouTube also provides for the standard definition processing which in turn helps the networks well.

The usage of network data for all purposes including professional and entertainment have impacted the usage of networks immensely.

LET’S SEE IF THE NETWORKING JOBS ARE NOW SECURE?

Job Placements Held back.The job sector has taken a blow. The leading institutes in India such as ISB and IIMs under management, Maximum IITs as well under technology have not seen the campus placements take the spike, they usually do this time of the year. Organizations have put back more than 200 job offers single handily putting the job sector in jeopardy.

Flipkart to honour job offers without any salary deductions. While amidst all this negativity, a ray of hope shone when Flipkart put out a release that all job offers will be honoured and no pay-cuts will be imposed on Flipkart employees. This arena remains unexplored for maximum and major organizations.

India handled traffic growth well. Among the Indian organizations that have handled the situation and traffic well, we honour a few such as Airtel, Vodafone, Den Networks and more.

Rising Demand for Network Usage.With the above data however, I feel it is safe to conclude that networking jobs are very well secure. With repeatedly increasing users of the networks and traffic rising every day, the requirement for personnel among networks is bound to rise, rather than reduce. We are definite and positive that the demand is increasing.

Smooth Transition of Networks. It is undoubted that the networks have handled the increased traffic smoothly within a matter of days with the help of their personnel. The jobs are undoubtedly secure without any foreseeable pay-cuts.

Requirements of the Networks to Increase among Profits.In fact, we expect the jobs among the networking organizations to rise higher than expected initially. Doesn’t this sound assuring as a network engineer or an architect? Doesn’t this calm your horses down in regards with your career?

We encourage you to strengthen your portfolio as a networking professional for the requirement is bound to shoot high. The revenues and resultingly, the salaries are bound to rise too.

Network Kings Brings the Best Career Oriented Courses You Need in 2021

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Experts have been training students and aspirants for years now, yet professionals continue to fail time after time, identifying the correct direction and the correct field of knowledge required for them to acquire forthwith.

Not too long ago, even I had the major dilemma as to what exactly I needed to move into the right direction for my career. It took me a little while to realise what I needed to learn and the skills that I was lacking as to achieve the goals I had in my mind.

The only thing that helped me understand what the right direction is, was through the experience of professionals who knew what the industry was all about and understood it well enough through their experiences.

Let’s take a look at the 10 major courses that can help you grow your career, pivot if you need to and find the right direction. The reason why we need to continue to engage ourselves in these courses is because similar to medicine, even technology is a world that changes continuously today. If you lag behind, there is no recovering from the loss you incur.

  1. Beginner Programs

Let us explore the courses best suitable for you if you happen to be a fresher. The most common mistake that professional make today with an abundance of knowledge available, is that they misidentify the courses they need to invest their time in.

As a fresher, if you end up enrolling yourself for a course that the industry accepts only for experienced professionals, you end up doing nothing but wasting your resources.

Therefore, it is important to identify the correct courses for yourself.

  1. Cisco Networking Basic Specialization

Now, as a technology student, I should assume that you are most definitely pursuing a bachelor’s in technology currently. While that is the basic education threshold for you, it is important to understand the basics of the specialization you are trying to pursue as well.

A bachelor’s in tech would simply provide the knowledge required for the vast field of technology. Once a student identifies the field that they wish to proceed in, understanding every detail of the field is equally important. This course provides exactly that knowledge.

Leading companies like Google provide the most basic and important courses for the knowledge that a fresher or beginner might need while stepping into networking. While that serves as a perfect steppingstone for a lot of people, most students find it difficult to pay such high fees and end up not gaining the knowledge at all.

This is where is comes in necessary for student to pursue these courses with the help of the training platforms who train through the experiences personnel of the industry to provide the best possible knowledge, however still, offer the same curriculum at affordable prices and fee structures.

This makes it possible for the aspirants who do not have proper financial support for their education, to be able to enrol for these courses and attain the necessary education.

  • Computer Network Courses

Computer network courses most often include the curriculum necessary to understand the specifications behind the computer networks. The most basic courses are available with the names that are easy to understand and adapt for freshers. The name of the course merely clarifies to the student, what they would reap by investing in a certain course. While the curriculum is quite advanced in these courses such as Phase 1 by Network Kings, which clearly suggests that it’s the very first step to take to build a career in networking, it is important to understand that all necessary details will be taught during the sessions.

  • Introduction to Computer Networking

Introduction to Computer Networking is a field of courses which has a vast curriculum designed by the experts and is taught by a number of training platforms. Students in fact may find these articulated by different names at different training platforms, however, it still makes the course to remain the same.

No training platforms ever ignore the very basics of the trainings required. The introduction to computer networking is an umbrella of courses that surfs through anything and everything necessary for a career in networking.

  • Networking courses by Cisco

Cisco has by far, been proven the best ever networking organization across the world. Leading the market as such in the field of networking, cisco has conquered the platform with its outstanding approach to other networking organization as well. From devices to services, Cisco has not left anything behind.

Yet, similar to Google, students also find it hard to be able to pay for the Cisco training services.

As the Cisco curriculum is the best and widely accepted so far, the training platforms worldwide have taken upon themselves to provide the exact same curriculum to the students as acceptable fee prices.

  • Intermediate and Advanced Programs

Experienced professionals are expected to have the most basic of the knowledge of the field that they are associated with. That is the reason why for experienced professionals, there is a whole separate set of courses which helps the aspirants grow faster and reach higher for the sky instead of staying stagnant.

Let’s take a look at what is best suited for the networking professionals as of today, in the times of 2020.

  1. CCNP R&S and Security

CCNP or Cisco Certified Networking Professional is a curriculum designed by Cisco itself for the understanding of how Cisco networks and devices function. The most important aspect of this training is to learn about securing networks. As a fresher, the industry would expect merely the understanding of creating and deploying networks while as an experienced professionals, the expectations rise. Being able to secure those networks are of utmost importance to organizations. That is what CCNP entails for an aspirant network engineer. While one is bound to learn these details eventually with experience anyhow, companies across the industry appreciate those who go out of their way to learn these aspects even before the industry itself presents the opportunity with higher packages.

  • CCIE Enterprise and Security

CCIE is also a Cisco presented curriculum with, as it suggests, is an integrated course which provides the knowledge of all cisco network enterprise and security information. While a lot of training platforms today provide the training for CCIE at much better prices than Cisco themselves, hardly do they ever share with their students that as a fresher, this course holds no credibility in the industry.

In fact, a student holding the qualification of CCIE as a fresher on their resume, would rather be considered as too eager by the industry instead of what the students usually expect.

The curriculum of this course is designed as such that it is best suited to be attained only by experienced professionals.

  • CompTIA Networking+

When the basics are covered and understood through the education and experience, the professionals are required to reach the next level.

This can be done by identifying the next step.

CompTIA Networking+ is a course that provides the advanced knowledge required for any network engineer to move onto the next level in their career.

The reason behind this is that this course provides the advance level knowledge which is also not suitable for a fresher. As it is, the industry would definitely frown upon that, apart from that the knowledge would also not be understood by a fresher well.

  • Certified Ethical Hacker

A certified ethical hacker, as it suggests, is bound to learn how to hack into systems. However, the purpose of this course is not to hack into the systems of others but to protect their own. A company providing networking solutions is bound to get hacked into from time to time by competitors or others.

The advantage and requirement here are to prevent their own systems from getting hacked into.

This is the best possible course to understand all that one needs to, to be able to prevent the network systems from getting hacked into.

  • F5 Technology Specialist

F5, similar to Checkpoint and Palo Alto, is a Firewall training which comes as a next step for networking professionals.

Explore more of such courses at https://nwkings.com/s/store/courses

4 Reasons you are running behind in your career & how you can change that.

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Reasons you are running behind in your career how you can change it?

The online training platform for networking trainings, Network Kings, is here to help you attain jobs in the market and prepare you for the challenges ahead that you might face in your fight for the industry you wish to thrive in.

Network Kings has a pool and bundles of courses like CCNA – Cisco Certified Network Associate, MCSA – Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate, Linux, Palo Alto, Checkpoint Firewall, F5, ASA Firewall and more to support your learning and grow your career prospects in the tech industry.

Network King is soon launching with job-oriented courses for the cloud with a Master Cloud Program including a combination of AWS, Azure and Google cloud, all under one roof to enhance your career in the field of cloud engineering.

Just like many of our students, we understand how rapidly the industry is growing and wish to adhere to all the points on a graph for tech growth. Since all of our trainers are also acutely and deeply associated with leading IT organizations as a part of their employees, we gain in-depth and the ground level knowledge of what happens in the field of tech, today. That has helped us build and bind trainings for you which make you wonderfully job ready!

Career is the point of attention for you and we acknowledge that! You can attain the in-depth understanding of skills through our renowned and experienced faculty. In fact, you can also grow your personality with our grooming instructors; you are Corporate Ready!

  1. You don’t know your path yet.

    Here’s what Network Kings does: We build your path!

We take the liberty to help you and build you a standard path which outlines the guide way for you to walk on and build your personality along with your technical skills. For any organization today, having a multi-tasker is a wonderful asset as their employee role. We ensure that we train you in every aspect desirable.

With most of our courses, you receive the basic understanding of communication skills and presentability as you learn from industry professionals. Their experiences have proved to teach more to students than what a mere text format of theoretical learning can teach them.

Your pathway towards a Job

  • Enrol for certification
  • Complete Training
  • Personality Grooming
  • CV Building
  • Mock Interviews
  • Ready to kickstart your career

In fact, we also offer combinations of courses wherein you are entitled to detailed learning for personality grooming and CV building as well. For the students who might find themselves in such needs, we also offer them with resume writers who then help them in creating their resumes.

We know that the industry is fast-changing, yet it takes a long time for new trends to emerge and be accepted in the market. We hold the audacity and courage to one of those changers. In the times where most trainers and students are looking for ways to be able to climb up the ladder as quickly as possible simply on the basis of their certificates, we intend to build your personality with a strength that doesn’t leave you hanging dry once you get into the industry and find yourselves unable to deliver project requirements.

  • You don’t understand your priorities yet.

    Here’s what Network Kings does: Your Job is our Priority

We intend to build our students’ careers, not only kickstart the engine but also enable them to go for a long way. With that intention, we introduce the concept of 50% job guarantee!

What do we mean by 50% Job Guarantee?

Job guarantee is a combination of efforts that brings you to convert your skills into job prospects.

We walk towards you with the trainings and certifications, whilst you walk ahead towards your job goals.

So how about changing the relationship and terminologies from a guaranteed package while compromising on quality?

Let’s get to the best available opportunities and work on ourselves together and get to the best packages on our own capabilities.

  • You Need an Experienced Mentor.

    Here’s what Network Kings does: Your Prospects are the Sunshine

It is important to know for a candidate, where he or she might stand once they put in all their efforts to learn an entirely new skill and get certified with expensive and rigorous trainings. We know that you are inquisitive and anxious. To calm that anxiety of a fresher stepping into the world or an experienced engineer nervous to move ahead as soon as possible, in his or her career, we provide you the answers to your questions. You can find the prospective job titles that you may take up in your career below.

Career Prospects

  • Level 0: Support Engineer
  • Level 1: Support Engineer
  • Support Engineer
  • Network Administrator
  • Senior Analyst
  • IT Manager
  • General IT and IMS

You can also find out more about this in detail or try and build your career as your desired designation, with the help of our guidance counsellors available 24*7 on our support helpline. The details for the helpline can be found under our contact details on the website as well.

  • You don’t know who to seek help from.

    Here’s what Network Kings does: You are in Good Hands!

What do you gain with us?

  • Practical Learning
  • English Speaking
  • Communication Skills
  • Interview Grooming
  • Job Ready

We hope that you can well decide what is best for you, however, if you ever find yourselves in a situation where you can’t, we are always behind you, having your back.

Interview Tips for Freshers: How to Ace Your Interview While Switching a Job

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Don’t you wish someone would tell you how to nail the job interview you are appearing for? How easy would it be if someone told you clearly, how to easily nail your job interview? Well, now there is. With over a 100 job interviews that I have reviewed and about a 30 interviews that I have appeared for myself, it is safe to say to that I can clearly help you with how you can make sure you nail the job interview.

Making a great impression on your interviewer will be a cakewalk with these FIVE steps. Understanding the art of nailing an interview is the surety of landing every job you set your eyes on. I understand that in most cases, just reaching the PI level can be tough. While the initial steps of an application process involve the requirement of skills deeply related to the job role you are appearing for, such as the Aptitude test and the Group Discussion round, most people who reach a PI fail at the final step. This is both heart-breaking and negative for your career.

Well, there is no need to worry. Here are the most basic yet often ignored FIVE steps to nailing your job interview.

  1. Know the organization you’re interviewing for.

A huge number of interviewees often forget or ignore this step. Making sure that you get selected for an organization is way more than just acquiring the skills. In a world where everything is interconnected, one can never neglect the fact that a backend job like tele-calling or database management can also require top of the notch communication skills.

The organization has only one way of knowing that you are devoted to them and care about what the organizational needs are, and that is through finding out whether or not you understand what the nature of the organization is. How they can ensure that you are a good fit for them is through questioning whether you know them or not.

There is no need to freak out at this point though. They do not expect you to understand the inner workings of the organization or the work culture. The basic requirement on their minds is that you understand or are at least familiar with what the basic product or service of the organization is, you know what their website looks like and understand what the organization needs from you when you become a part of their community.

  • Stand apart from your resume.

The first question that a PI interviewer usually proceeds with is to understand whether the candidate knows so much as themselves. It’s a reliable saying, that one who can’t sell themselves has no business selling anything else. You are a product by yourself whilst in a job interview. The product being you and the seller being you, this should come off as a cakewalk. Yet, many fail because they simply do not know themselves. Worse yet, they do not understand how to portray themselves. Well, no more.

Here I am, telling you that selling yourself is by far the easiest tasks to do. The most common mistake that a candidate would make is letting their resume reek of their personality. Resumes are like advertisement slogans. They do let the viewer know what they are looking at but not understand it fully. After all, if the slogan gives everything away, why would a viewer sit through the whole commercial anyway.

You need to let the interviewer get to know you beyond your resume. My advice? Always answer that question with the statement “Apart from my resume….” Highlighting the core characteristics of your personality such as the things you define yourself with, whether it is that you love coffee or are a vegan.

Your hobbies play a huge role in letting the interviewer know whether you are serious about growth or not, too.

  • Give examples and increase your credibility.

It is the interviewer’s job to interview people day in and day out. Would it come as a surprise to you if they were able to tell your lies apart from the truth? Not at all. They are well accustomed to reading faces as much as they can read your resume. The first question as soon as you say ‘Yes’ to something is going to be requesting for an incident to support your affirmation.

Let’s say that I let my interviewer know that I am a traveller while the last time I travelled was back in my sixth grade, would you even trust me? I wouldn’t trust myself with that my friend, let along my interviewer.

All he or she cares about is if they will be able to get the work done by me or not. These questions about you are not for them to dwell into a chit chat with you. Neither do they have any interest in going out for a walk with you. All they care for is understanding the type of person you are, professionally.

Now, in the same example, if I was to say that I am a traveller and am able to support the statement with more than five trips that I took in the previous year itself, that makes me a reliable individual.

The bottom line is, make yourself reliable and your statements trustworthy with incidents to support them.

Don’t be afraid to say no when that answer is negative. All they would appreciate in that case is your honesty. Your lack of ability for one particular thing is of no concern to them. They would honour your acceptance of yourself than focus on the qualities you don’t possess.

  • Eye contact with your interviewer goes a long way.

Once you reach the personal interview round, you are no more just a candidate out of a hundred or thousand. You are now a potential member of their community. Today, the communication skills are not limited to the way you speak. Your body language plays a huge role in your interview. While it is important to make eye contact, it is equally important not to forget the rest of the panellists.

It is natural to get dwelled into a conversation with the one person on the panel who is speaking to you at the moment, while it is crucial that you remember the others. This portrays how serious you are about the job and the company more than ever.

It is important you make each of the panellists feel important, just the way you would want to feel important amongst each of them. Imagine if one of the panellists only cared about demoralising you, wouldn’t you develop a disliking towards them? This works vice versa too. Unlike your opinion however, their opinion about you matters. So, make sure you help each of the panellists feel heard and answer the questions to the point. Don’t beat around the bush. Don’t simply fall prey to the confusing points of the interview they may create for you.

Making an eye contact develops a brief relationship with your interviewer. Help your interviewer feel significant as you would wish for yourself.

  • FINALLY, BE A CLOSER!

Have you ever felt like once you are done, you don’t know how to let the listener know that you are done speaking? Well, that is one skill highly crucial for the interview sessions. You know how the person who knows how to end a conversation can actually lead the conversation? When I let my listener know that I am done speaking, they are not confused anymore and are completely satisfied. Sticking to the topic and being a closer, helps you not over-share.

Sharing too much in fact, can actually land you into trouble at times. When you share too much, you leave room for more questioning. However, when you are a closer, you know when to end and the interviewer knows that you have mental clarity about yourself and your ambitions.

Being a closer can help you dictate your own interview instead of leaving that up to the interviewer.

Picture this that when you ask me how my weekend went; I tell you that it was good. It leaves room for you to ask me what I did, who I met, what I ate, which club I went to, what kind of friends I have, if I have a boyfriend/girlfriend and so on. While it comes off as a great gesture that you would want to know more about me, it might leave me in an uncomfortable position. Instead if I simply told you that I had a great weekend, I spent it with a bunch of friends hanging out at my apartment watching movies of Drew Barrymore and having pizza; it provides the basic yet detailed information which leaves you either saying that’s great or sharing your own weekend events. This way I could simply dictate how much I wanted to share and closed my end of the conversation.

I hope you can remember to make the best impression the next time you walk in for a job interview and wish you all the very best to leave them astounded!

This is how you can take the next step in your career & become a high paid manager in IT

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How to Become a High Paid Manager in IT?

Being a manager can seem a relatively easy task yet takes a lot of the new managers by surprise. Managers have been known to fail time after time, ending up asking the question about what they are potentially doing wrong.

Like many other, even being a manager in technology is a role that takes a lot of experience and mistakes to learn the best ways and practices. However, while trial and error method can be the best teacher for all mistakes, the time taken to understand the mistakes by a manager can hamper the clients’ quality time as well as money.

No wonder that even though trial and error can be extremely helpful in realizing and rectifying mistakes, a little extra help can do no hard. Seeing the people in my first organization ever, struggle with the simplest things such as writing an email triggered me to find out more about how managers feel the overwhelm where they end up not knowing how to approach situations. Sitting behind screens and solving technical problems are their fortes. There is no doubt about that. While dealing with and leading people can be an entirely different story.

  1. Upgrade Your Skills with Certifications.

Many a leadership teams now have the resources as well as the potential to build learning and development teams so as to provide the trainings that their employees might need to bridge the gap between where they are and the role they are required to fulfil.

Among these trainings, can be your initiative to make yourself learn more about what you don’t already know. Training can be the easiest way to learn something. While people with jobs hesitate in taking up new courses and trainings, being able to train during the work hours is a wonderful solution which almost all major corporations now invest in.

They understand that a few hours of training provided to their employees can result in reduced mistakes and better understanding, benefitting the organization in the long run.

That is most precisely where your role is to realize that you lack a skill and must be willing to learn. While your organization can very well provide the resources for you to do so, showing up to learn something is on you.

  • Value Your People More Than The Tasks.

Even though the opposite is exactly what your organization needs you to, the question to be wondered upon here is what the big picture is. The big picture remains to achieve the goals of the organization.

If given a task, your company and leadership would be less than bothered about how the goals have been achieved.

That being said, your team shall only understand that once they feel valued by you. Feeling valued by the organization is a translation of by far being valued by you itself.

Once your team feels that you value them, you understand their goals and personal requirements and are willing to go the distance to help them achieve those, their dedication changes from their personal goals to those of yours.

The managers’ task is basically to align their own interests with that of the organization since the team members who are dedicated to their managers will then automatically work towards achieving the goals of the organization.

  • Lead. Don’t Manage.

Even though being a manager brings power, well, so does responsibility. Being a manager is a step-up when looked at with the perspective of designation. While considering the responsibilities, it makes a manager a servant to both parties: their team as well as the organization.

No surprise to the fact that the organization already had you working for them as per what they needed, but now you are in fact responsible for what your team needs as well.

Simply meeting the goals and achieving the targets is not enough anymore. No matter the number of people on your team, each of them needs to be valued, understood and given the chances and the work environment that they personally feel comfortable in.

Imagine having to adhere to ten different kinds of mindsets and evolving the situation for each one of them separately. Well, that is exactly what it is like to be a manager.

  • Use Communication & Transparency as Your Pillars.

One might think that this ends up being generic to all kinds of managers. The specification here as to what a technical manager can do, is about the work-related communication.

While as human beings, all of us are looking for the same things as acceptance and appreciation, as technical managers, the communication matters more.

Technical personnel are rarely known to open up and take the initiative to ask for the things they want. The lack of communication between a manager and their team members leads to distancing from the organization amongst mindsets therefore decreasing the chances of the organization at success.

Being communicative and transparent about the events of the organization and the mindset of the manager themselves, can help the team understand the inner workings of the organization. It also helps them create relatability with the manager. As humans, feeling relatable is a form of acceptance to us. This creates respect towards the manager and colludes the personal as well as professional goals.

  • Connect with you team members.

Connecting doesn’t merely mean to align your interests with theirs. Connects are utterly crucial when we talk about understanding the needs of your team.

Often times, while being stuck in a loop to deliver the release that one might be working on, managers can tend to forget what their team members need.

Let’s face it, it’s hard to realise and remember each of your team members’ requirements. However, the way to make them feel valued can be to remember to connect with them regularly.

Meeting one-on-one with your team members gives them the opportunity to open up more and express the thoughts that usually are held back in team connects.

Both being equally important, managers should ensure that they show up for team connects as well as one-on-one connects consecutively. I personally feel that being a manager with a technical background is a blessing. Being able to understand the job of your team members is the first step to build a connection with them. Make sure you understand their needs and find a way to fulfil those too.

5 Steps for Your 2021 Career Growth and Getting a Job | Technology

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5 Steps for Your 2021 Career Growth and Getting a Job | Technology

With more and more People interested in building a career in the field of
technology, the standards are highly growing. As promising as the technology
world looks, you still need to stand out of the box for achieving high paying
jobs. These jobs are out there and are getting generated by the day.

Yet most of the people graduating in the technology world needs something
extra today for a well-planned career to take off. Here are a few detailed
steps as to how you can make sure you are headed in the right direction.

  • Getting the correct ‘First Job’

    Your first job and the first salary package define the rest of your
    career. You must decide and land with a high paying first job. It builds
    the following path of high paying jobs for you with reputed companies like
    Amazon, EY, KPMG, Deloitte, etc.

    We know that as a fresher, it is difficult to land jobs that pay well. The
    certification courses like CCNA, MCSA, Linux, CCNP, and other courses with
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    job.

  • Learning more skills will make you and exceptional choice

    The technologies are changing frequently. The organizations change their
    way of working and technological cultures along with the trend. It is
    important for you to keep trending as well.

    Keep your learning curve high with acquiring more and more skills with
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    CCNA DevNet to keep yourself certified as per the company standards.

  • Pivot your Job role

    Pivoting means switching your job field as per the requirements of your
    current organization or the rest of the technological industry. Millions
    of organizations are known to pivot with their basic strategic and product
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    Keep your eyes and mind open to the changing trends in the industry. As of
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    cloud. Cloud learning with Network Kings can boost your career
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    Certifications like AWS, Azure and Google Cloud are all growing in demand
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  • Groom Yourself and Diversify

    Grooming yourself means polishing your technological skills as well as
    managerial skills. Program managers, project managers, software
    architects, DevOps engineers and many more job roles demand the
    requirement of skills like leadership, management and communication apart
    from the technological understanding.

    Grooming yourself and working on your communication skills is extremely
    important to land and keep a job. All rounders are highly appreciated in
    the technological industry in 2021. As we are in the 21st century, the IT
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    individuals with a complete set of skills instead of just a few.

    Amazon, Facebook, Google and other such leading organizations like EY,
    KPMD, Deloitte, Bayne, etc. were all founded by people who not only
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    In order to make you highly demanded and appreciated in the industry, you
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  • Make yourself Immune to Changes

    The trends in the technological industry change frequently today. 2021 has
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What is Vulnerability Management & How Cisco AppDynamics is Dealing with It.

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What is vulnerability management?

Every year, thousands of new vulnerabilities are discovered, requiring organizations to patch operating systems (OS) and applications and reconfigure security settings throughout the entirety of their network environment. To proactively address vulnerabilities before they are utilized for a cyberattack, organizations serious about the security of their environment perform vulnerability management to provide the highest levels of security posture possible.

Vulnerability management is generally defined as the process of identifying, categorizing, prioritizing, and resolving vulnerabilities in operating systems (OS), enterprise applications (whether in the cloud or on-premises), browsers, and end-user applications. An ongoing process, vulnerability management seeks to continually identify vulnerabilities that can be remediated through patching and configuration of security settings.

Why do we need vulnerability management?

Network vulnerabilities represent security gaps that could be abused by attackers to damage network assets, trigger a denial of service, and/or steal potentially sensitive information. Attackers are constantly looking for new vulnerabilities to exploit—and taking advantage of old vulnerabilities that may have gone unpatched.

Having a vulnerability management framework in place that regularly checks for new vulnerabilities is crucial for preventing cybersecurity breaches. Without a vulnerability testing and patch management system, old security gaps may be left on the network for extended periods of time. This gives attackers more of an opportunity to exploit vulnerabilities and carry out their attacks.

Cisco AppDynamics is Dealing with It

Cisco’s AppDynamics has launched a new solution for tackling security and exploit management while preserving application performance. AppDynamics, the tech giant’s application performance management (APM) arm, now offers Cisco Secure Application, software built natively into the AppDynamics platform. Cisco said that the “AppDynamics with Cisco Secure Application” will “drastically simplify vulnerability management, defend against attacks, and protect applications.”

While APM solutions usually focus on scrutinizing the performance of applications, the new offering has been designed to bring cybersecurity into the mix.

As businesses feel the strain of extended working from home models set to continue into the foreseeable future, the transition from just BYOD to full remote working, for some organizations, has increased their potential cyberattack exposure and is also applying pressure to existing data management protocols. With enterprise operations now spread across on-premise, hybrid, and cloud systems, Cisco says that data is being shifted from pillar to post, and when combined with remote laptops and devices, this situation is “testing the limits of monitoring practices and vastly expanding the IT perimeter, creating new weaknesses and vulnerabilities in even the most secure IT estates.”

As a result, some corporations may be choosing to sacrifice either security or performance. However, it is hoped that the new software introduced by the company will take some of the load off IT teams.

Cisco AppDynamics is making it easier for customers to integrate security features with application development to help customers detect threats, identify non-standard application behavior, and block attacks.

The company is adding software, called Cisco Secure Application, to the AppDynamics platform to correlate security and application information by scanning code execution for known exploits. Vulnerability data is shared with application and security operations teams so that together they can prioritize, execute, and track remediation efforts.

The vendor is adding software, called Cisco Secure Application, to the AppDynamics platform to correlate security and application information by scanning code execution for known exploits. Vulnerability data is shared with application and security operations teams so that together they can priorities, execute, and track remediation efforts.

The AppDynamics performance-management platform uses a series of agents and controllers to monitor the performance of application code, runtime, and behavior. Agents are deployed across the enterprise, from devices to containers and host application locations. The system uses AI and machine learning to correlate information from across different domains to better understand application performance and infrastructure dependencies and quickly identify problems. The system supports analytics to help IT teams understand why things are not working optimally and to predict when problems will occur.

With the introduction of the Cisco Secure Application, the above vulnerabilities and be identified within the application during production, bringing about a faster remedy. Companies won’t have to give up all the benefits of applications for security. AppDynamics claims that Cisco Secure Application melds together business performance and security insights with zero friction to protect brands against slowdowns and exploits.

What does the AppDynamics tools do?

AppDynamics provides a significant amount of detail to solve performance problems by using APM Tools and an analytics-driven approach. The agents are extremely intelligent and know when to capture important details and when to simple collect the basics, and this is for every transaction.

Our Application Performance Management solution baselines, monitors and reports on the performance of all transactions that flow through your app. Our APM solution was built for production environments, which provides an agile approach when it comes to capturing the details of transactions. Automatically determine normal performance and stop false alarms with dynamic baselining for end-to-end response time.

We score all of the transactions by doing a comparison of the self-learned baseline to the actual response time. When we determine that a Business Transaction has gone too far from its normal behavior, our agent can automatically collect full call stack details in order to troubleshooting the issue. This smart-analytics method enables AppDynamics to find and alert problems from the very beginning, so that they can be fixed before any major impact occurs.

At times the process of deep data capturing of transactions can become advantageous but AppDynamics has a feature that solves this need. We have a feature that enables full system-wide data recording. Developer mode is ideal for pre-production environments and every single request will be captured through a transaction snapshot. Also, it will shut down automatically when it is accidently left on, so that your system won’t stall if transaction volume rises.

Cisco Secure Application features include

  • Automatic runtime protection: Visibility into an application’s true behavior to easily detect attacks, identify deviations and block attacks automatically.
  • Simplified vulnerability management: Access at the code level to detect dependency and configuration level security vulnerabilities in production.
  • Security insights informed by business impact: Security details correlated with the application topology to apply business relevance to security events and helps teams focus on the incidents that matter most.
  • Collaboration between Application and Security teams: A shared context for Application and Security teams for optimal collaboration, improved security posture, and healthy digital business.

Conclusion

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8 Ways to Protect Your Data in a Data Selling & Profiting World: Become Data Smart with Cyber DIY

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On January 4, 2021, WhatsApp released its new policy announcing that user data will be used and stored at the end of WhatsApp servers. They explicitly mentioned that anyone not abiding to this policy will not be able to use WhatsApp after February 8, 2021.

With the release of the iPhone 12, Apple also launched a new feature in the iOS 14, allowing users to deny the usage of cookies or user data to apps simply with a click. Ever since then, Google & Facebook have been trying to fight Apple on their decision to allow users to prevent their data from being overtly used.

The Australian media companies proposed a law last month for Google to pay the media houses upon using their content and press releases in their search results to which Google denied saying that they would stop their service altogether in Australia if the law is passed.

A documentary aired on Netflix last year ‘The Social Dilemma’, showing the journey of a man fighting to know what happened with the data that Facebook stored from his profile particularly. Facebook never shared the details because Facebook simply couldn’t however the giant conglomerate lost the battle and eventually had to agree to share the details with the user. It defined everything in one statement: When you get the platform for free, you are the product.

But why does all of this matter? In 2012, Google started using user data to generate ads with Google Adsense. YouTubing became a career format and Google Adsense made a ton of money eventually ruling out dvertising houses. Over the last eight years, Google Ads has taken over the advertising segment entirely. Hardly anyone from the small business community wants to pay for advertising over the traditional forums like print or TV. How does Google do it though? Why is it that Facebook and Google are fighting so hr for the data streams to remain working as they do now?

We all know these companies thrive by selling our data as their product. Although we know that these giants only use the data to show us personalized ads and therefore generate a revenue from it, one thing that’s primal is the fact this data is not as safe as we think. Once in the hands of those who mean us harm, there is no going back. You data is your property. Learn to save it.

Here’s how you can do that in 8 easy things to take care of:

  • Review Privacy Policies Thoroughly

    Nearly every single one of us does not read the privacy policy of a platform before agreeing to it. We might end up giving access to sensitive information to the web as well, while using platforms without much knowledge. Read them properly. Read the policies later if you can’t at the time. Be informed.

  • Make Sure to Delete It. Really, Delete It.

    Have you ever come across your data files that you had apparently deleted from your phone a long time ago? The cloud is a mysterious place. Not everything you delete from your phone is deleted from the cloud. Clean your devices. Mobile phones, hard drives, cloud platforms, clean them regularly.

  • Educate Yourself. Get Trained.

    Your personal data should be personal. Don’t let anyone else have it and use it against you. Educate yourself. Increase your knowledge about the cyber threats, the possibilities of usage of your data and prevent them from happening to you. Cyber DIY program by Network Kings helps you learn everything you need to do t protect your data as a layman.

  • Turn on Your Erase-Data Function.

    Most smart phones give you the ease of setting up your phone and permissions yourself. Find the right ones for you. Turn on your erase-data function so your phone doesn’t automatically store all you data. In fact, enable your phone to stop search engines to store your data too..

  • Use Strong Passwords.

    More often than not our passwords are obvious data pieces like our date of birth, our wedding data, and our phone number. Even so, we might also have our own name as a password. That might seem appropriate for us to remember it however is an easy way for hackers to crack your passwords. Passwords are nothing but a combination of characters. Finding the right one is the real trick..

  • Turn on Two-Factor Authentication.

    A two-factor authentication will always prevent your data. Sure, it’s an extra step hassle for you but will make it all the more difficult for hackers to get your data unless you want them to have it..

  • Clear Your Cloud.

    As if we haven’t touched upon this enough already? We really haven’t. Clearing your cloud can also prove complicated at times. Make sure you understand the platform you use thoroughly and clean it entirely..

  • Get Certified & Never Miss a Point to Save Your Data.

    The CYBER DIY program at Network Kings helps you learn everything you need to know so as to prevent all your data to the best possible level. Train yourself. Learn from experts. Start thinking like a hacker to stop one from entering your life..

Learn how to save your data today.

What is Changing in Data Centers & Network Infrastructures in 2021?

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What is Changing in Data Centers & Network Infrastructures in 2021 ?

What is Changing in Data Centers and Network Infrastructures in 2021. What You Need to Know as a Student.

Data Center :- Data centers are often referred to as a singular thing, but in actuality they are composed of a number of technical elements. These can be broken down into three categories:

  • Computer : The memory and processing power to run the applications, generally provided by high-end servers
  • Storage : Important enterprise data is generally housed in a data center, on media ranging from tape to solid-state drives, with multiple backups
  • Networking : Interconnections between data center components and to the outside world, including routers, switches, application-delivery controllers, and more

These are the components that IT needs to store and manage the most critical resources that are vital to the continuous operations of an organization. Because of this, the reliability, efficiency, security and constant evolution of data centers are typically a top priority. Both software and hardware security measures are a must.

In addition to technical equipment, a data center also requires a significant amount of facilities infrastructure to keep the hardware and software up and running. This includes power subsystems, uninterruptable power supplies (UPS), ventilation and cooling systems, backup generators and cabling to connect to external network operators.

Changing in Data Centers : –

Data is growing at an exponential rate in the modern borderless world. Over 2.5 Quintilian bytes of data is generated every day across the globe. India alone is set to produce 2.3 million petabytes of digital data by the year 2020, and it is growing at a rate that’s much faster than the world average. Many enterprises are also exploring online data backup in the cloud further fueling this data explosion.

This data explosion increases the demand for storage capacities that are served by Data Centers. In just two decades, Data Centers have scaled up from the size of a room to the size of a commercial tower giving way to accommodate this increased storage need. Besides storage, modern Data Centers are also sprucing up to handle more services. They are more connected than ever and can meet the needs of the contemporary business world. New solutions have emerged around Data Center architecture that can bring competitive advantages to users through more optimized performance. Data Centers have now become critical components of a modern IT infrastructure.

The future of Data Center

The future of the Data Center is smart: modern Data Centers are now offering converged infrastructure, and the trend is further moving towards hyper-convergence. This has brought many advantages for Data Center operations and has also solved problems that paralyzed companies earlier. The risk of hardware failure, for instance, plagues companies with the risk of losing data and they struggle to rebuild their infrastructure. Siloed approaches to managing servers was another challenge that made Data Center operations expensive and complicated. With converged infrastructures, the process of managing a Data Center gets organized; with a single interface used for infrastructure management, your company turns more proactive in streamlining your operational processes and in keeping your data on the cloud safe.

Automation Is No Longer Optional

Even before the pandemic, there was a severe lack of qualified workforce in the data center industry. According to a study from 2018, the average age of the staff is increasing and women generally avoid data center jobs. Overall, data center staff development is not keeping up with the necessity for servers.

Companies that had remote management systems in place already enjoyed a competitive advantage, but the lockdown has made automation a must, due to movement restrictions. Despite the obvious importance of digital services during the pandemic, only a few countries have classified data center personnel as “essential workers”, who were allowed to commute freely.

While some operations can still only be executed manually, the number of such tasks should be reduced to a minimum, so less on-site employees are required. Automating some processes can be reduced to a self-service operation requiring only a few minutes.

Modern automation platforms can handle most server operations, such as component inventory, registration, automatic discovery, instant hardware replacement in case of malfunctions, network and storage configuration, and so on. The advantages of this approach are obvious and data centers that invest in automation will be able to reduce costs and operate more effectively on the long term.

According to a study by Mordor Intelligence, the data center automation market might rise from $7.34 billion in 2019 to $19.65 billion by 2025.

Closer to the Edge

Alongside cloud computing, edge computing is now one of the trending topics in the IT industry. This model relies on processing data as close as possible to the place where it is collected (the edge of the network), instead than on a central server, greatly increasing speed and reducing latency.

In order to facilitate edge computing, data centers will no longer be built only in major technological and economic hubs and we might see an increasing number of small facilities spread all around the world. With the unstoppable rise of IoT devices and 5G, the need for edge computing is more actual than ever.

Providers must adapt to this trend and scale their operations, in order to be able to deploy new small data centers in edge areas as quickly as possible. Having a centralized platform that can manage hardware in thousands of locations is a big advantage in this scenario.

Above the Cloud

As already mentioned, cloud computing is no longer a novelty, but rather a standard. After the launch of the first affordable public cloud services, many companies have migrated all of their services to the cloud. However, security issues and unpredictable costs have soon become apparent and businesses are now looking for a more effective solution.

A growing trend today is the so-called hybrid cloud, in which a company designs its own cloud in a data center, controlling its dedicated private network and virtualized infrastructure. As a result, modern data centers are expected to provide features such as low-latency networking, built-in virtualization and container platforms, or even native support for databases and other advanced applications.

The Role of the Data Center

Data centers are an integral part of the enterprise, designed to support business applications and provide services such as: Data storage, management, backup and recovery Productivity applications, such as email High-volume e-commerce transactions Powering online gaming communities Big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence Today, there are reportedly more than 7 million data centers worldwide. Practically every business and government entity build and maintains its own data center or has access to someone else’s, if not both models. Many options are available today, such as renting servers at a colocation facility, using data center services managed by a third party, or using public cloud-based services from hosts like Amazon, Microsoft, Sony and Google.

The Core Components of a Data Center

Data center architectures and requirements can differ significantly. For example, a data center built for a cloud service provider like Amazon satisfies facility, infrastructure and security requirements that significantly differ from a completely private data center, such as one built for a government facility that is dedicated to securing classified data.

The primary elements of a data center break down as follows:

  • Facility – the usable space available for IT equipment. Providing round-the-clock access to information makes data centers some of the world’s most energy-consuming facilities. Design to optimize space and environmental control to keep equipment within specific temperature/humidity ranges are both emphasized.
  • Core components – equipment and software for IT operations and storage of data and applications. These may include storage systems; servers; network infrastructure, such as switches and routers; and various information security elements, such as firewalls.
  • Operations staff – personnel available to monitor operations and maintain IT and infrastructure equipment around the clock.


Role of AI and ML

Data volumes are now massive and getting larger by the day, and with the rise of edge computing, more data will reside in more places. Artificial intelligence and machine learning are required to facilitate effective data management. There’s a wide range of jobs in this area across the spectrum of the AI lifecycle, including training AI systems, modeling, programming and providing human-in-the-loop participation to ensure AI goals are being met.

  • Software skills

    Many IT engineers, particularly those who work with network infrastructure, are hardware centric. Sure, they may know how to hunt and peck on a command-line interface, but that’s not really a software skill. Most network engineers have never executed even basic software functions like making an API call. Using APIs can make many tasks much easier than trying to write a script to parse a CLI. Not all network engineers need to become programmers–although those who want to should focus on languages such as Python and Ruby–but all should become software power-users and understand how to use APIs and SDKs to perform administrative tasks.

  • Data-center networking

    The role of the network in the data center has changed significantly over the past decade. The traditional multi-tier architectures that were optimized for North-South traffic flows have shifted to leaf-spine networks that are designed for higher volumes of East-West traffic. Also, software-defined networking (SDN) systems are being used to provision virtual-fabric overlays of the physical underlay. This brings greater automation, traffic visibility, and cost effectiveness to the data-center network. Network engineers who work in data centers need to become familiar with new concepts associated with network fabrics such as Linux-based operating systems, open-source network platforms, VxLAN tunnels and Ethernet VPNs. These all increase the scalability, elasticity and resiliency of the network while simplifying network operations. Also, most data-center platforms are now open by design, making vendor interoperability much easier and breaking the lock-in customers experienced in the past. Another aspect of data center networking that’s changed is cloud connectivity. Historically, network engineers were concerned with the network inside the data center, which is a highly controlled environment.


Sustainable Finance Boosts Green Data Centers

Data center customers aren’t the only stakeholders that are focused on sustainability. Investors also will be part of the green energy revolution, as they seek to align their portfolios with climate resilience. This is creating a growth opportunity in sustainable finance that prioritizes ESG criteria (environmental, social and governance) in selecting targets for lending and funding.

SLLs belong to a family of sustainable debt that also includes “green loans” in which the borrowing will directly fund a sustainable project. Sustainability-linked debt instruments like the Aligned loan are not project-specific, but look to ensure a company’s overall ESG performance through sustainable performance targets that reduce the borrowing cost.

“Sustainable business is good business,” said Dan Shurey, Vice President of Sustainable Finance at ING. “I think that’s become pretty well recognized across sectors. It’s no longer a nice to have it’s a need to have.”

Conclusion

The amount of data is growing exponentially, and the rise in big data, analytics, edge and cloud computing, IoT and 5G are growing along with it. Digitalization is now happening in all industries and business workloads, and data centers themselves must be able to keep pace with the changes. Automating and adopting new trends can save time, optimize processes, as well as save costs.

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