HP IT Management college: Finding the right cloud for a student

This is a busy college, the class schedule is intensive, the course is adjusted, and the whole year is endless, no winter vacation and summer vacation.

From June to September this year, the HP IT Management College arranges more than 10 teaching programs a month, and in the most one months, the college plans to open 17 courses in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. The pace of such intensive courses and curriculum, not only in China's Hewlett-Packard Training College System, in the domestic IT and business training institutes, also ranked among the forefront.

The HP IT Management College curriculum covers 10 series on IT service management, cloud computing and data center, it governance and planning, business requirements analysis, and project management, for a short period of 1, 2 days and a week. Various courses are not limited to common lectures the college has also arranged for international agencies and experts to communicate, combat cases of action-style learning, HP real-world sharing and a variety of interactive courses from theory to practice, this is not just an "IT Management college", more like an "It training base" or "IT management combat platform ”。

However, learning and sharing in the classroom is only part of the busy work of HP's IT Management College.

At the same time, the college is working with many large and medium-sized enterprises in the country to provide customized, in-depth, long-term counseling courses that combine business with different corporate roles, from internal control systems, project management to Enterprise architecture and planning, business requirements analysis, IT service management, and ITIL V3 Series Certification The busyness of this college is embodied not only in the intensive curriculum arrangement, but also in the extremely rich curriculum and course form.

In addition, the time that keeps moving forward gives the academy a reason to be busier. With the IT industry this is a rapid development of the new concept of the industry, technology, product, knowledge system and training certification system to advance, HP IT Management College from the resident lecturer to the outside of the trainer, as well as the college courses, are in the Times of innovation, chasing the IT industry with the development of the pace, In order to train trainees and enterprises to provide cutting-edge and advanced training courses.

Today, as a core member of HP Training trainee system, HP IT Management College has a unique training base in Beijing. The base has a real interactive classroom, relaxed and comfortable and casual interactive sharing experience area, connecting HP's Global Virtual Laboratory environment, Hewlett-Packard Public Cloud and other web-based access to a wealth of resources, to provide students with unmatched practice, walkthrough environment. At the same time, there is a fairly large data center that covers HP's classic and leading equipment over the years. Based on superior hardware conditions, a large number of instructor resources offered or invited by HP, HP IT Management College has 10 product lines, and nearly 100 IT management training courses cover almost all topics of concern to the customer's IT department.

It's just that HP's IT Management College is not a high-profile institution, either in HP's training school system or in it and business training institutions. However, in its establishment and development in the 10 years, has trained a large number of domestic CIO, information managers and IT managers of their achievements and training of IT staff countless, and the famous HP Business School side by shoulder "peaches and plums all over the world."

By the 10 anniversary of HP's IT Management Academy, Chen Ruidan, executive dean of HP IT Management College, China HP Education and Training department, senior cloud product manager Liyi, Senior lecturer Lin Lin, received a small media interview, on the one hand, reviewed the HP IT Management College ten years through the development process, And its closely accompanying China's it construction and IT management of the 10 years; On the other hand, in the cloud computing this trend, introduced the HP IT Management College in the curriculum and training of the development.

HP IT Management College: Finding practical experience from simulation training

"HP IT Management College as the whole industry focused on professional IT talent training, we have not only a very rich curriculum and superior hardware resources, the trainees through our training on the one hand can be improved, on the other hand, the development of the industry to understand the trend. We are also very concerned about the students to establish a good communication environment, so that they can not only learn from the teacher's share of knowledge, but also in close to the real environment in the hands-on operation, the theory and practice together. Liyi, a senior cloud computing product manager at HP's IT Management Institute, said that combining theory with practice, and even more hands-on drills, is the core training tool for HP's IT Management College.

According to Liyi, the October 2008 HP IT Management College formally established training base, the total area of 900 square meters, including a number of classrooms, exchanges and rest areas and belong to the institute's Training data center, and these classrooms, rest areas and training data centers are based on a realistic application environment, providing outstanding training, practical environment.

"We hope that through the excellent hardware environment to enable customers to have a better experience, so that our training to achieve the best results." We want to simulate a real environment, such as the management of the classroom table is relatively large, because we want to simulate the real environment, at any time can become a complete work station, and in the technical class, our environment, space and change, each station has a PC workstation. Liyi said that the HP IT Management College curriculum is "mix and match", covering the IT management courses, business school courses and some technical courses, so on the site environment layout, management classrooms, technical classrooms are unique, tailored to different training and practical needs.

According to Liyi, Hewlett-Packard's IT Management College's technical classroom provides three kinds of training resources including HP's remote simulation environment, on-site data center environment and the cloud computing environment based on the HP public cloud. The HP Virtual Lab environment simply logs on to the Access Interface Web page provided by its user environment, access to the server's management interface, terminals, access to the system can also open the operating interface, just click on the menu to enter the United States in the real training, testing environment, which allows "any peacetime in the production environment can not do things ”。

"This equipment is devoted to a certain training course during this time period, it is completely controllable to the user and the student, can apply various experiment environment, have no limit." This is an advantage of our training. "Liyi said.

HP's IT Management school's data center is small but spite, except for HP's newer x86 servers and NAS storage systems, as well as SAN switches, tape libraries, and backup recovery system devices, which are small in size, the equipment needed in the IT environment is essentially "spite". Unlike most demo centers, the data center is dedicated to training, and even if there are problems with some equipment, the college will not be anxious to replace or repair it, but to provide students with valuable troubleshooting, corrections and emergency learning opportunities.

Liyi said that for HP IT Management College, the importance of this data center is that students "have the opportunity in the real world to see the appearance of the error, provide a real and can simulate the environment for students to do hands-on, rather than simply look at some experimental environment." ”

In addition, the college also uses HP's public cloud platform to provide and display cloud environment operations, "visually through the cloud computing platform to create virtual machines, to provide the creation of storage, content publishing, block storage and other operations to achieve the best training results." ”

Following China's IT construction: ten years ' growth of HP IT Management College

Behind the idea of combining theory with practice, HP's IT Management Institute has been a core of training for many years: consistent with China's IT and IT management development process closely linked. Over the past decade, with China's it construction and IT management of different stages of development, Hewlett-Packard IT Management Institute with the Times to open courses, change teaching methods, the introduction of international training system and certification, to achieve "with the market and customer demand consistent" HP IT Management College training value.

In this respect, as the executive dean of HP IT Management College in China, I have experienced the Chen Ruidan of HP IT Management College for many years and the different stages of it construction in China. He believes that the HP IT Management College can be long-term access to students and corporate customers, one of the most important reason is to follow the development of China's it construction, not only to provide international advanced experience, but also provide a tight market development situation of training courses and teaching knowledge.

"The birth of each college is consistent with the needs of the market and the customer, and is born." "Referring to HP's IT Technical College in 1985, Chen Ruidan pointed out that 1985 is basically China's IT development period, is just the beginning stage, the need is to introduce mature products and technical training, so Hewlett-Packard set up the IT technical college; and by the year 2002, China's IT development to another node, "from the initial stage of construction to the management of the relatively systematic period." He believes that HP's IT Management College in 2002, the establishment of a profound era, and this mark, but also with the development of IT management school to today. Four years later, along with China's IT management, IT service management from the promotional period, start-up period, to customer practice gradually popularized, a large number of domestic mature enterprises began to apply IT service management concept, Hewlett-Packard IT Management Institute introduced ITIL sand table This new training and learning tools. From July 2005 to January 2007 of more than 500 days, Hewlett-Packard IT Management College's ITIL sand table has done more than 100, training a large number of ITIL management talent, "domestic ITIL certification consultants, and customers of the experts, about 70% are from the HP IT Management College to go out."

Today, the ITIL sandbox is still in use, it is known as the "ITSM Essentials Sand Table Walkthrough (ITIL V3)", but the frequency of the course has been greatly reduced, with the Chinese IT industry diversification, vertical deepening and international standardization of development, more rich, professional practical courses, certification courses in the HP IT Management Institute, The role of ITIL sand table has evolved over time, from the core of training, to becoming a regular member of HP's IT Management College curriculum.

"2008 years ago, China's IT industry entered the stage of management deepening, on the one hand began to pay attention to planning." On the one hand, the fields begin to be profound, such as research and development from the management system to business needs analysis, high-quality demand extraction, from the data center management into the period of management deepening. HP IT Management College experienced the "point" of the previous single course to the "line" to further deepen and expand to "face." According to Chen Ruidan, in 2009, with the country's IT training certification management of the refinement, the domestic IT certification, system teaching needs to increase, because the curriculum comprehensive and into the system, the Institute and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the IT strategy and service management direction of the engineering master's degree, launched a nationally approved engineering master's degrees.

In subsequent years, Hewlett-Packard IT Management College from "face" to "three-dimensional", witnessed from training, explanation and practice to the talent system training, the new trend of enterprise talent Reserve, with the enterprise experienced the independent research and development, project outsourcing and other ways to achieve diversification, and the it as a business body, Integrate it with the development of the business and so on new trends.

Chen Ruidan said that with the integration of the two topics of it and talent, enterprise management recognized that "enterprise innovation and two of entrepreneurship can promote innovation through information", Hewlett-Packard IT Management College gradually began to work with enterprises to carry out years Customer talent training program. At the same time, with IT management and it technology gradually moving towards convergence, cloud computing, the topic of deepening the development of the environment, the HP IT Management Institute is also gradually launched it and business integration, IT services and IT management integration, technology and management integration and cloud computing and other aspects of the curriculum.

Chen Ruidan that the HP IT Management College can achieve greater success in the cloud computing and mobile internet era to achieve greater success, the most important thing is whether to grasp the integration and the next generation of IT services and management of the two important topics, whether from the training of management personnel, technical personnel, Service talent to the enterprise at all levels of talent, whether the architect, service managers or auditors are trained to become the field of cloud computing talent.

Cloud computing: Deep optimization to train cloud computing talent

"The new generation of IT management training product lines is actually across IT management colleges and technical colleges." This trend is becoming more and more obvious, whether cloud computing is the concept of management or technology, the concept of IT services or the concept of business services? We find that the integration is getting higher. We are promoting management innovation through the concept of technology. Chen Ruidan says cloud computing is not just a link between technology and products, but a more subversive concept of management and service. This trend, China and the international high coincidence, is with China in the next 10 years of development "close integration trend."

Chen Ruidan that China's IT development through the construction period, management period, planning period, now go to the integration period. In this stage of development, cloud computing talent is the focus, enterprise mature logo also toward whether to have a system, all levels of cloud computing talent, he believes: "The cultivation of cloud computing talent has become the trend of IT management, IT management market development from technology to process, and then from the flow to talent and cloud computing talent training." ”

He also believes that the importance of cloud computing and the difficulty of developing cloud computing talent is reflected in the CIO's current focus. The focus of the CIO's previous focus has been on technology, process development, and architecture, and now focuses on "architecture, process and technology convergence," which is cloud computing. As a result, CIOs ' focus on convergence and the evolution of the "cloud-represented service model" is the focus of HP's IT Management College in the next phase.

"Cloud computing is more than just a sequence, and each department and role may have related responsibilities." Cloud computing is being used as a representative, as a fusion, to drive business changes. "Chen Ruidan believes that because of the way the cloud makes IT staff from the perspective of the business sector, to ensure that it anytime, anywhere access, fast delivery, and in accordance with service billing, this means that the entire enterprise to mobilize innovative resources and growth momentum.

However, he acknowledges that the CIO's focus on convergence and the expectation of cloud computing, it brings new challenges to the development of enterprise it talents, as well as challenges to HP's IT management College's training and curriculum, because it means that the training is no longer directed at a certain type of person (post) or a certain level of training, but "systematic, Integration training ".

"It's not just the IT department that's focused on cloud computing today, we're also looking at more corporate CEOs, and he's concerned about how cloud computing affects him and how his business is related to cloud computing." Business people focus on what the cloud is, what benefits it can bring me, and whether there is a revenue generation for the business. An enterprise that does it planning or the role of a CIO he focuses on what cloud computing is about, and in what ways it is most conducive to innovation in the business and business sectors. "Chen Ruidan said that cloud computing is from the CEO, CIO to IT managers, it experts and management experts, all levels of people are concerned about the topic, the previous is to encourage the IT department learning business, today is the Business unit initiative to learn it knowledge, the information fusion era of the big curtain to really pull off, The good smell-sensitive companies are starting to get nervous.

In the era of cloud computing, HP's IT Management College's training and curriculum system has changed, from the single course of training or the systematic curriculum, instead of "system training, focus on upgrading" approach.

"We are concerned about the new technologies in cloud computing, and how virtualization technology evolves in every field." Customers cultivate talent not only focus on the traditional management system, such as 10 days of training at least 2 days of the topic is to talk about new trends, evolution and direction, there are technical and management topics. "Chen Ruidan said that the cloud computing era, the HP IT Management College from a single course of training, towards a more systematic and hierarchical training," The key point to select the core of the market, and this key point is "cloud computing's many obstacles in the most concerned about cloud security issues.

"The International Cloud Security Alliance has been working with us to introduce a course that teaches in the form of a practical theory one day, and another day with a real environment." Through training, companies will know what is in the cloud, which is what can be prevented and which is acceptable. Chen Ruidan said that HP IT Management Institute introduced CCSK (certified Cloud security knowledage, Cloud computing Safety certification), CDCP (Certified Data Center Professional, certified data Centre experts ), TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework, open Group Enterprise Architecture Framework) and other certification training and course content on cloud security and cloud computing operation. Beyond the "Focus", the institute has built up a sophisticated cloud computing talent "competency system", including cloud computing, cloud computing, and cloud service delivery.

He talked about the HP School of Management as a neutral college, does not take HP technology products as the dominant in the cloud computing field. But from the actual point of view, combined with HP's own capabilities, including the cloud Discovery Workshop, Cloud Roadmap services, cloud design services, cloud security services, HP Cloud support services, provide customers with the choice of landing. Chen Ruidan said that in the cloud computing training system, the college provides three major training components: the first is to cover the basic structure of ideas, the second is to cover the concept of service management, the third is to cover the cloud computing hardware and key security issues, "cloud to promote the enterprise inside there is the process of construction, there is operation and maintenance of the management process, there is Each link will appear what the problem, with this mainly, can be a comprehensive and multidimensional way to the multi-level people to provide cloud computing training. ”

However, Chen Ruidan also acknowledged that the cloud computing era of HP IT Management College has been very different, "(one-way) training," The color has gradually become indifferent, the important thing is multi-directional training, learning feedback, and even the exchange between students, as well as "different training dimensions and the situation of different enterprises to build talent training platform." "Cloud computing in the environment, in the training of the classroom is more discussion and exchanges, the most advanced cases come out to discuss, inspire everyone's thinking." This is our near-stage positioning. "Chen Ruidan said.

"We have 10 years of long-term customers, they have their own pain points, Hewlett-Packard IT Management College with our international, combat, comprehensive, innovative professionalism so that their business and information technology closer together." Chen Ruidan said in an interview that one of the core goals of HP's IT Management College was to help companies find a suitable service and management style in the fast-changing IT industry and even in the fierce competition of business.

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