Contributing Writer

Michael Gordon

According to CISCO Instructor Michael Gordon, St. Petersburg College(SPC) will be offering a one-week virtualization summer camp, which will be held from June 17th-21st, in partnership with Florida State College at Jacksonville, Countryside and Gibbs High Schools, to train both high school faculty and up to 20 high school students in Citrix VDI-in-a-box software; a new generation of software that allows creating virtual desktops for users that can be accessed from any location. Students were pre-registered for the event.

SPC has also purchased the server hardware to start offering virtualization courses in the fall and/or spring of 2013. The new courses offered will be the EMC Information, Storage, and Management (ISM) course, followed by the VMware VSphere Install, Configure, Manage5.1 course. These are the industry standard introductory courses to cloud computing and desktop/server virtualization. Both courses will be offered fully online using NDGs NetLAB+ appliance.