Last fall, St. Petersburg College’s College of Computer & Information Technology (CCIT) department purchased server hardware to start offering virtualization courses in the fall 2014 semester. The new courses offered will be the EMC Information Storage, and Management (ISM) course, followed by the VMware VSphere Install, Configure Manage 5.1 course. These are the industry standard introductory courses to cloud computing and desktop server virtualization. Both courses will be offered fully online using the NDGs NetLAB+ appliance.

The ISM course will help a student acquire understanding of leading storage and data protection technologies, as well as how to mitigate storage infrastructure security threats. On the other hand, the VMware course teaches students the basics of installing, configuring and managing VMware.