Cisco Learning Services Cloud Training At-a-Glance © 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco and the Cisco logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cisco and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. To view a list of Cisco trademarks, go to this URL: www.cisco.com/go/trademarks. Third-party trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. The use of the word partner does not imply a partnership relationship between Cisco and any other company. (1110R) What Is the Value of Cisco Learning Services Cloud Training? Under pressure to support strategic business objectives, IT is rapidly embracing cloud technologies. Cloud adoption has steadily gained acceptance because it promises to help achieve business goals faster, more efficiently, and more cost-effectively. To take advantage of this opportunity, organizations are using public, private, or hybrid cloud delivery models to deliver personalized services, real-time access to information, and instant communications anytime, anywhere, on any device. It’s crucial that administrators and operators in this space acquire the following cloud- related capabilities: • Automation and orchestration—deploy new applications and services faster by automating policies and workflows across domains (network, computing, storage, and security). • Management of virtual and physical infrastructure—connect assets transparently and automatically to create the right capabilities at the right cost. With cloud computing, you have greater access to more of these services and resources than ever before. While Cisco and our partners are connecting private, public, open, and hybrid clouds with the globally connected network of clouds, Cisco® Learning Services cloud training offers the courses required to help solve these cloud computing challenges. What Problems Does Cisco Learning Services Cloud Training Help Solve? Creating, configuring, and management of private, hybrid, and public clouds can be complicated. Cisco Learning Services cloud courses offer an excellent solution to some of today’s biggest business and technology challenges. Administrators and operators can learn how to deliver reliable and programmable infrastructure for application development and operation teams, while providing a public cloud experience behind firewalls, on-premises, and with complete remote management. Cisco Metapod comes with 24-hour support so that companies can implement and operate custom cloud support according to your needs—faster and more reliably. Cisco Learning Services Cloud Course Offerings Cisco Learning Services training empowers cloud consumers with the experience and knowledge required to operate and self-administer their cloud solutions. Our current cloud-based course training offerings can be found at http://www.cisco.com/c/en/ us/training-events/resources/learning-services/technology/cloud.html. An example of currently available cloud course offerings include: • Cisco Metapod Foundation Training: Cisco Metapod offers cloud infrastructure-as- a-service (IaaS) for companies wanting to configure and manage their own private clouds with Cisco 24-hour support service. This course provides experience for both users and administrators about how to create and manage instances (virtual machines), storage volumes, OS images, projects (also called tenants), Neutron networking-as-a-service (NaaS), and instance flavors (size templates). You also learn how to access the OpenStack API services to run command line interface (CLI) commands and create application stacks for faster deployment of instances.