Recruiting site Glassdoor reports says the month from early March to early April was as bad for IT jobs - and jobs in general - as the first nine months of the Great Recession.
IT pros considering Cisco professional certifications to improve their CVs face new requirements that address hot areas such as IoT and SD-WAN and new choices that include programming certifications.
Cisco's CCNA, CCNP, and CCIE certifications have changed as of Feb. 24 to emphasize areas such as network programmability, multi-cloud, Internet of Things, SD-WAN, and other software-focused initiatives.
Organizations are turning to hybrid cloud technology for greater agility, security, compliance and other benefits. Now they face the challenge of making everything work together seamlessly.
Major changes to Cisco's certification program emphasize network programming, automation.
Hybrid cloud training can help enterprise IT professionals who are trying to optimize private and public cloud resources.
Changing networks require changing skills. Learn how some IT pros are developing network programming skills to navigate the shift to software-defined networking (SDN) and respond to the increasing complexity of IT infrastructure management.
The fast growth of the internet of things (IoT) is creating a need to train cross-functional experts who can combine traditional networking and infrastructure expertise with database and reporting skills.
Building public awareness and achieving workforce diversity will help data-center operators contend with skills shortage, says Uptime Institute.
Cisco has revamped some of its most critical certification and career-development programs in an effort to address the emerging software-oriented-network environment.