EMC Proven Professional Community Roundup, Week Ending June 19, 2010

Sorry this is late everyone, it is going to be a busy summer here!

Community Updates

• There is a new EMCSA Backup and Recovery Certification - an Avamar Specialist certification. Check this doc for details.
• Did you know we maintain a list of all EMC Proven Professional Exam Updates here in the community?

Value of being Proven

This question has been in the Industry Readiness community for a while, but its still a really good post. The IDC white paper "The Proven Professional Certification - Proving Certification Can Profit" talks about the impact a Proven Professional certification can have to someone's career, or to IT organizations. What do you think - what's the real value of being a Proven Professional?

Blog posts that may be of interest to Proven Professionals

• vExpert panel at the Charlotte N.C. VMUG event (video)
• Chuck Hollis (EMC's VP Global Marketing CTO) answers questions that came up in a Simulcast about EMC's Journey to the Private cloud. The panel included Chuck, Sanjay Mirchandani (EMC's CIO) and Tom Roloff (head of EMC Consulting).
• Getting VMware certified too? You may be interested in knowing that a blueprint was relased for the VMware Certified Advanced Professional Datacenter Administration certification

Ok everyone - there is about a week and a half left in the quarter - good luck to everyone studying for certification exams. Make sure to ask the community for help if you get stuck!

That's all I have for this week. Be safe, stay cool and see you next week.