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Linux Academy Rolls Out New Cloud-Based Training Platform

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Linux Academy, an online training platform for the Linux OS and cloud computing, on Tuesday announced a public beta rollout of its Cloud Assessments platform, which is designed to let large enterprise firms train and assess their IT workers and prospective job candidates. The academy offers training on a variety of cloud-based platforms, including Amazon Web Services, Open Stack, DevOps, Azure and others. The Cloud Assessments platform will focus initially on training and testing of AWS, due to the strong demand for that cloud-based computing platform and the large skills gap of existing knowledge among IT workers. "Since AWS is a leader in the market, companies and individuals are rushing to ensure they can handle these technologies," said Linux Academy CEO Anthony James. AWS Demand The academy's current focus is preparation and validation for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate level exam, James told LinuxInsider. However, there are other in-d...
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Hard Disk Drive Versus Solid State Drive

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This is first in a new series of blog posts we’re calling  What’s the Diff?  Many of us have a lot of general questions about the gear we rely on every day, including storage and backup technology. What’s the Diff  is here to demystify and explain in plain language how this stuff works. We’ll try to put it context for you as well, so you can understand not just how this stuff works but why it’s important to know. We hope you find it useful, and if you have any questions about this or other stuff you’d like to see us talk about, please sound off in the comments! In this corner: the Hard Disk Drive The traditional spinning hard drive has been a staple for many generations of personal computers. Constantly improving technology has enabled hard drive makers to pack more storage capacity on smaller drives than ever, at a cost per gigabyte that still makes hard drives the best bang for the buck. As sophisticated as they’ve become,  hard drives have been around si...
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