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8 free online courses to grow your tech skills
Free Online Tech CoursesAt one time, universities and colleges were institutes of higher learning for those who were passionate about acquiring knowledge. Today, education discussions tend to to center around how much individuals can make with their degree. Thanks to the Internet there are still places that offer open learning initiatives designed to help a new generation of technologists succeed. If money was the only thing holding you back from learning more about technology, we've got good news for you. There are many places offering free online tech training that while may not be degree/certificate driven can still give you a leg up on the competition.While many of the courses listed here offer either a certificate or credit for a fee, they also all are free for those who just want to learn about technology or add a new skill to their "toolbox."Introduction to LinuxHave you always wanted to learn more about Linux but never had the extra cash to inveset. This course offered through edX might be just what you're looking for. The Linux Foundation partnered with edX to offer this free Introduction to the Linux that covers familiarity with the graphical interface and command line as well as a look at all the major Linux distributions. The course gives an over view of the day to day working environment of a Linux administrator and covers pertinent tools and skills.The designers of the course estimate that a total of 40- 60 hours of study are required to accurately cover the material. Students have the option of auditing the course, at no cost. You get access to course materials, tests, assignments and activities. Those who audit and complete the course will receive a certificate of achievement, but for those wanting to add it as a bullet point on their resume there is a verified certificate available for a fee.Google Analytics AcademyWith the proliferation of the Web, online shopping and social media marketing, competition for organic search traffic has gone through the roof. Understanding your website's analytics can help you make better data-based decisions while at the same time improving the customer experience. Google knows this and would love for you to use its product, Google Analytics. So much so that they've created this online learning center that offers courses to help you better use the hidden data located within your site. Building Mobile ExperiencesAnother MIT offering through edX, Building Mobile Experiences, looks at the foundation for building mobile experiences. Mobile app traffic accounted for 55 percent of Web usage, surpassing desktop to become the dominant percentage of internet traffic, illustrating the need for today's developer to become acquainted with the process, design and skills necessary to build the next "big thing."Based on a poplar MIT class that's been taught since 2006, Building Mobile Experiences' primary focus explores the analysis of mobile user behavior and the implementation of those findings in the design process. The course length is 12 weeks and requires roughly 10-12 weeks of study per week. While there is some code writing required, the bulk of the course will be designing and evaluating what a "unique mobile experience" is.Students can pay to receive a verified certificate of achievement or audit the course for free and receive and Honor Code Certificate.Microsoft Virtual AcademyMicrosoft Virtual Academy offers a host of courses on mainly -- you guessed it -- Microsoft products. They offer courses on everything from game to cloud to app development and many more. There is no cost to participate but you must use a Microsoft account and create an MVA profile. Once you're logged in you can take courses or attend live events as well as build a learning plan and track progress towards your goals.UdacityUdacity got its start when Stanford University starting offering free computer classes in 2011. In April 2014, it boasted more than 1.6 million users. Its free tech offerings include HTML , Python, Intro to Data Science and many more. In fact, Google recently partnered with Udacity to bring Android development to the masses. Individuals who access the courses for free get access to course materials, like instructor videos and project instructions. AlisonAlison offers an array of free online technical courses covering everything from, building an online business, to C programming to several flavors of Adobe training. One of their more popular tech courses is, ABC IT - Computer Training Suite which teaches users the basics of computing.Altogether the e-learning provider reports more than 3 million have used its solutions to get educated and they offer more than 600 courses. They have roughly 106 technology courses available in their Digital Literacy and Skills section.Design and Development of Educational TechnologyMassachusetts Institute of Technology offers a course entitled, Design and Development of Educational Technology via Edx, a service offering interactive online classes and MOOCs from some of the world's most distinguished universities. The course runs six week and requires 4-6 hours of study each week. The course itself covers the evolution of educational technologies and how it's being used en masse.Enrollment for the most recent ended October 8th and the course will run for 6 weeks. It's unclear at this time whether it will run again before 2015.Harvard's CS50 Computer ScienceHarvard offers this introduction to computer science. Those who participate will get a foundation in basic coding and learn aspects of C programming, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and SQL. This is a great, free way for individuals who want to learn to code to get their wish. You can enroll for Harvard credit or earn a certificate of achievement for a fee. You can also audit the course for free. Those who audit the course and achieve a satisfactory level of work will receive an Honor Code certificate.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Amazon gingerly embraces the hybrid cloud
For the past two years AWS's re:Invent conferences have primarily been about Amazon's public cloud. In 2014, no doubt the focus is still on public Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). But Amazon is starting to embrace hybrid clouds now too, at least in its own way. During the first day's keynote at re:Invent, in front of a packed crowd of more than 13,500 attendees, AWS Senior Vice President Andy Jassy said it's not a "binary decision" whether customers go all-in with AWS's public cloud or keep everything on their own premises. AWS wants to make it as seamless as possible to connect customers' existing on-premises systems with the company's market-leading public cloud.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
BlackBerry bolsters its enterprise pitch
BlackBerry announced a renewed enterprise focus on Thursday, including a partnership with Samsung that provides secure mobile software for certain Samsung Android smartphones and tablets.The software, to be available early next year, will bring together BlackBerry's new BES12 Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) software with Samsung smartphones and tablets that are embedded with Samsung's Knox security software. Models include the Galaxy S5 and Galaxy Note 4.MORE ON NETWORK WORLD: iPhoneys: Apple iPhone 6 concepts BlackBerry also named Bloomberg as a customer. "Security is a top priority for us, and this combined offering [from BlackBerry and Samsung] provides a new versatile option to the marketplace," Chris Behringer, head of enterprise mobility at Bloomberg, said in a statement.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Employee-owned PCs are scaring enterprise IT
Largely ignored in the enterprise mobility craze of the last few years, which saw the acceptance of bring-your-own device (BYOD) policies, were the risks incurred when employees use their personal computers to access business data. Now, with PCs designed to operate more seamlessly with smartphones and tablets, enterprise IT could soon face new consumerization challenges.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More
Microsoft finally fusing Yammer-Office 365 sign-on systems
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Hot products from AWS: reInvent
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Facebook gives its server racks a Tesla touch
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IBM shares plans for supercomputing future
IBM plans to load future supercomputers with more co-processors and accelerators to increase computing speed and power efficiency.Supercomputers with this new architecture could be out within the next year. The aim is to boost data processing at the storage, memory and I/O levels, said Dave Turek, vice president of technical computing for OpenPower at IBM.That will help break down parallel computational tasks into small chunks, reducing the compute cycles required to solve problems. That's one way to overcome scaling and economic limitations of parallel computing that affect conventional computing models, Turek said.+ ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD Meet the fastest supercomputers in the world +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Google quadruples Nobel Prize in Computing to $1M
ACM The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced that its annual A.M. Turing Award, sometimes called the Nobel Prize in Computing, will now come with a $1M award courtesy of Google. Previously, the award came with a $250K prize funded by Google and Intel. The award, which goes to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community," is generally doled out in February or March. This past March, the winner was Microsoft Research principal Leslie Lambert, a distributed computing wrangler.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Cisco winning SDN battle: Chambers
Cisco CEO John Chambers is claiming victory in the company's battle with SDN. If you read or listened to his somewhat chilling comments during Cisco's Q1, FY 2015 quarterly conference call this week, it's "game over": We're winning big-time on Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI) and pulling away from the start-up competitors … we are not only pulling away from, I think, while they have news left on the table, I think, it's game over, I think we have got them.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Inside look: How to land on a comet
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