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Instructor Spotlight: A Bit About Joseph Holbrook

If you’ve watched any of our Google or Blockchain courses, you may be familiar with Joseph Holbrook. Continue reading to learn more about this talented course author:

Joe Holbrook has been in the IT field since 1993 when he was exposed to several HPUX systems on board a US Navy flagship. He has migrated from UNIX world to Storage Area Networking(SAN) and then onto Enterprise Virtualization and Cloud Architecture. In the past, Joe has worked for numerous companies like HDS, 3PAR Data, Brocade, Dimension Data, EMC, Northrup Grumman, ViON, Ibasis.net, Chematch.com, SAIC and Siemens Nixdorf. Currently he’s a Subject Matter Expert specializing in Cloud/IT Security focused on Data Storage infrastructure services and Data migrations to the Cloud.

Joe holds Industry leading certifications from Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Brocade, Hitachi Data Systems, EMC, VMWare, CompTIA, HP 3PAR ASE, Cloud Credential Council and other orgs. He is now working on the Google Cloud Platform for several organizations.

Joe is married with children and lives in Jacksonville, Florida. In his free time, he enjoys traveling to South America, spending time with my 5 year old daughter and learning about cryptocurrencies. He is also an avid hockey fan and enjoys Continue reading

New To The INE Course Library: AWS Automation Options

We’ve added another AWS course to our Collection. This course is 6 hours and 18 minutes long and taught by James Fogerson. You can view this, and all of our other AWS courses, by logging into your streaming account.

 

This course will provide guidance on the various native options that can be used to script and deploy AWS resources. The course will cover a number of options from the easiest (Elastic Beanstalk) to the most complex (CloudFormation). AWS Opsworks and the CLI will also be covered and a brief introduction to Opscode Chef will also be included as an alternative to native CloudFormation. The course will be somewhat detailed but should allow the viewer to follow along so that he/she can create their own resources.

Check Out Our New Software Testing Course – Software Testing QA: A Comprehensive Overview





Instructor: Justin Spears

Course Duration: 1hr 45min



About the Course

The modern accessibility of public, private and hybrid cloud environments has led rise to a bastion of cloud-centric practices. One of the most notable is the idea of QA and Testing in the cloud. This course will describe the concepts, methodologies and implementations of testing in a cloud environment. We will go through the full software QA lifecycle and describe where and how each component of that lifecycle can be offloaded into the cloud and further describe methods and mechanisms on how to do so effectively.

We’ve Added Another Blockchain Course To Our Video Library!

 

This Course is By Joseph Holbrook and is 4 hours and 34 minutes long. You can view the full course on our streaming Site, or buy the course at ine.com.

A blockchain is a tamper-evident, shared digital ledger that records transactions in a public or private peer-to-peer network. Distributed to all member nodes in the network, the ledger permanently records, in a sequential chain of cryptographic hash-linked blocks, the history of asset exchanges that take place between the peers in the network. This course has been designed for technical architects, pre sales architects, developers and project managers who must make technical decisions about distributed architectures and development platforms.

Check Out Our New Network Programmability Course

Course Title: The Full Stack Engineer’s Guide to Network Programmability with Python
Course Duration: 30 hrs 33 min

 

The Full Stack Engineer’s Guide to Network Programmability with Python will provide learners with an inductive and comprehensive introduction to the Python programming language to include the various data types, control flow structures, functions, methods, classes, objects, reading and writing files, data storage using MySQL, and regular expressions. We will also cover on- and off-box Python automation and explore the guest shell in IOS-XE!

The Top 5 Fastest Growing Jobs In The IT Sector


There’s no easy path to success in the IT sector, but there are certainly ways to increase your chances of having a rewarding career. One of the ways is knowing which fields in IT have the most potential for future growth. There are a lot of great choices out there, but as technology changes, so does the demand for certain positions. That’s why it’s crucial to plan for your training in advance, and lock in on an area where forecasters expect rapid growth over the next few years. Choose from the following list of the fastest growing IT jobs to land a rewarding position that’s certain to last.


1. Data Scientist


Not surprisingly, data science is one of the fastest growing and most lucrative jobs in the IT sector. Data scientists wrestle with big data on a daily basis. They use their advanced skills in programming, mathematics, and statistics to organize enormous amounts of jumbled data into a more usable form.
The work of the data scientist doesn’t stop there. Once they make this data more manageable, they use their analytical skills to solve a variety of business and financial problems. These skills include industry specific knowledge, contextual awareness, and Continue reading

We’ve Added A New Cybersecurity Certified Penetration Testing Engineer Course To Our Library!

Cybersecurity has become an integral part of any IT system. This course is focused on the 5 key elements of penetration testing: Information Gathering, Scanning, Enumeration, Exploitation, and Reporting. These key areas build upon each other and provide you with the technical know-how to gear you up for a career in penetration testing.


 


Who Should Watch:

This course is for students who want to become a penetration tester. It is recommended to have at least 3 years experiences with networking and basic security knowledge. Other cybersecurity certifications are always a help.


What You’ll Learn:

In this course you will learn the required skills to pass the CPTE demonstration practical knowledge of penetration testing and cybersecurity. At the end of this course you will have the understanding of the basic course requirements to pass the exam and conduct penetration tests.


About The Instructor:

Joe Brinkley has over 10 years of professional IT and Information Security experience under his belt. Joe has always been a tinkerer, geek and all around “computer guy.” He has numerous certifications including the CPTE.

All Access Pass members can view this course on our streaming site. You can also purchase this course at ine.com.

Don’t Miss Keith Bogart’s Live Webinar! Deciphering Spanning-Tree Technologies

Tune in Tomorrow, May 31st, at 10 am PDT/ 1 pm EDT for a FREE live webinar with expert instructor Keith Bogart (CCIE #4923).

 


About This Webinar:

Understanding the logic of 802.1d and how it builds a loop-free “tree” is critical to passing any Cisco certification exam. Presented by INE instructor Keith Bogart (CCIE #4923), this session will take you through that logic so that, given any bridged/switched layer-2 network, you can predict what tree will be formed. Ask questions live with an experienced industry expert!

We’ve Added a CCIE Security v5 Technology Course to Our Video Library!

Check out our latest edition to the INE Library – CCIE Security v5 Technologies: IKEv1 IPsec VPN. This is the latest installment of our CCIE Security v5 technologies series, and focuses on Internet Key Exchange version 1 (IKEv1), Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) and related topics.

 


About this Course:

This course is taught by Piotr Kaluzny and is 2 hours and 27 minutes long. This course is part of a thirty video series covering the CCIE Security v5 Blueprint.


What You’ll Learn:

The course starts with a discussion of basic VPN concepts, followed by a detailed overview of the protocols and hands-on demonstrations. This course also serves as an introduction to more advanced VPN technologies, such as DMVPN or GETVPN.

You can view this course by visiting our streaming site or by purchasing the course at ine.com.

What to Expect: CCIE Security Written Exam Bootcamp

Whether you’ve just started your CCIE training journey, or are already several months along, an INE bootcamp can help get you to where you need to be before taking the CCIE Written or lab exam. This blogpost is for anyone who may be interested in attending a CCIE Security bootcamp but is hesitant to dive in. Keep reading to find out what a bootcamp is and what you should expect when attending a CCIE Security Bootcamp with INE.

What is a Bootcamp?
Bootcamps are intensive, live classes that typically last from 5-7 days. Bootcamps allow you to dive further into your study path in a small classroom environment with an in-person, expert INE instructor leading the way. Each bootcamp class will cover a specific list of topics tailored to the Cisco track and certification level you are studying. Our instructors will customize the training to focus on certain topics and technologies that best meet the individual requests of the students in your bootcamp.

What to expect: Instructor’s Point of View
In this short video, our CCIE Security instructor, Rohit Pardasani, explains what topics he typically covers in a bootcamp and what the environment is like.

 

 

 
What to Continue reading

Check Out Our New Overview of Microsoft Azure Course!

Maybe your company has decided to move to the Cloud and you need to know what Azure is and how to create resources, or maybe you want to learn Azure so you can add it to your resume.  Either way, this short course will explain what Azure is, the difference between PaaS and IaaS, and how to create resources in Azure.

 


Why You Should Watch

This simple step-by-step class will teach you the basics of Cloud services and provide a solid foundation of knowledge to build on. Given the amount of services available on Azure, it would be impossible to learn each one with just one class, so this course covers the basics of storage, networking, virtual machines, SQL databases, and web apps. Through the discussion of these 5 topics, we can effectively demonstrate how Azure works and how to set up different services in Azure.


What You’ll learn

After viewing Overview of Microsoft Azure, you will have a basic understanding of Azure and its abilities, and be better prepared for the Azure exams.


About the Author

Jonathan started in the electronics field and moved into the IT field after relocating to the U.S., he has Continue reading

We’ve Added a CCIE Security v5.0 Lab Exam Review to Our Video Library!

Prepare to pass your CCIE Security v5 Lab Exam with confidence. Join 5-time CCIE, Rohit Pardasani, for 20+ hours of intensive, hands-on training that will set you up for success.

 


Why You Should Watch

Not only will you refine your skills and expand your knowledge of the blueprint technologies, you will also learn to change the way you think about problems and how to derive solutions. In addition to helping you pass your exam, this course gives you real-world practical knowledge to carry you past the CCIE lab and into everyday applications that you’ll use as a CCIE in the field.


Course Details

This course is taught by Rohit Pardasani and is 22 hours and 35 minutes long. You can view the course on our streaming site, or purchase it at ine.com.

Tune in to Our Q&A tomorrow!


Don’t miss our CCNA/CCNP Kickoff with Keith Bogart Tomorrow!

 

Join Keith May 8th at 10 am PST/ 1 pm EST for his CCNA/CCNP Kickoff.

This is a FREE live session that is open to everyone. In this open forum, you’ll have the opportunity to ask Keith all of your questions regarding the CCNA or CCNP Routing & Switching exam and related technologies.

Get all of your questions answered by an experienced industry expert! Just click here.

Don’t Miss Keith Bogart’s May CCNA Kickoff!

It’s that time again! Tune in on May 7 at 10 am PST/ 1 pm EST for our monthly CCNA Kickoff session with expert instructor Keith Bogart.

 

This is a FREE session in which Keith (CCIE #4923) will present everything you need to know to get started on your CCNA journey.


What Keith will cover in this months webinar:

  • How to get started by making a study schedule
  • Strategies to prevent you from becoming overwhelmed throughout the exam process
  • CCNA certification test format
  • Which topics to study, and how in depth
  • What study tools will be the most useful
  • What to expect when you walk into the testing center

You can view this, and all of our other webinars here.

New to the INE Course Library: Infrastructure as Code in AWS With Terraform

This course will teach you how to use Terraform to provision your AWS infrastructure. It will guide you through setting up Terraform with your AWS account and take you through creating your first resource with Terraform in AWS.

 

About the Course:

This course is taught by Kevin Holditch and is 4 hours and 28 minutes long.

What You’ll Learn:

  • All of the resource types Terraform can create and how you can use variables to create more advanced infrastructure setups
  • How to group a set of resources into a reusable module allowing you to easily create common setups again and again

We’re Excited To Introduce Our First Blockchain Technology Course!

The Blockchain is disrupting industries and certainly not just the financial sector. Technological innovation can impact more than our daily lives and perhaps it can effectively disrupt entire industries. The Blockchain is already impacting the processing of payments for international settlements. The Blockchain is now one of the most sought after technical skills and is expected grow exponentially. In a recent report by Deloitte named “Deloitte’s 2018 Outlook” highlights the growth of Blockchain Technology.

 

Whether you’re a PHP developer, pre sales engineer, or a networking architect, the Blockchain is now at the forefront of technologies to know.

In this course we will cover key aspects around Blockchain and Bitcoin, including: What is a Blockchain? What is Bitcoin? What are smart contracts? What is a cryptocurrency? What are digital tokens? How are Blockchain and Bitcoin related and why is it so important to know the relation? We will also cover Some common misconceptions about Blockchain and Bitcoin and discuss Ethereum as a primary example of a common open source Blockchain.

Get Started Here.

We’ve Launched Our New Bootcamps Site!

The INE Bootcamps site is finally here! We constantly strive to make our products and buying experience better, which is why we decided to give our bootcamps their very own website. As INE continues to grow, we plan on rolling out even more bootcamp dates, locations and types, all of which can now be found at bootcamps.ine.com.

What You’ll Find On Our Bootcamps Site:

  • Full description and details about CCIE Routing and Switching, Data Center, Collaboration, Service Provider and Security certifications and exams
  • Full description and details about CCNP and CCNA Routing & Switching certifications and exams
  • Full description and details about GCP Cloud Architect certification and exam
  • Detailed description of prerequisites for all tracks and vendors
  • Recommended path, outlining exactly what products you’ll need for each track and in what order to use them to ensure you pass your exams the first time
  • All of our bootcamp offerings for all tracks and vendors, including details about pricing, dates, and what to expect from each bootcamp
  • Detailed descriptions of each of our bootcamp locations


Ready to get started on your certification journey? Check out our Bootcamps Site for yourself.

We’ve Added a New AWS Big Data Course to Our Video Library!

Cloud service providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS) are leading the way to cloud adoption across all industries, changing the way organizations interact with their data. Board rooms already know they need to move to the cloud so it’s important to understand the how’s and the why’s of your cloud journey. AWS has built and made available powerful tools and services to support the most demanding big data workloads. You no longer need to be a data scientist to take advantage of complex data analytics tools, as AWS has made these tools within reach both from a technical and cost perspective to the masses.


Why You Should Watch:

If you’d like to learn how to minimize the complexity of big data pipelines, this course is for you.
Growing your skills in big data and analytics positions you to help fill the massive skills gap that exist for this high wage in-demand job sector.


What You’ll Learn:

The AWS Certified Big Data Specialty course is designed to give students a solid foundation of AWS Services related to a big data pipeline. The hands-on exercises in this course demonstrates the speed of innovation that can be gained using the AWS Cloud services. Continue reading

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