Tim Fitzgerald, Vice President of Avnet Cloud Solutions
As the IT industry continues to evolve at an aggressive rate,
requirements in training and certification must be adjusted to address the
changing needs of the market. Cloud services were recently recognized as the
fastest-growing segment within the IT outsourcing market,
according to Gartner
Research, highlighting cloud as a key area of opportunity for the IT industry. But with
this transition to cloud comes the need for an adequate training platform, and
Avnet Technology Solutions—a distributor of enterprise computing products, software and services—is looking to
offer just that through a new training framework developed by the recently
launched Avnet Cloud Solutions group.
“Cloud computing is an area of opportunity for many of our
partners; it’s sizeable, strategically important and growing at a fast rate
according to most industry analysts,” said Tim Fitzgerald, vice president of
Avnet Cloud Solutions, in a recent interview with IT in Canada. “We're finding
more specific workloads that are being consumed by customers of all different
shapes and sizes, via off-premise cloud computing.”
Avnet’s educational platform was designed to enable the
company’s independent software vendor, managed service provider and value-added
reseller partners in the U.S. and Canada to compete more successfully in the
off-premise cloud computing market. The framework includes fundamental,
advanced and mastery training related to developing a cloud practice and
specializing in management of high-growth off-premise cloud workloads.
Avnet Technology Solutions is focused on helping partners
grow at a faster rate. “We believe the best way to do that is to help our
partners develop deep technology competencies in domain areas of expertise—like
virtualization, storage, security, networking and mobility—and couple that with
strong vertical market expertise,” said Fitzgerald. “At the end of the day, customers
are looking to consume solutions to business problems, not just technology
problems. And that is best served when you can take that expertise in
technologies and bring those capabilities together to address a unique business
problem within a vertical market.”
