The Cloud Technology Computer Information Systems Concentration is designed to introduce students to virtualization and cloud technologies and provide students with the technical skills required to install, configure and manage all facets of a “cloud” infrastructure. The courses in this concentration, are designed to equip students with the necessary skills to obtain the VMware Certified Professional (VCP) certification.
Career and Educational Opportunities
Educational Opportunities
Many of our courses are transferable to universities and CNM currently has transfer agreements with many colleges in New Mexico.
Employment Information
Data from Dice.com showing that the number of ads for full time IT jobs focused on cloud computing grew 344 percent between November 2009 and November 2010 should be a good indication of how quickly demand for those skills is growing. Growth in demand for server virtualization, a cloud computing precursor with much wider acceptance in the market, grew 78 percent between November 2009 and November 2010. That’s nearly double the 40 percent increase in overall IT job ads the service itself saw during that time, according to an analyst from the company (Dice.com). Virtualization and cloud computing are among the most hotly pursued skills, but not at the top of the list, John Reed, executive director of Robert Half Technology says. Application developers and web specialists take those honors, largely because companies that put projects on the shelf when the recession started are dusting them off and launching them, he says. Cloud and virtualization skills tend to fall, among RHT’s clients, with networking and security specialists, all of which are in high demand at companies that do IT for other people, engineering and consulting companies, law firms, outsourcers and management consultants, (Reed) says. Cloud computing has the potential to become a greater generator of jobs in the U.S. than the Internet was in its early years, a new study says. In addition to creating very large business opportunities and hundreds of thousands of new jobs, cloud services could also save U.S. businesses billions of dollars. The driving forces are the proliferation of mobile devices, swelling social media usage and the emergence of “Big Data,” the study found.
