Cisco has launched a new training initiative, in conjunction with EMC, to provide courseware and certifications related to today’s hottest technologies.

On 13^th June in Milton Keynes, BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT is hosting the first Using SFIA in Education and Workplace Learning conference. The conference, which is supported by The Open University and the SFIA Foundation, will look at the various uses of SFIA (the Skills Framework in the Information Age) in practical learning contexts.

Global Knowledge has a team competing in the Royals Cup football six-a-side tournament on Sunday 27^th May at the Madejski Stadium. The match offers a chance to play on the pitch alongside colleagues as approximately 30 teams go head to head for the chance to lift the prestigious Royals Cup trophy!

We have covered in this series the fact that I predict Cisco career certifications having a shift towards architectures. Whether it’s a replacement or an overlay certification I believe that there is a value in this. Those people working in a Hosted UC environment or even a TaaS (Telephony as a Service) environment could benefit.

Microsoft Word is around 27 years old and there have been many versions in that time of which the latest is version 2010.

Upgrades of Word come in pairs and Word 2007 represented a big change to the user interface (from v2003) and introduced some new functionality. Word 2010 consolidated those changes and introduced some additional features. There are many subtle differences between 2007 and 2010 but not the radical changes there were in the previous upgrade.

Microsoft used its recent Management Summit in Las Vegas to announce that the codenamed Windows 8 Server will now officially be known as Windows Server 2012, and it will appear later this year.