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With a focus of assisting IT professionals as well as aspirants to acquire skills of cloud computing, IIHT, in collaboration with Microsoft, unveiled the IIHT-certified Cloud Expert program on Friday. The course will help the students to enhance their skills in virtualization solutions, IT infrastructure monitoring along with management and private cloud designing and deployment skills.

Besides this, the IIHT also introduced ‘Learning-as-a-Service’ program with the help of Microsoft Virtualisation Technologies. The Dell Enterprise Server Solutions is believed to offer its services to power the program.

While briefing the program, the Chief Executive Officer and MD of the IIHT, Keshava Raju notified that the course duration will be 600 hours and will cost around 80,000. Further, he emphasized that the course is outlined with aim to train IT professionals in cloud technologies. The IIHT is looking forward to train and certify approximately 10,000 cloud professionals, across the world, during the coming three years.

Meanwhile, it has been reported that an intellectual from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has hailed Taiwan for making some modification as it swaps to cloud computing technology. Speaking at the Global Views Business Forum, the Director of the MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Victor Zue explained: "Cloud computing is disruptive, and it will have a significant impact on Taiwan's ICT industry in the next decade, especially in software-centric research and development”. Zue has expressed confidence that the computer market will be experiencing some dramatic changes

The forum was established in 2003 and credits to feature around 70 speakers from several fields including green energy, finance, and medical science. According to a report, the forum is believed draw more than 400 business leaders from different countries including the United States, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.