Service Portfolio Real World Example – Cloud Services Provider

In a recent post, I gave an overall description of a service portfolio and the key components of a portfolio. Here, I will describe how a cloud services provider might implement an ITIL service portfolio. A cloud services provider will regularly have a set of services under development, a set of service in live operation, and a set of services that are retired.

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Cloudera Certifications: A Q&A with Brad Johnson

With over 20 years of experience in instructional and testing design, Brad Johnson managed training and certification programs for organizations such as Sun Microsystems, Visa, and the University of Colorado. He currently manages Apache Hadoop certification at Cloudera University and recently completed the testing upgrades to CDH 4.1 We had the chance to sit down with him and discuss the importance and future of Cloudera Training for Apache Hadoop.

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