Everything’s bundled these days, from phone services to cable packages, and we’re starting to see why: It makes sense to create a comprehensive package that offers a lot of value. Similarly, we’ve bundled resources from our Insights & Tools page to help you get a better understanding of cloud computing.
Combining research and market intelligence with our educational guides and resources, Five Tools to Jumpstart Your Cloud includes a variety of resources to give you a full understanding of this emerging technology, plus related channel trends and developments in the workforce. We’ve pulled complementary tools to make your study in cloud more digestible — a mini roadmap of sorts.
“It’s an attention grabber, and we’re using it to help raise the profile of all the useful content we have,” said Stephanie Morgan, CompTIA’s director of member education. “It incorporates both research and educational content.”
This resource bundle includes an overview of cloud computing plus a handful of insights and tools thoughtfully curated to start you at the beginning and then drill down to channel specific and niche-market resources.
“The content starts with an overview of virtualization, followed by a cloud ecosystem resource that will help you understand the technical details. As you go down the list, it drills deeper down into specific information for the channel,” said Seth Robinson, CompTIA’s director of technology analysis. “This bundle also includes a CompTIA Cloud Buying Guide. It’s written for the end-user, so as a solution provider, you can use it to explain the technology to your clients, or answer any questions they have.”
Introduction to the Cloud
Five Tools to Jumpstart Your Cloud walks you through the emerging technology of cloud computing.
“This is aimed at people who are interested in cloud or curious about cloud,” Morgan said. “If you’re doing your planning in a small space, these resources are something you can use to help move to the next level, to do implementations and to really make cloud a revenue generator.”
It begins with CompTIA’s Quick Start Guide to Virtualization, a topic you must understand before undertaking cloud business. Once you’ve spent 30 minutes reading the material, you’ll have a better understanding of virtualization, its history and the role it plays in today’s cloud technology.
The bundle also includes CompTIA’s Cloud Services Buying Guide, a starting point to identifying your cloud requirements, competing needs and an ROI assessment; The Cloud Computing Ecosystem, a research brief on the basic components of cloud, plus the potential impact cloud computing can have on a business; CompTIA’s 10-Week Guide to Establishing Your Cloud Business, a comprehensive self-study guide that walks you through the steps required to get your cloud business up and running; and the Quick Start Guide to Accelerating Your Cloud Business, which provides useful guidance for accelerating the growth of your cloud business. The 10-week guide, a rich how-to resource that includes actionable advice worth thousands of dollars, will be accessible to registered users for a limited time.
“These are guides and tools to teach you about opportunities in the cloud, how to capture those opportunities and ways to make your cloud business more profitable,” Morgan said. “Packaging the material helps create an action plan for actually making it work.”
Benefits of Membership
CompTIA’s resources cover more than just the cloud. To benefit from all the resources we offer, consider membership. As a valued CompTIA member, you will have access to IT channel education and research and be able to connect with other solution providers and vendors. Through CompTIA communities, you can contribute your own knowledge, research studies and best practices. At CompTIA, we draw on our members’ expertise and experience to shape our products and services.
CompTIA membership is invaluable. Our vendor-neutral position toward the industry, coupled with our programs and communities targeted to specific verticals and market segments, allow us to craft highly customized products and services — a huge benefit to our members and organizations like your own.
Becoming a CompTIA Registered User or a Premier Member is easy. Read about both options and choose the type of membership that suits you.
Michelle Peterson is a communications specialist for CompTIA.
