(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Microsoft called for IT professionals across Qatar and the wider Middle East to prepare themselves for a cloud future by sharpening their skills in Microsoft Azure, through the company's cloud trainings and certifications .
Azure trainings and certifications run as a blend of scheduled and on-demand online courses, covering generalised and niche, cloud-focused subject areas for getting up to speed with Azure. IT Pros can choose to learn in Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) with labs, or study for a test and take a certification exam. Completing any MOOC includes a digital certificate of completion, and passing a certification exam earns IT Pros the related certification and its digital badges.
'Microsoft's cloud trainings allow IT professionals to broaden their horizons by gaining practical, instantly applicable cloud skills, said Necip Ozyucel, Cloud Enterprise Business Solutions Lead, Microsoft Gulf.
'Whether beginner or expert, we have the course to help them level up in their cloud career. We have invested heavily in Azure training, because our global reach and Azure's versatility means it is a platform that can fit any need, no matter the business scale, no matter the industry.
A recent worldwide survey conducted by Microsoft showed a marked increase in the salaries of cloud professionals, as companies recruit for their digital transformation journeys. The survey also noted that 37% of respondents in the Middle East and Africa region cited a skills gap as the main barrier to cloud adoption.
'In the GCC, governments have initiated bold economic-development visions centred on technology, said Ozyucel. 'In the context of digital transformation, that means cloud, so the surge in demand for cloud specialists is to be expected.
An IDC forecast from 2015 projects that by 2020, more than one in three IT positions worldwide will be cloud related and that the cloud-readiness of professionals will start to have a significant impact on operations. The report also suggested IT employment worldwide will grow by around 4 percent every year up to 2020, and that all growth will occur in cloud-related positions.
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