Oracle Launch Asia's first

Recently - Oracle, the world’s largest enterprise software company, and Singapore Management University (SMU) had launched the Asia Pacific region’s first certification programme for Enterprise Grid Architects. The new programme will certify IT professionals to design, build and manage sophisticated enterprise grid infrastructure.

      

“Today’s announcement of the industry’s first Enterprise Grid Architect Certification Programme is testimony to Oracle’s commitment to Singapore’s development as the hub for grid computing in the Asia Pacific region,” said Michael Yap, Managing Director, Oracle Singapore. “The global grid market is expected to exceed US$12 billion by 2007¹. This course will put IT professionals in good stead to help their organisations successfully adopt enterprise grid to manage costs and improve business agility.”

    

 “I am excited about this collaboration between Oracle and SMU. It is in line with IDA’s objective to drive sophisticated adoption of Infocomm technologies among Infocomm professionals, allowing them to stay relevant, competitive and transform economic sectors,” said Khoong Hock Yun, Assistant Chief Executive (Infrastructure and Manpower Development), Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore. “With the adoption of Grid moving into the commercial space, I am confident that the Enterprise Grid Architect Certification Programme will sufficiently equip Infocomm professionals with certifications for critical and essential skills demanded by the industry.”

      

The Enterprise Grid Architect Certification Programme by SMU is a pioneering certification standard that endorses capabilities of IT professionals to design and manage the creation of enterprise grid computing environments. SMU will target to certify 60 IT professionals as enterprise grid architects over the next three years. This programme curriculum is offered by SMU’s School of Information Systems. 

      

“Grid or utility computing is one of the cornerstone strategies employed by organizations to optimize their computational resources and to enable service-oriented computing.  In this certification course, we will cover the foundational principles of designing, architecting and deploying grid based applications, allowing participants to start incorporating these emergent techniques into the application infrastructure of their organizations,” said Professor Steven Miller, Dean, School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University. “For the new academic year, SMU's School of Information Systems will also be introducing a longer version of this course for SMU undergraduates as part of their Information Systems Management degree programme. Knowledge of grid computing will be a valuable asset in their training to be a new breed of business-oriented IT professionals who have depth in both business analysis and IT solutions design.”