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Talent Pool: Microsoft And Simplilearn To Create Cloud Professionals In India

Swarajya Staff

Nov 23, 2016, 03:09 PM | Updated 03:07 PM IST


Satya Nadella of Microsoft. Photo credit: Stephen Brashear/GettyImages
Satya Nadella of Microsoft. Photo credit: Stephen Brashear/GettyImages

Global professional training company Simplilearn and software giant Microsoft have come together to build a talent pool of over one lakh next generation cloud professionals in India by 2020.

As Microsoft's partner, Simplilearn will train IT professionals on Azure Cloud platform with cloud expert Bernard Golden as the course adviser and experienced Microsoft certified trainers on board.

We want to be instrumental in empowering professionals adapt to the changing digital technologies.
Simplilearn Founder and chief executive Krishna Kumar

After being trained and certified, professionals will have career opportunities in the growing cloud domain as .NET developers, solution architects and so on.

By partnering with Simplilearn, we are assured of talent in India that is skilled and up to date on cloud capabilities.
Microsoft India business development director Manohar Hotchandani

Goldman Sachs forecasts that the cloud platform and infrastructure market roughly generate $21 billion in revenues and is expected to grow by 20 per cent year after year to $43 billion by 2018.

With inputs from IANS.


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