As part of the MoU deal, Xebia Academy Global will design the course syllabus and create study modules containing high-quality and industry-specific content, along with placement opportunities for graduates.

Xebia Academy Global

In addition, Xebia will also help strengthen the university’s faculty by building a team comprised of knowledgeable educators and subject matter experts.

According to a press release, the B.Tech programme will focus mainly on the future-oriented field of DevOps. Its course structure has been designed in such a way that it helps address the workforce skills gap by providing students with relevant knowledge that helps improves their skills.

The course development structure, which comprises of course materials, assignments, and training sessions, will be piloted under the guidelines and expertise of Xebia’s DevOps specialists.

“In a world where the development of societies and nations is based on the symbiosis of technology, the knowledge, and applications of DevOps, are soon going to become an indispensable part of learning for engineering students,” said Dr.P. Prakash, Vice Chancellor of SRM University.

From inventing customised solutions for businesses to developing algorithms that help in analysing consumer behaviour, the future is unthinkable without this disruptive technology,” he added.  

Next-generation skills

Through the agreement, Xebia aims to equip students with next-generation skills by providing them with “hands-on-training”. It will not only equip the next generation of students with the skills to flourish, but it will also help enhance their perspective on how they approach critical thinking, problem-solving and handle real-world problems.

“Xebia is committed to leverage industries and academia with cutting-edge technologies and training programs. By introducing this program to the students, we are going to address the skills shortage in the industry and make the students job-ready,” said Brijesh Kohli, the Director of Xebia Academy Global.

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The results of the 2018 survey revealed that the global median pay for DevOps experts now stands at $90k (£69.2k).

The survey also suggests that this year’s salary drop could be because there were fewer respondents taking part in this year’s survey.

According to the salary survey, the majority of survey respondents were male, with only 4% of responses coming from female DevOps professionals.

The survey also states that salaries increase depending on an employee’s age, experience and role.

While income is heavily dependent on a company’s location, DevOps professionals who work for a larger company are likely to earn more.

The average pay for companies employing two-to-100 employees is slightly over $78k (£59.8k), compared to the $114K (£87.5k) in companies that employ more than 10,000 employees.

Factors that determine a DevOps income
The survey points out that professional’s salaries can also fluctuate depending on the industry they’re working in.

The highest median pay is the healthcare sector, with professionals earning a potential salary of up to $113k (£86.7k). The lowest median pay is the educational sector, with most professionals earning an income of $74k (£56.8k).

However, most DevOps professionals tend to work in the software industry where the average salary is $95k (£72.9k).

The average salary for those who code 20 or more hours a week is $82k (£62.9k) compared to the $94k (£72.1k) for those coding between one to three hours per week.

The survey also states that those who have experience with programming languages software, such as Python,  can earn a median income of $86.3k (£66.2k).

Employees who have experience using other software’s like PHP and Go pay better, can earn a median income of $90k (£69k) and $102 (£78.3k).

Commenting on the results of the survey, Nikki McDonald, Content Director and Chair of the Velocity Conference said, “DevOps remains a thriving field with many opportunities for learning and advancement. Yet it’s also one that moves quickly, and choosing the right trends and technologies to focus on can be rewarded with larger pay checks.”

“While the dominance of certain programming languages continues, we expect to see new ones emerge and others fall away as more companies move to the cloud and micro services-based architectures. Ops professionals seeking advancement would do well to keep learning and expanding their skills sets in these areas.”

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In 2016, Microsoft, Amazon and Google all cut prices of some of their cloud products in a bid to win over more customers.

Since then, Google has taken the cloud space by storm, focussing mainly on product value instead of cost.

Last year, Snapchat’s parent Snap was spending double the amount on Google’s cloud instead of Amazon’s cloud.

Spotify also recently revealed that it will be spending US$450million on Google’s Cloud over the next three years, despite previously being a “prominent Amazon cloud customer”.

With the hope of driving usage of their cloud products among existing customers, Microsoft and Amazon are now rolling out more cloud products to appeal to customers in a variety of industries, as well as investing in customer education.

Written by Leah Alger

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The new course will soon include the ‘DevOps Advanced’ certification course as part of its DevOps curriculum.

At the end of the 3-day course, students will take the leading examination to the ‘DevOps Essentials Certificate’, administered by professionals.

Troy DuMoulin, vice president for research and development at Pink Elephant, said: “To achieve worthwhile DevOp results, IT professionals should not just focus narrowly on one area, such as automation, they need to understand the complete holistic approach we call ‘The Full Stack’ of success criteria.”

DuMoulin also noted the course provides a “fresh and unique” perspective of DevOps through the “Full Stack” approach, which identifies three critical success factors of automation, culture and practices.

Written from press release by Leah Alger

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The mobile, online and digital market research specialist predicted that several factors would “prove instrumental” in driving the market forward, and the perception of high software costs alongside low awareness of eCommerce solutions.

The main issues it found was that IoT devices are going to be key in driving FDP and citing IoT botnets from Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS), aimed at fraud automation tools, whilst requiring better customer verification tools.

Juniper also predicted that the launch of 3DS 2.0 will reduce fraud and verify solutions as part of an FDP strategy, resulting in fewer basket abandonments.

Research Author, Steffen Sorrel, said: “APIs expose a set of business logic rules, which by their nature are susceptible to abuse. This will drive banks and service providers to greater emphasis on protecting those APIs.”

The research concluded that Latin America, Indian Subcontinent and Africa will become key targets for banking and payments fraud, whilst accounting for 4% of global FDP spent in 2022; addressing that consumer protection and better consumer education in safer online practices is key.

Written from press release by Leah Alger

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The arrival of artificial intelligence (AI) will lead to fewer job, said 76% of young people who are worried that robots skills will stand out more because of lack of work experience at a young age.

Supporting young people, the Young Enterprise Charity and Financial Education polled 200 young business-minded individuals for its report ‘Robot revolution: The impact of artificial intelligence on entrepreneurs and job prospects.’

Robots forcing students to learn new skills

The report findings found that 59% of participants are worried about not finding a job that a robot could do; with 33% believing that robots with problem solving and team working skills will force students to learn new skills before leaving education.

“The rise of the robots will have a devastating impact on job prospects for young people who have not been equipped with basic work skills,” said Michael Mercieca, CEO at Young Enterprise.

“Its time to wake up and recognise education must extend beyond academia and properly prepare the next generation for the world of work with skills like communication, teamwork and creativity,” he added.

Another survey that differently consisted of 111,362 participants and was created by www.gov.uk similarly showed that more than 10% of workers believe that 20% of daily tasks could be taken over by robots.

Written by Leah Alger

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Working in collaboration with the Moscow Physics and Technology Institute, Bacelona’s Harbour.Space University will welcome 150 students from top universities to train for one week in preparation for the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM-ICPC).

The programming bootcamp

The Hello Barcelona ACM-ICPC Bootcamp will bring to Europe the coaches of the famed “Moscow Workshops” who trained 8 of the 13 world finalists in the 2016 ACM-ICPC contest. This will be the first time that one of the world’s strongest programming pedagogies will be on offer in a European bootcamp.

Working in collaboration with Kaspersky Lab and Codeforces, the Hello Barcelona bootcamp will gather students from universities such as Cornell University, École Normale Supérieure, and University of Tokyo.

The Olympics of programming

Supported by IBM, the ACM-ICPC is the “Olympics of programming,” the premiere global computer programming competition conducted by and for the world’s top universities.

In 2016, 40,266 contestants from 2,736 universities in 102 countries competed at over 481 sites to advance to the World Finals. The 2017 finals will be held in Rapid City, South Dakota, in the United States.

The ACM-ICPC competitors, who will gather in Barcelona to train, represent the bright minds who will shape the digital future.

“Hello Barcelona Bootcamp participants are not just talented students that win competitive programming competitions. They are some of the hardest working and most brilliant minds of the ongoing digital revolution. We cannot really anticipate the full impact they will have,” said Mike Mirzayanov, Founder of Codeforces.

Contributions to the software industry

Former ACM-ICPC finalists have made remarkable contributions to the software industry. They include Adam D’Angelo, the former CTO of Facebook and founder of Quora, Nikolai Durov, the former CTO of VK and Telegram, Matei Zaharia, creator of Apache Spark, Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos and a venture capitalist, Craig Silverstein, the first employee of Google.

“We are very excited to be launching the Hello Barcelona ACM-ICPC Bootcamp. Our mission is to make a meaningful contribution to the global ACM-ICPC community and to give teams access to one of the world’s best programming training regimens,” said Svetlana Velikanova, Harbour.Space University Founder and CEO.

Find out more and learn how you can participate

Hello Barcelona ACM-ICPC Bootcamp is open to all university students and their coaches from around the world. More information, including on how to register, attending the workshop and on how to participate in other ways, is available at: http://in.harbour.space/icpc.

Edited from press release by Jordan Platt.

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Business simulations to aid IT training

GamingWorks designs, develops and deploys professional business simulations or serious games aimed at solving the issues describes above and supporting organisational learning and development. The ‘learning-by-doing’ solutions are used by a worldwide network of professional partners.

“The firm launched 15 years ago, with its business simulation for Apollo 13, allowing companies to get the most out of ITSM/ITIL training,” Schilt says. “We’ve grown, expanded globally and now offer 6 different scenarios from process management to cyber security, ITIL, and most recently DevOps.”

Business simulations are often customised to firms, to meet their learning objectives. Then, typically, 10-12 people join for a full day’s collaborative learning in a workshop, Schilt explains. The tasks start easy and get harder as the day goes on; ensuring team members challenge each other and themselves throughout the day.

Soft skills needed for DevOps professionals

There is a demand and necessity for soft skills amongst firms taking on a DevOps transformation.

“When you look at DevOps and its success/fail factors, it always comes back to people,” Schilt says. “It’s about communication, interaction, and continuous learning.”

These are skills, Schilt argues, that you cannot pick up in foundation classes where 20+ students passively sit and listen and come out with a diploma.

“All the success factors, communication and continuous learning etc. can only be learned through practice,” Schilt says. “Which is why it’s so great to get people together in a room, let them experience DevOps in practice – use communication skills, use Kanban, develop flow, actually do continuous learning. It makes a massive difference.”

Learning from past mistakes

There is a growing interest in simulation-based learning. Schilt believes it to be as a result of learning from past mistakes.

“I think the industry is learning from the days of ITIL implementation. It was a big drama for many organisations, where despite money being invested in traditional training and courses, it was hard to transfer knowledge into day-to-day work,” he says. “Now there’s an increased understanding of the importance of soft skills, and the different ways to develop these skills amongst team members.”

The Phoenix Project

GamingWorks’ DevOps simulation draws upon expertise from a familiar DevOps thought leader.

“Our simulation is based on Gene Kim’s The Phoenix Project, and we put people in the context of the book for a day,” Schilt says. “They get to live the project from start to beginning, and experience first hand the positives that DevOps can bring to a team project.”

Jan will be speaking on The Phoenix Simulation at the DevOps Enterprise Summit.

Written by Cecilia Rehn

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The report, Amplifying Human Potential: Education and Skills for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, commissioned by Infosys and conducted by independent research agency Future Foundation, polled 1000 young people per country, aged between 16 and 25, in Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Overall, while youth across all surveyed countries understood the role that technology will play in their careers and the need to advance their own skills, there is a clear disparity in technical confidence and job opportunities among developed and emerging economies.

Recognition of the importance of computer sciences subjects

Respondents acknowledged the role of technology skills in securing good career opportunities, with clear majorities in both emerging (74% in India and 71% in China) and developed countries (60% in France and 59% in the UK) stating that computer sciences subjects were key education tools.

IT skills and knowledge surging in emerging markets

The data further shows a large technical knowledge gap between emerging and developed economies. For example, there is a 30% gap between Indian young men (81%) and their counterparts in the US (51%). Among female respondents, the gap is 28% between India (70%) and the US (42%), and 37% with the UK (33%).

Existing education systems failing to support future career goals

In the US, 45% of those polled considered their academic education to be very or quite old-fashioned, and that it failed to support career goals, compared to 37% in China. In the UK and Australia, 77% had to learn new skills themselves in order to do their jobs, as their school or university education had not prepared them for the workplace, compared to 66% in India.

The workforce of tomorrow also understands that as technology increasingly takes away routine tasks, they will need to pursue lifelong learning to develop new skills and focus on “soft” skills that computers will not be as adept at handling.

In terms of retraining if necessary, around 80% of young people across all markets concur that continuous development of skills is essential to be successful in work. Between 78% (Brazil) and 65% (China) of 16-25 year olds are willing to completely retrain if required.

The development soft skills

Apparent across all regions is the role that communications, relationship-building and problem-solving abilities play in modern, technology-driven workplaces. While academic achievement was prioritized by between 50% (South Africa) and 36% (Germany), communications and on-the-job learning and problem-solving polled far higher. Communication skills polled between 86% (Australia) and 79% (Brazil), while on-the-job learning polled between 85% (Brazil) and 76% (Germany).

Gender gap in IT unresolved, wider in Western Europe

Young men, across all countries surveyed, are more likely to have existing IT knowledge and the desire to advance these skills. In emerging markets such as India (81% male to 70% female) and China (68% male to 59% female) as well as developed economies such as the US (51% male to 42% female), the gap is far less pronounced with higher levels of perceived competency in the emerging economies. However, in other developed economies such as France (49% male to 24% female), Germany (49% male to 26% female) and the UK (62% male to 33% female), gender gap in technology skills is significantly wider.

Disruptive forces on the technology job market

Overall, young people are aware that the Fourth Industrial Revolution will usher several disruptive forces in the job market: from the next-gen Internet of Things and Big Data, to work environments that will be drastically changed by automation, artificial intelligence and similar technologies. Today’s youth understands that it must be agile, open to learning and capable of operating in a global environment to build a long-term career path.

Edited from press release by Cecilia Rehn.

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