Google Provides Cloud Training on Coursera |
Written by Sue Gee | |||
Monday, 06 March 2017 | |||
Google has joined forces with Coursera to provide on-demand training to meet the cloud skills gap. The first course of of four-course specialization for Systems Operations Professionals starts today and so does a 1-week accelerated course introducing participants to the Big Data and Machine Learning capabilities of Google Cloud Platform. Announcing the collaboration with Coursera, Louise Byrne, Head of Cloud Training Delivery for Google Cloud writes: As more and more companies wish to take advantage of what cloud computing, data analytics and machine learning can do for their businesses, the gap between the knowledge needed to move to the cloud and the demand for such skills has grown enormously. Lack of expertise and cloud skills is often cited as the top challenge for companies wishing to migrate their business to the cloud. The Google Cloud Platform for Systems Operations Professionals Specialization is made up of four 1-week courses at an intermediate level:
While you can take the courses separately each subsequent ones relies on what you've already learned and done in the lab sessions - and while you can audit the course content for free if you want to access the labs you need to go for the paid option, which also entitles you to a course certificate if you pass all the graded assignments. For all these courses and the one described below you'll need to sign up for the Google Cloud Platform free trial (currently blocked in China) for which you require a Google/Gmail account and a credit card or bank account. Google Cloud Training is also launching an intermediate level and Coursera course for Data analysts, Data scientists and Business analysts: Google Cloud Platform Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals Provides a quick overview of the Google Cloud Platform and a deeper dive of the data processing capabilities. • Identify the purpose and value of the key Big Data and Machine Learning products in the Google Cloud Platform Participants are expected to have experience with one or more of the following: • A common query language such as SQL
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