SpringPeople today announced that Red Hat, world’s leading provider of open source solutions, has partnered with them to bring to the Indian IT Industry a comprehensive portfolio of globally renowned certification courses on Cloud Computing, DevOps and Middleware technologies. This collaboration is part of SpringPeople's mission of effective reskilling and upskilling of India’s 20,000 IT workforce by 2020. The partnership is intended to enable sectors such as Telecom and Banking, Financial Services and Insurance majorly. In the first phase, SpringPeople aims to enable their flagship clients such as Standard Chartered, HSBC, Fidelity, Wells Fargo, Credit Suisse, Vodafone, etc.
A recent report in collaboration with NHRD indicated that 94% of the 200 CHROs (Chief Human Resources Officers) surveyed in India were of the opinion that there is a critical need for IT professionals to re-skill in order to grow and stay relevant in their career.
Additionally, a survey conducted by The Linux Foundation this year highlights that globally 83% of IT managers prioritize the hiring of talent with expertise in open source platforms, which saw a rise in demand by 76% from 2017 among software companies. Nearly 87% of IT hiring managers are facing challenges in sourcing talent with open source skills.
To help combat this challenge, SpringPeople is working with Red Hat, among other global technology leaders, to offer IT professionals and organizations 500+ enterprise-grade training courses in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Cyber Security, IoT, Blockchain, Robotics Process Automation, etc. Combined with Red Hat’s learning content, SpringPeople’s 9+ years delivering award-winning holistic training delivery to IT clients will enable trainees with industry-leading training experience and flexible learning modes.
Commenting on the development, Vikram Motiani, Director, Global Learning Services, Red Hat, said, “We are excited to work with SpringPeople and look forward to bringing Red Hat’s hands-on, task-focused courses and certifications to an enterprise audience in India. The Red Hat Learning Subscription program provides convenient, on-demand access to the high-quality content of our traditional classrooms courses covering technologies such as Cloud Computing, DevOps, Red Hat Ansible Automation, Red Hat OpenShift, and Red Hat OpenStack. We hope the program provides enterprises with the critical skills needed for training their IT teams to stay relevant, improve performance, resolve issues faster and succeed.”
Shedding light into the objective behind the partnership, Ravi Kaklasaria, Founder & CEO, SpringPeople, said, “Globally, we are witnessing a demand for open source technologies. A 2017 survey found that 86% of open source professionals report that open source technology knowledge has enhanced their career prospects. For organizations, open source tools can help cut costs with faster time to market, achieve enterprise-level integration and also improve reliability and security across their IT infrastructure. With this relationship, we hope to meet this challenge head-on”
Certified trainers from SpringPeople’s network will complement & deliver the course offerings from Red Hat to major names in the Indian ecosystem like Fidelity, AstraZeneca, Danske IT and many more. With this partnership, SpringPeople will become one of the few hand-picked authorized providers of Red Hat’s high-quality training content in highly in-demand open source tools including OpenShift Container, OpenStack, JBoss, Enterprise Linux & more.