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Education Connections — Education news and information for Commvault® Customers
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WELCOME TO COMMVAULT® EDUCATION CONNECTIONs
 by Chris Sharp
Senior Director, Global Education Services
Welcome to the latest edition of Education Connections. As always, we're covering topics that underscore our commitment to educational quality and innovation. In this edition, we‘re highlighting some recent student feedback that illustrates how they’re using what they’ve learned in our courses to increase their productivity and improve the ROI of their Commvault investment.
We’ve completed scheduling for the technical training sessions to be offered at our 2017 Commvault GO™ client conference. The conference is being held Nov 6-8, at the Gaylord National Harbor, near Washington, DC. We will again be offering technical training sessions both before and after the Conference, on Nov 5-6 and Nov 9. Course descriptions appear in the article below.
We're also extending our congratulations to Mark Penny of the University of Leicester.
Mark has recently passed his Commvault Master Class certification, becoming the latest customer to achieve Master certification, and joining a small but growing elite group who have reached this level.
And finally, we’ve added a new Learning Byte to the Education Services YouTube channel.
Got questions? Please feel free to reach out to us. We would be happy to help you find the right learning path that supports your professional growth objectives and brings additional value to you and your organization.
Chris Sharp
Senior Director,
Global Education Services
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DISCOUNTED TECHNICAL TRAINING ANNOUNCED FOR COMMVAULT GO™ 2017
Make the most of your time at Commvault’s November Client Conference
Our 2017 Commvault GO™ client conference is being held November 6-8, at the Gaylord National Harbor, near Washington, DC. Once again, we’ll be offering discounted technical training sessions both before and after the conference, on November 5 and 6, and November 9. Seating for these discounted sessions is limited, so if you’re interested in attending one or more of them, visit the Commvault GO web page for more info and to register.
Here’s a listing of what’s being offered, all designed to help you get the most out of both your Commvault environment and your time at the conference. Visit our Interactive Course Catalog for the complete course description.
Sunday and Monday, November 5 and 6
- V11 New Features Update - Advanced (2 Days) — Designed for administrators and engineers who are already Professional and Engineer Certified, this course explores exciting feature enhancements and additions to the next generation of Commvault software. Learn about product changes and configuration options before upgrading to the latest Service Pack. This course focuses on feature changes including: security, indexing, deduplication, storage policies, and virtualization. Evergreen your skills and update your certification to the lastest Version 11 Service Pack.
- Workflow Fundamentals (2 Days)
— Designed for administrators and engineers who want to implement automation solutions to better control day-to-day Commvault operations, Workflow Fundamentals provides a basic understanding of the Commvault Workflow engine. This course introduces concepts such as common workflow activities, user interactions, data flow and variables, using QCommands, error checking, and using XML input files.
- Commvault Master Workshop (2 Days)
— If you’re already Master Certified, the Master Workshop provides an opportunity for deep level discussions on current and emerging technologies, design strategies, and best practices. The V11 Master Update certification exam is included with this course. The full V11 Master Certification exam is not included.
Monday, November 6
- Introduction to Commvault® Software (1 Day)
— New to Commvault or considering a purchase? Learn about the essential concepts and best practices for user security and management, media and library management, policy configuration and retention, as well as job activity and status monitoring. Learn how you can have a more efficient and effective way to manage data movement, including backup, archive, auxiliary copy, and restore, within a CommCell® group.
- V11 New Features Overview (1 Day)
— For management or technical audiences who are familiar with Commvault functionality but want a high level overview of the most recent features, the V11 New Features provides a high-level overview of enhancements and additions to the next generation of Commvault. Learn about product changes and configuration options – including security, indexing, deduplication, storage policies, and virtualization - before upgrading your Commvault environment to the latest Service Pack.
Thursday, November 9
- Commvault Security and Roles (1 Day)
— Data security is more critical today than ever before. Security starts with protecting data using encryption but providing secure access control to the data is just as important. Developed exclusively for Commvault GO, this session discusses encryption options and configurations, firewall security, and Commvault’s role-based access security.
- Cloud Fundamentals and Commvault Capabilities (1 Day)
— Developed exclusively for Commvault GO, this session will cover fundamental Cloud capabilities from primary vendors (such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure) as they pertain to IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, FaaS, and object and block storage. Conceptualizing public, private and hybrid cloud technologies, this course is designed to educate learners on current and emerging cloud technologies and how Commvault software integrates with various solutions.
Visit the Commvault GO web page for more info, and to register.
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NEW CONTENT ON THE EDUCATION SERVICES YOUTUBE CHANNEL
We’ve added a new Learning Byte for Storage Configuration and V2 Indexing to the Education Services YouTube Channel.
In this new Commvault Learning Byte, we explain Version 2 indexing, which was introduced with our Version 11 software. While it has a new internal architecture that supports some changes to the configuration and operation of Indexing, the basic information flow for indexing remains the same. You can see it here.
All 8 modules of the newly-released Commvault Quick Start course are available via both Education Advantage and on this new YouTube Channel. Additional Commvault learning content will be published there periodically for ease of access. Subscribe to the Commvault Education Services YouTube Channel to be automatically notified as new content is added.
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THE VOICE OF THE LEARNER |
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COMMVAULT TRAINING ENHANCES PRODUCTIVITY
Get the most out of your Commvault platform with Commvault Training
At Commvault, we’re always working at ways to make our software more useful to our customers, continually building in new features and functionality that can help them meet the changing needs of their businesses.
In order to take full advantage of these enhancements, we work hard to provide our students with high-value training that can help them get the most out of their Commvault investment.
To help ensure that we’re hitting that mark, we regularly survey our students, in order to get unvarnished feedback on both our courses and our instructors. And we take that feedback very seriously, adjusting both class content and delivery to address the concerns of our students, and to provide training that has a positive impact on the way they work.
In our most recent survey, we asked students to tell us how much of an impact their Commvault training was having on their productivity. A full 94% said that Commvault Training increased their productivity, with more than half of them citing productivity gains of 30% or more! This underscores what we've known all along: Better-trained users get significantly more value out of their Commvault investment, while at the same time reducing their need for Support calls! You can check out these and other interesting stats here.
Your feedback is very important to us, and helps to keep us focused on what's most important to you. So if you happen to receive an email from TechValidate requesting your opinion on your Commvault training experience, please take a moment to let us know how we are doing. We do appreciate it!
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CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT |
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MARK PENNY System Specialist (Infrastructure), University of Leicester
Commvault extends congratulations to Mark Penny of the University of Leicester.
Mark recently passed his Commvault Master Class certification, becoming the latest customer to achieve Master certification, and joining a small but growing elite group who have attained this level.
Mark has been on-board with Commvault for many years. He first started working with the product in 2010 — during the Version 7 days — and is currently managing the University’s Version 11 installation. With over 3,000 staff and 22,000 students, the University has more than 400TB of data and 800 Virtual Machines under protection, and they make use of many of the advanced features of Commvault software.
As a result of attending the Master Class event, Mark was able to take an in-depth look at the University’s Commvault installation and make some changes to improve performance.
We’d like to congratulate Mark on his Master Class achievement, and to thank him for all of the time and energy he has invested in Commvault!
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EDUCATION |
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LOOKING FOR CURRENT COURSE AND REGISTRATION INFO?
Looking for the most current course information and registration links for our global Education Services course offerings? Everything can be found online. Our complete course catalog is online and interactive! You can easily see our course offerings on a single page, with live links to detailed course descriptions, printable data sheets, schedules, and associated certification information.
Select your region to see which courses are available and in what delivery methods. Clicking through on any of the Course titles will take you to the detailed course description and even a printable data sheet. Clicking through on any of the checkmarks will take you to either the course schedule (for scheduled sessions), to the eLearning title, or to the associated certification exam for a given course.
Click here to visit our interactive course catalog. |
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