Best Virtualization Certifications for 2015
In today’s competitive IT job market, virtualization is a must-have technology skillset, fueled by the exploding popularity of virtualization and cloud computing. IT pros can get started in this red hot technology space with these top five virtualization certifications for 2015.
In both up and down economic times over the last several years, IT job opportunities related to virtualization have remained an unadulterated “hot spot” on the job market. As we looked at top IT jobs, top IT pay and top IT certification surveys for the last five years, in fact, we saw at least one virtualization entry in every single one of them, and occasionally more than one. That makes it nearly unanimous that virtualization is a good set of skills and knowledge for any IT professional who works with systems, networks, or IT infrastructure or architecture to pursue and possess.
Virtualization is a technology space where the platform rules. This explains why the top certifications are from vendors who offer their own specific virtualization platforms and tools. These leading companies include VMware, Citrix, Red Hat, Oracle and Microsoft. Though there are other virtualization players in this niche, they don’t really compete with these large and well-established companies. (We’ll mention others briefly, and provide links, in the conclusion to this article.)
Table 1: Job Board Search Results
Now let’s step through the top five virtualization certifications for 2015:
