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Volume 2, Issue 3 March 2003 |
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hp certified professional Americas monthly newsletter Volume 2, Issue 3 March 2003 |
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Transition/Migration Information...what do I need to do?
As the integration of the pre-merger databases continues, plans are still in place to send individuals personalized letters about their certification status beginning in April 2003. Clarification: Letters regarding revocation of certification In January 2002, Continuing Certification Requirements were set forth, allowing a year for participants to comply. We regret to inform you that your certification as an HP Certified Professional specializing in "Plan_Description" was revoked effective January 31, 2003. The third paragraph is not indicative of your individual certification, but was used as an example of how other certifications you hold could be affected. The HP Certified Professional Program architecture is structured so that each level of certification may be used as a prerequisite for another level of certification. Due to the loss of your ASE level of certification, other certifications you may hold could be affected. Example:
If you feel you received this letter in error, please write to us at certification.americas@hp.com and include the following:
The universe of HP technologies has expanded and we're working to meet your educational needs in this new environment. This year, the annual HP World Conference & Expo and the HP Enterprise Technical Symposium will be merged into a single, integrated conference. The new HP World 2003 Solutions and Technology Conference & Expo is not only the largest annual gathering of IT professionals employing HP solutions, services and technologies, it's now the most comprehensive. Produced by the Interex and Encompass user groups in partnership with HP, the five-day conference delivers training seminars, tutorials and sessions, panels, networking opportunities and an exposition covering the breadth and depth of the expanded HP portfolio. The event will take place in Atlanta August 11-15, 2003. The integrated conference, which will target IT decision-makers (including CIOs and CTOs), line-of-business managers, and technical users and developers, will be organized by content tracks. The weeklong program will feature knowledgeable speakers, including well-known IT leaders and many senior executives from HP.
If you'd like to participate on a team to provide input on what the content needs to be, please send a note to the Americas mailbox: certification.americas@hp.com ... and, we'll be in touch. In addition to the educational program, the conference will include the industry's largest exposition focused on HP solutions and technology. More than 160 vendors are expected to participate in the 220,000-square-foot expo hall. For more information about HP World 2003 Solutions and Technology Conference & Expo, visit these sites: Encompass press release about HP World: http://www.encompassus.org/images/pdfs/hpworldpressrelease.pdf Interex press release about HP World: http://www.interex.org/conference/hpworld2003/images/hpw.PressRelease.pdf HP World 2003 Solutions and Technology Conference & Expo web site: http://www.hpworld.com/conference/hpworld2003/about.html
You will find the March 2003 edition of the ISS Technology Update at ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/hpcp/newsletter_march2003/issmarch2003newsletter.doc. This newsletter is specifically for HP Certified Professionals with a strong interest in industry standard servers.
The Business Critical Systems Group publishes a technical newsletter intended for HP channel partners. However, we've taken excerpts of that newsletter and made them available to the entire HPCP community here: ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/hpcp/newsletter_march2003/march2003technicalconnecti.doc. If you are a channel partner, you'll want to read the regular Technical Connection newsletter that comes to you via the HP partner programs instead of this subset of information, as there is information that applies strictly to resellers. If you don't get Technical Connections, stay up on the latest news from BCS by reading this document.
The Network Storage Solutions Group publishes a technical newsletter intended for HP channel partners. However, we've taken excerpts of that newsletter and made them available to the entire HPCP community here: ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/hpcp/newsletter_march2003/storagenewslettersubsetfo.doc. If you are a channel partner, you'll want to read the regular Storage technical newsletter that comes to you via the HP partner programs instead of this subset of information, as there is information that applies strictly to resellers. If you don't get the Storage newsletter, stay up on the latest storage news by reading this document.
Although BrainShare will take place a month later this year, April 13 - 18 in Salt Lake City, it is guaranteed to be bigger and better. BrainShare attendees have the opportunity to attend three general sessions and five full days of technical sessions. Novell will host many nightly events, which include the conference party with Huey Lewis and the News, Technology Night, and Meet the Experts, and the old Fun Dome has returned for 2003 as well. The HP Certified Professional Team also will be present at the Novell Brainshare event. Visit with the team in the HP booth. There's also an HP Certified Professional "night out" planned for Tuesday, April 15. Stop by the HPCP booth and pick up your invitation to the "night out." As a Platinum Sponsor, HP will have a 20 x 30 ft booth hosting 16 demos, an NDA Suite, and three technical sessions. You'll also see HP well represented as a BrainShare TV Sponsor and through various equipment sponsorships.
If you would like more information about HP's participation at BrainShare, please contact Tena.Crawford@hp.com. More information on BrainShare can be found at www.novell.com/brainshare.
We are pleased to announce our new OpenVMS Technical Journal, which is designed for and by OpenVMS Technical Experts. Articles in this journal will be focused on detailed technical information on OpenVMS and related technologies. We plan to publish two issues yearly, with our first issue to be published in early 2003. If you would like to submit an article for the premier issue, or subscribe to this electronic journal please visit http://www.openvms.compaq.com/openvms/journal/. If you have any questions regarding the OpenVMS Technical Journal, you may contact Susan Skonetski, Editor at 603-884-2807 or email at Susan.Skonetski@hp.com.
Encompass News See the article above about the new HP World 2003 Solutions and Technology Conference & Expo. Encompass is actively involved in helping to develop the technical content for this event. More detailed event information is scheduled to be announced in March. For the latest information visit the Encompass Web site at http://www.encompassus.org/ or call Encompass Headquarters at 877-354-9887. Interex News See the article above about the new HP World 2003 Solutions and Technology Conference & Expo. Interex is actively involved in helping to coordinate this event. If you'd like to attend this incredible conference, visit http://www.hpworld.com for details and registration. ITUG News Whether you are a current Certified Systems Engineer (CSE), Accredited Systems Engineer (ASE) or Accredited Integration Specialist (AIS) for NonStop Systems, or you are interested in furthering your technical knowledge and credentials to include this HP blue chip technology, you won't want to miss the ITUG Summit 2003, October 12-16, at the San Jose Convention Center. Celebrating its 25th anniversary, this year's International ITUG Summit will continue in the tradition of NonStop technology-specific education, featuring close to 200 technical sessions in areas pertaining to developing applications; enterprise solutions; enterprise management; platforms: servers, storage, operating systems, and data communication. Top-level HP executives, including, but not limited to, Pauline Nist, Vice President and General Manager of the HP NonStop Enterprise Division, will be on hand to speak directly to NonStop product direction. In addition, industry analysts and large, successful NonStop users will speak from their unique perspective and hands-on experience. Plus, as this is ITUG's Silver Anniversary, there are sure to be a few surprises and special guests on hand. Detailed information on programs and sessions of specific interest to HP Certified Professionals will be forthcoming. Watch future issues of this HPCP newsletter for updates, or visit www.itug.org for a review of ITUG Summit 2002 and planning thus far for ITUG Summit 2003.
Laura Chappell, Senior Protocol Analyst with the Protocol Analysis Institute (lchappell@packet-level.com) is a recognized expert in the health and security of networks. Laura knows it all in detail, from TCP/IP functionality to application testing to peer-to-peer file sharing threats to building test packets. She has graciously allowed us to reprint some of her technical articles for the benefit of the HP Certified Professional community. Each month, we'll feature another of her detailed topics. This month's article is on ICMP: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Read all about it at ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/hpcp/newsletter_march2003/icmp.doc For more information about Laura Chappell and Protocol Analysis Institute, please visit www.packet-level.com.
Keep Your Skills on Track with RAIL Do you need hands-on technical training but can't travel? Are you looking for a greater selection of local classes? Do you need to keep up with your real job while you attend training? Then please consider Remote Assisted Instructional Learning (RAIL) from HP.
To learn more about this remote training option, visit http://www.hp.com/education and click on the flashing box promoting the RAIL offerings for class dates, times, and additional information. For information or to register for these classes, call 1-800-HPCLASS or visit our website at http://www.hp.com/education Storage Training You already know the value that education and training bring to your productivity. Did you know that HP storage training combined with the HP Certified Professional Certification program helps to reduce your total cost of ownership, increases your job security, and offers the highest return on investment of all technical industry certification programs? HP Education Services has developed a portfolio of storage courses utilizing a blended approach of combining classroom and online delivery for maximum learning effectiveness and flexibility. The curriculum covers:
These courses contribute to SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association), AIS (Accredited Integration Specialist), ASE (Accredited Systems Engineer) and MASE (Master Accredited Systems Engineer) certification levels. For more information visit our website at: http://www.hp.com/education/sections/storage.html New OpenVMS training now available A new course is now available that provides you with a short but intensive training experience to help you attain OpenVMS certifications. Students likely to benefit from this course are those with previous OpenVMS training and experience and who need additional training in preparation for certification. This course does not have the same breadth of coverage as the OpenVMS system management curriculum, but instead emphasizes the parts of the curriculum that directly support the certification exams. The course balances:
See the course overview at http://www.hp.com/education/courses/u3585s.html. The class schedule and registration information is at http://www.hp.com/cgi-bin/education/schedule.cgi?cnum=u3585s. HP Education Services Introduces New ProLiant Training HP Education Services, the customer training arm of HP, offers a broad array of curricula to support ProLiant products and solutions. In addition to Microsoft and Linux operating system courses, HP Education Services offers training to support ProLiant certification, and has just introduced courses for ProLiant Essentials software and Oracle 9i Real Application Clusters on ProLiant platforms. The worldwide home page for ProLiant training is found at http://education.hp.com/curr-proliant.htm. Information on new ProLiant Essentials courses is available at: http://education.hp.com/hp-proliant-essentials.htm
According to a new salary survey from Brainbench, the downtrodden economy had a negative effect on IT workers' salary increases in 2002, as well as driving back the salary advances seen by women in 2001. The "2002 Brainbench IT Salary Survey" shows that more than two-thirds of the 6,000 respondents saw no salary increase or very slight increases in 2002, and expectations for salary increases in 2003 are down as well. The new salary survey is built on the responses of more than 6,000 IT professionals in the United States who were chosen from Brainbench's database of more than 4.5 million users. Respondents represent many industries and company sizes. The good news is that professional certifications are still a great asset for IT professionals. Those who earn certification are far more likely to see salary increases over and above the industry average of 1 percent to 3 percent. But salary increases felt the pinch of belt-tightening in the technology sector in 2002. Sixty-seven percent of respondents said they received increases of 3 percent of less in 2002, up from 52 percent in 2001. Women in particular lost ground on the salary front in the technology sector in 2002. The number of women earning salaries equal to those of men fell in almost every salary category above $40,000. Respondents don't see things improving much in 2003 either. Forty-two percent said they expect salary increases between 0 percent and 3 percent in 2003, and only 30 percent expect a 3 to 5 percent increase. This is down from 2001, when more than half expected increase in the 3 to 8 percent range. To get a free copy of the "Brainbench 2002 IT Salary Survey" report, go to http://www.brainbench.com/links/toitsalary2002.html.
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