Oct 21st

Why DevOps

DevOps is a combination of people, process, tools, vendors, and partners.

DevOps is AGILITY, RELIABILITY, SCALABILITY, SUSTAINABILITY, and REPRODUCIBILITY.

It focuses on the following:

Knowledge sharing
Automation
Collaborative culture
Time to market & value

DevOps is also an organizational culture for application development and maintenance success. It encompasses technology and process. It encourages transparency and candid communication between software developers and IT operations and administration to increase the agility with which applications are delivered.

By automating, monitoring, and measuring the production of code through develop, release, test, and maintenance, the process becomes more sustainable, scalable, and repeatable.

Optimally, all manual tasks are eliminated reducing the potential for human error and making delivery and roll-back less error prone.

Why DevOps

Rapidly deliver reliable, scalable micro and macro services that are critical for the business time to market and value.

Brings teams together

Technical benefits include:

Continuous delivery
Reduction in component complexity
Agility in problem resolution

Business benefits include:

Agility in the delivery of business benefit
Increased stability
More focus on competitive advantage, rather than “keeping the lights on”.

Want to learn more about DevOps?

Join us for the upcoming complimentary webinar on DevOps Continuous Testing Foundation (CTF) Certification Overview.

Questions about DevOps? Get in touch!

Oct 20th

Cybersecurity Best Practices – Passwords

Managing passwords is the easiest, most impactful thing you can do when it comes to IT security. (And it’s free!)

RESET EVERY 3 MONTHS

Windows login
Email/Office 365
Routers and firewalls
Other hardware
Customer relationship management (CRM)
Marketing automation

PASSWORD MUST-HAVES

Uppercase and lowercase letters
Numbers
Symbols – i.e . !@#$%^&*()

Characteristics of a Strong Password

Long: The longer the password, the harder to crack. While your account may only require 6 to 9 characters, expanding to 12, 16 or more will give you a stronger password.
Passwords to avoid: Superman, Batman, Sunshine, Princess

Not in the dictionary: Avoid single words or common phrases that can be found in the dictionary or vernacular.
Passwords to avoid: 123456789, 111111, Abc123

Character substitutions: Substituting characters for letters is a good practice but think outside of the box. Don’t substitute zero for the letter O and assume you are safe. A better option would be using the ampersand (&) for O.
Passwords to avoid: Football, Baseball, [names of sports teams]

Illogical phrases: While you wouldn’t want to use a common phrase like “ThankYouVeryMuch,” you could string together completely random words like “ThankCheeseBoatsNetwork.”
Passwords to avoid: [personal information], [social media profile content], Iloveyou, welcome

Acronyms and abbreviations: Instead of spelling out words, abbreviate them or replace phrases with acronyms that you can remember. “ThankYouVeryMuch” could become “TkYVreM.” Then add more to it so it’s longer and has a variety of characters.
Passwords to avoid: Qwerty, Password, Password21, Admin

Next Steps for You

Interested in sharpening your Cybersecurity skills, either for upskilling or with the idea of starting a new career? Babbage Simmel’s Comprehensive NIST Cybersecurity Framework (NCSF) Training & CompTIA CySA+ Cybersecurity Analyst Certification Cybersecurity training options will equip you with the skills needed to become an expert in the security field. You will learn comprehensive approaches to protecting your infrastructure, including securing data and information, running risk analysis and mitigation, architecting cloud-based security, achieving compliance and much much more.

Questions about Cybersecurity? Get in touch!

Oct 19th

ITIL 4 Foundation

ITIL enables you to fully benefit from proven best practices in IT and is relevant to anyone involved in the delivery or support of IT services. ITIL 4 reflects the complexities of modern business technology, new ways of working, and emerging practices, and provides a guide to managing IT in the new service economy, while retaining many of the core elements that makes ITIL so valuable to individuals and organizations today.

Start your ITIL 4 journey with ITIL 4 Foundation training. The ITIL 4 Foundation course introduces students to the key components of the ITIL 4 framework. They are the Service Value System and the Four Dimensions model. While v3 focused on the 26 processes and functions included in the service lifecycle, ITIL 4 provides a holistic end-to-end picture of what it really menas to contribute to business value, and also integrates concepts from models such as Lean IT, Agile, and DevOps.

Learn more about ITIL 4 Foundation training HERE.

As a reminder, attend all classes from home with our
Virtual Classroom Live.

ITIL 4 Certification Courses

All candidates must start with the ITIL® Foundation. Candidates can then work towards becoming either an ITIL® Managing Professional (ITIL® MP) or an ITIL® Strategic Leader (ITIL® SL) by completing the relevant modules. If a candidate completes all 5 modules, gaining both designations from the two streams, they will be eligible for assessment to become an ITIL® Master.

ITIL 4 Managing Professional

ITIL® 4 Strategic Leader

ITIL® 4 Strategist: Direct Plan and Improve*
ITIL® 4 Leader: Digital and IT Strategy (coming soon)

Learn ITIL 4 with us. Call (614) 481-4345 or e-mail info@babsim.com with any questions.

*Universal module for both ITIL® designation streams.

Aug 3rd

Getting to know Windows Server 2019

Why Windows Server 2019

The cloud is a growing source of innovation, but on-premises datacenters aren’t going away. The challenge is to blend the strengths of each in a way that meets your organization’s needs, using a hybrid strategy. Hybrid cloud enables a future-proof, long-term approach that will play a central role in IT strategies for the foreseeable future.

Benefit from cloud computing on your terms

The latest version of Windows Server has been specifically designed to bridge on-premises and the cloud, to help you benefit from cloud computing on your terms. Organizations are using Windows Server to extend their datacenters to the public cloud. They synchronize file servers, securely connect to cloud services, and perform backups on Azure. And now you can use Windows Admin Center to simplify everyday server management tasks for Windows Server running anywhere—on physical servers, virtual machines, on-premises, and in Azure, Microsoft’s cloud offering.

What’s new and improved in Windows Server 2019

Hybrid Cloud
Extend your on-premises Windows Server environments to Azure and easily integrate high value services.
Security
Ability to guard against ransomware attacks and help stop malicious virtual machine tampering.
Application development
New support for Kubernetes and new capabilities to deploy and scale out containers across a hybrid environment.
Hyperconverged infrastructure
Improvements to Microsoft’s hyperconverged platform now power prebuilt solutions that simplify deployment.

Windows Server 2019 Administration Training

This five-day instructor-led course is designed primarily for IT professionals who have some experience with Windows Server. It is designed for professionals who will be responsible for managing identity, networking, storage and compute by using Windows Server 2019, and who need to understand the scenarios, requirements, and options that are available and applicable to Windows Server 2019. The course teaches IT professionals the fundamental administration skills required to deploy and support Windows Server 2019 in most organizations.

Click HERE to learn more about Windows Server 2019 Administration training.
Join us in our Virtual Classroom Live 8/17-8/21.

Jun 4th

What’s new with Microsoft Certifications for cloud-based roles?

Get the latest on the impact and value of certification, including new Microsoft role-based certifications in this complimentary virtual learning event on Thursday, June 11, 2020 at 2pm EDT.

About the Event:

Join Babbage Simmel and Microsoft for this virtual event where you will get the latest on the impact and value of certification, including new Microsoft role-based certifications. Research demonstrates how certifications have enhanced individual career opportunities and improved the impact of corporate technology teams. Learn more about cloud-specific opportunities and challenges —and how Microsoft Certifications now better address both the challenges and ever-increasing opportunities.

Speaker:

Julie-Anne Arsenault,
Marketing Director, Microsoft Worldwide Learning

Bio:

Julie-Anne leads the marketing team in Worldwide Learning and is responsible for skilling customers and partners, and ensuring they are successful in their technical roles. Julie-Anne and her team achieve this by partnering with teams across Microsoft to offer connected learning experiences surfaced in contextual and relevant ways as customers engage with Microsoft and partners.

In her 12 years at Microsoft, she has had the opportunity to drive audience marketing strategy and win the hearts and minds of technical audiences through audience campaigns, relationship marketing, events, and content syndication. Prior to Microsoft, Julie-Anne also worked in business development for IBM and Johnson & Johnson.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to learn with us. E-mail info@babsim.com or call (614) 481-4345 to with your questions or to learn more.