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May 24, 2015

FREE Pivotal Training Courses


Introduction to Pivotal CF
  • Overview: This course provides students with the concepts and hands-on experience needed to work with and deploy applications on Cloud Foundry. Students will gain familiarity in CF concepts (applications, buildpacks, manifests, organizations, spaces, users, roles, domains, routes, services), how to push applications to CF (various languages), services, user provided services, manifests, YAML, environment variables, autoconfiguration, logging and loggregator.
  • Prerequisites: 
    • Basic IT/computer science knowledge 
    • High-level familiarity with web application architecture, from either a developer or administrator’s perspective.
  • Intended Audience: 
    • Developers
    • Administrators
Introduction to Pivotal HD 
  • Overview: This course is designed to provide an introduction to students new to Pivotal HD. As a one day course, students will gain a high level overview of features found in the Pivotal HD Hadoop distribution. This introduction will serve as a foundation for further courses that are offered for administrator and architects using Pivotal HD. 
  • Prerequisites: 
    • None 
  • Intended Audience: 
    • Anyone who is new to Pivotal HD
Introduction to Pivotal HAWQ
  • Overview: This course is designed to provide an introduction to students new to Pivotal HD and HAWQ. In this one day course, students will gain a high level overview of features found in HAWQ. This introduction will serve as a foundation for further courses that are offered for administrators, architects and end users of HAWQ.
  • Course Objectives:
    • Understand the Pivotal HD architecture and components
    • Understand the HAWQ architecture and components
    • Understand HAWQ storage and I/O with HDFS
    • Introduce HA options in Pivotal HD and HAWQ
    • Identify HAWQ distributions, partitioning and storage options
    • Learn loading options in Pivotal HD
    • Learn loading and unloading options in HAWQ
    • Introduce Pivotal eXtensions Framework (PXF) External table uses
    • Present HAWQ, HBase and Hive comparative usage
  • Prerequisites: 
    • None
  • Intended Audience: 
    • Anyone new to Pivotal HD and HAWQ
Introduction to GemFire
  • Overview: This course is designed to provide an introduction to students new to GemFire. As a 1 day course, students will gain a high level overview of features found in GemFire. This introduction will serve as a foundation for further courses that are offered for administrator, developers and architects using GemFire. Some basic high level lab exercises are also offered to enhance the learning experience.
  • Prerequisites: 
    • None
  • Intended Audience: 
    • Anyone who is new to GemFire
Pivotal Greenplum Database
  • Overview: This course is designed to provide an introduction to students new to GPDB. As a one day course, students will gain a high level overview of features found in GPDB. This introduction will serve as a foundation for further courses that are offered for administrators, DBAs and end users of GPDB.
  • Intended Audience: 
    • Anyone who is new to Greenplum Database (GPDB)
Introduction to Redis
  • Overview: This hands-on course provides a broad overview of the Redis NOSQL datastore, starting with an explanation of product functionality and typical use cases. Students will learn how to install and configure Redis, and examine some of the common commands for manipulating data. They will have the opportunity to create a simple Redis Java application, and review tips and techniques for improving performance. The course explains the use of persistence and replication in Redis, and also includes coverage of some administrative topics such as security and monitoring.
  • Prerequisites: 
    • Basic Java programming using an IDE.
  • Intended Audience: 
    • Architects and developers wanting to learn what Redis can do for their applications, as well as when and how to use it.