LPI and the New Era of Open Source

MOSC 2013
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Azani Arshad, LPI Master Affiliate for ASEAN

Grow your opportunity in Linux and Open Source

Mission

To provide a global framework, industry leadership and services to enhance, develop and further lifelong professional careers in Linux and Open Source technologies.

We help you locate and expand your opportunities in Linux and Open Source

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Vision

To become recognized as the #1 organization that provides global leadership, direction and skill standards for those who pursue a career in Linux and Open Source technology.

Provide THE # 1 organization that assists with knowledge and programs to grow your career in Linux and Open Source

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LPI By the Numbers...

350,000
Total Exams Given

125,000
LPI Certified Professionals

350+
Global Training Partners

25 +
Master Affiliate Country Offices

7 Languages
Exam Languages

12

60 +
Global Annual Events

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Exam Product Showcase

Linux Essentials LPIC 1 LPIC 2 LPIC 3 LPIC 3 Electives

LPI LE

LPI 101 LPI 102

LPI 201 LPI 202

LPI 301

LPI 302 LPI 303 LPI 304

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Entry Level Certificate Program 0-12 Months Installed/Desktop

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Junior Level Professional Certification 1-2 Years Servers/Small Site

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Advanced Level Professional Certification 2-3 Years Small/Medium Site

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Senior Level Professional Certification 3+ Years Enterprise-Wide

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Specialty Areas Professional Certification 3+ Years Enterprise-Wide

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We are here to assist you...

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The New Industry Buzz and OSS

Big Data and The Cloud

LPIs programs will ensure OSS knowledge is distributed

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The Way Forward for Companies

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IAAS
PAAS
SAAS

Technology commoditization is providing new capabilities

Harness Analyze Act

Vast amounts of data are being generated

Analyzing this data is key to future growth

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Opportunity in the Clouds

A new report* has found that more than 1.5 million cloud computing jobs went unfilled last year because companies could not find qualified workers with computer networking training and over relevant IT skills... The skills gap underscores the need for companies to find qualified IT staff with more than 50 percent saying that cloud computing is one of their businesses top priorities.

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*IDC Report-Climate Change: Clouds Impact on IT Organizations and Staffing

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Demand for Linux Professionals

Cloud and big data are driving the demand for system administrators

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*Linux Foundation 2012 trend report

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2013 Salary Survey

"Out of the big three, mobile, cloud and data, theres one that is having a disproportionate impact on salaries its big data. Salaries reported by those who regularly use Hadoop, NoSQL, and Mongo DB are all north of $100,000. By comparison, average salaries for technologies closely associated with cloud and virtualization are just under $90,000 and mobile salaries are closer to $80,000."* "Rather than a 5 percent increase in average salaries over the past year, those among professionals who regularly use Linux leaped a full 9 percent to $90,853."*

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*http://ostatic.com/blog/open-source-skills-continue-to-have-clout-in-the-job-market#buzz

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Top Names in the Cloud

LPI partnerships with 50% already

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Big Data = Big Opportunity for OSS

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Twitter

Twitter is built on open source software, from the back-end to the front-end. Twitter engineers use, contribute to and release a lot of open source software.*

*dev.twitter.com/opensource

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More Twitter Stats...

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Facebook
Currently...more than 1.1 Billion

Facebook has been developed from the ground up using open source software.*

*developers.facebook.com/opensource/

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IAAS-Infrastructure as a Service

AWS uses OSS libraries under the Apache 2 License

*forums.aws.amazon.com/

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What Do All These Companies Have in Common?

Linux

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Linux and OSS Jobs are Available NOW...

Linux jobs have become some of the hottest jobs in all of tech, said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation. Clearly, hiring managers throughout the IT tech sector understand this and are aggressively seeking Linux professionals. - Jim Zemlin, 2012 LPI value to training centers and alumni

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How Do You Find the Opportunity?

Register @
www.lpi.org

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Certification + Experience = Job

Guidance To dos: Engage with an OSS project To dos: Work as an apprentice or intern with ParticipateEngage in a LUG an OSS project Work as an apprentice or intern Volunteer at school Participate in a LUG Volunteer at school

Are you easy to nd?

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Our Vision of a Linux Professional

Subscribe to a code of ethics: Professionalism Personal Integrity Respect of Privacy A responsibility to: Employers Users Community Know your tools Maintain and improve your skills

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Baseline Certificate Program for All

Overview
The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) is proud to announce an innovative "first-of-its-kind" program for the academic sector, youth and others new to the world of Linux and Open Source technology.

Objective Areas

The Linux community and a career in open sourceFinding your way on a Linux systemThe power of the command lineThe Linux operating systemSecurity and file permissions

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LPI-ASEAN
Contact:

Azani Arshad Suite 1-4, Wisma Yan, 17-19, Jalan Selangor, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia Web: http://www.lpi-apac.org Email: aarshad@lpi.org Phone: +60-3-79583013 Mobile:+60-12-2283556

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