Hi Rick
When I say that the EMC Networker course does not have much of a reputation,
I base that on the following:
-I my self had a non-EMC training course at a European company which stated
it was using EMC materials. That material consisted of slides with limited
text and the trainer apparantly had some deal with EMC to be able to teach
this course (he told) . The trainer was a nice guy, and new the stuff, but
did not at all manage to make the material attractive at all. And to many of
the lab's did not work at all e.g. restore a legato server from scratch by
using boostrap information.
-I've been on some EMC courses regarding SAN. Those have been terrible, but
the study materials was much better than the materials I got at the
Networker course. Still the same, ever to often the labs don't work.
-I have 3 collegues who all have gone to a Networker course in England. They
all have the feeling they didn't learn anything useful and they all feel
unconfortable working with Networker today. Henche, I'm trying to take over
and do the stuff.
-I've heard from friends abroad the same rumour.
Now I'm in the position having big responsibilities regarding backup, but
not having all to much know how. Fortunatelly I found this discussion list
and from here I've got the best explanations on many things important.
It's very incouraging for me to hear about something positive that I could
possibly use for our benefit. So if there are recomendations for some
trainingcenter, some teacher, other resources on the internet, it would be
so very helpful for us here.
2008/12/22 Rick Brode <rick AT brodetraining DOT com>
> Joe,
>
> I'm kinda curious where you got your information that EMC's NetWorker
> training is so poor?? Having worked for EMC Education from 2003-2006, I saw
> the student evaluations for all classes taught by EMC each week. On a 5
> point scale, the overall score for NetWorker classes taught in North America
> and the U.K. were consistently in the 4.7 - 4.9 range. In other words,
> 94-98% of the students felt that the class was excellent overall.
>
> To the best of my knowledge right now, EMC has one NetWorker trainer in
> Canada, three in the U.S (one is a contractor/former EMC employee) and one
> in the U.K (contractor/former EMC employee). All of them have at least 10
> years of NetWorker experience and are excellent trainers. I believe they
> all also had some sys admin experience prior to getting into training.
>
> Having said that, there are other sources of NetWorker training in the U.S
> and U.K besides EMC and Cambridge Computers. You can find a list of
> companies in the FAQ of the Backup Central web-site.
>
>
> http://www.backupcentral.com/components/com_mambowiki/index.php/What_training_is_available_for_Legato%3F
>
> Rick
>
> JW wrote:
>
>> ...
>>
>> Is there a Networker training available you can recommend? The EMC admin
>> course, to my knowledge, does not have a very good reputation.
>>
>> ...
>>
>
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