The journey is the destination - Congrats Pawel

Mr Pawel Jerry Fiuto,a Polish National living in the UK had been with the ipsr family from July 22 - September 25,2014 and has successfully completed four modules of the RHCA track with us - RH442 : RedHat Enterprise System monitoring and performance Tuning , RH413:RedHat Server Hardening , CL210  :  Red Hat Open Stack Administration , RH318 : Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. He had previously passed EX436 - Red Hat Enterprise Clustering.

Pawel Jerry is a Bachelor's Degree holder in Computer Science and is currently working as System Administrator .His passion for travelling is evident from the fact that he scaled the glorious mountains of China a week before coming to India and his frost bitten skin was an example of how he was pushed to the extremes by the explorer within him. IPSR family admires his passion to travel all over the world and look forward to see him again, as this was his second time in India.

Chasing Up the Red Hat Cloud Certification #cloud

In line with the continuing identity change of Red Hat certification programs, Red Hat Inc. announces the introduction of new modules under Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat OpenStack platforms.

Chasing up with the new offerings of Red Hat, IPSR solutions has laid foundation to deliver the the newly launched Cloud training courses. The most recent addition to this line up is Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise Linux Administration, Neutron Networking with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and High Availability with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.

As in every Red Hat certifications, one must pass a hands-on practical examination that involves real-world tasks and scenarios, in order to achieve a Red Hat certification.

1. Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise Administration (CL280) -

This course is intended for Cloud administrators and/or System administrators who are implementing their own Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud computing environment using OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat. You will learn how to deploy, configure, and maintain OpenShift Enterprise broker and OpenShift Enterprise node hosts, and you will learn how to deploy and manage applications in the OpenShift Enterprise cloud environment. read more

The voice of Jay

While talking over a coffee with Jay, he was as enthusiastic as ever. Mr. Jay Brahmbhatt is a familiar face and pride of IPSR. He is with IPSR family since 2009 as part of the very first RHCSS batch and 10th RHCSS of IPSR. He is in the campus currently for his Red Hat Server Hardening training.

Jay has always been a busy bee, engaged in something or another whenever he is in. And I was curious to know how someone hailing from a medical background ended up being ‘tech savvy’ 

And there goes Jay: “During my 5th standard while visiting my uncle I always found him studying and I asked what is it about. There I came to know about MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional) and started preparing for it” The rest is history - He became world's youngest certified systems engineer at the age of 11 on January 2001. With the confidence bagged from the global achievement he started preparing for the CISCO certifications by May 2001.

"I was good at computers from my childhood and I developed confidence when I became Microsoft's youngest certified systems engineer. I was also the youngest candidate to become CISCO Certified Network Associate (CCNA) at 11," 

“And the association with IPSR?”

 Jay gives a wide grin. “After 5 – 6 years of schooling, I was actually doing nothing and thought of getting back into computers.” The presence of IPSR was unavoidable over the internet and that’s what which caught the eyes of Jay too. After RHCE, while searching for a good training partner for RHCSS, IPSR caught attention as the best training partner of Red Hat in India. “And that was a big decision to take. I had never been to kerala and knew nobody here. I had to admit, I never missed anything. The accommodation, training, the infrastructure for studying purpose and everything was provided by IPSR. It was really a home away from home”

While talking more on his time at IPSR, Jay was getting more zest. I did may courses after RHCSS and have even worked on live servers, but the best lab structure that I had over here is perfect, even from the live server point of view. The instructors were very nice. Even after completing the course, when we come up with any technical issues, I call him up and he provides with all the solutions. And that remains true even till today, after 6 years.”

After 6 years, Jay is happy to see the growth in infrastructure and glad to get trained by the top notch trainers. Jay concludes his conversion saying “It’s a very nice experience coming back over here”

And so is it for IPSR. We pride not only on our recognitions and years of existence rather mainly on our satisfied clients.

On the Road from RHCDS to RHCA – Welcome Moustafa

ipsr solutions ltd. today welcomes on board Mr. Moustafa Hammouda, Egyptian National working in Doha, Qatar.

Mr. Hammouda was with us last summer, during the months of March – April 2013. That trip, he successfully completed the requirements of being a Red Hat Certified Datacenter Specialist(RHCDS), and a Red Hat Certified Virtualization Administrator(RHCVA).

Employed as a Linux System Administrator with Ministry of Interiors – Qatar, he has over 5 years of industry experience in Linux administration, deployment, server management and a quite lot. He is a degree holder in Bachelors of Computers and Information Systems from the Mansour University and is currently half way through his Masters. Owing to Cisco Networking demands at work, Moustafa also completed CCNA and CCNP Routing and Switching earlier this year. read more

With Red Hat Training Say Wow Kerala

Where 7 billion people connect across 85 seas, from 192 countries and 180497 islands, within 8 planets in this Universe, we are defined as a small entity formed to serve a huge unity comprised of Linux professionals, Linux engineers and wannabe’s in plenty. ipsr solutions ltd. an authorized and certified Red Hat training partner – the best Red Hat training partner India and Overseas serves with integrity to meet several IT training requirements of individuals and corporates across the world. Having established a strong trainee presence in over 50 countries already, ipsr solutions decides to enhance and smoothen their foreign relations by enriching up the Educational Tourism operations. Read More

Its another training spree at IPSR!

The summer of IPSR is blistering with RHCA schedules & exam back to back with national and international clients. This time, we have returning client Mr. Sayed Mohamed Hashem Hamza  Al Alawi from Bahrin, Mr. Muslim Adel Davoud Abu-Taha native of Jordan and Mr. Turki Abullah Al Nassar  and Moteb Al Otaibi from the Kingdom of Suadi Arabia along with Sunil Kumar Rauto and Jyothi Raja Nanda, Veena K John, Jyothi Raja Nanda and Suneesh Kumar.

The knowledge centre was also having attractive figures on the training board. 25th Training Batch for Red Hat Enterprise Clustering & Storage Management (RH436) and Red Hat Enterprise System Monitoring & Performance Tuning (RH442) and 26th Training batch of Red Hat Enterprise Deployment (RH401) Also it was the first training on the new Satellite Version of Red Hat Deployment.

Whole the weeks round the campus were filled with jovial team and trainers. The session and even the breaks seemed to be brainstorming. The national and international clients were in perfect sync with the splendid stream of erudition.

Mr. Sayed aims to be an RHCA by this year. He is currently working as Servers Manager in BMI Bankand has over 20 years of experience in IT industry. After the training and examination, Mr. Sayed was certified as RHCDS, taking the total count of RHCDS from IPSR to 41.

 Mr. Sunil is working as System Admin at Hydrabad. Suneesh, the trainer from IPSR and Veena and Jyothi are job seekers.

Mr. Turki works as System Admin at KACST (King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology ) and Mr. Muslim is Infrastructure Manager at Open Sooq Ltd, Saudin Arabia  - both aspires to be RHCDS.

Also the breaks were stint to taste the scrumptious Indian food and piquant Kerala cuisines. This was a rousing experience not just to the clients but also to the trainers from other parts of the country. We had Mr. Neju Paul, Mr. Parthipan Ganapathy and Mr. Praveen Kumar Thakur as trainers directly from Red Hat to deliver the courses

The view and voices now at the Cochin campus truly lives up to its name, the International Campus!

IPSR wishes all of them achieve what they wish for!

Hola! Cloud, Storage and Server Hardening – The New Identity

It is an evident fact that one must pass a hands-on practical examination that involves real-world tasks and scenarios, in order to achieve a Red Hat certification. Hence, possession of a Red Hat certification by itself is considered to be a privilege, as it gives employers a way to identify and mould qualified candidates, and also technical professionals get to prove their skills and build a beautiful career graph.

The Red Hat certification streams take an identifiable change from 2014. The most iconic Red Hat certification, much valued and respected RHCE program is nearing 15 years of existence. Furthermore, keeping Red Hat Certified Virtualization (RHCVA) and Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) certifications still in place, Red Hat Certified Security Specialist(RHCSS) and Red Hat Certified Datacenter Specialist(RHCDS) programs are reaching extinction when 2013 end.

However, Red Hat underlines the fact that they have always been a leading contributor to the open source community with yet another rolling out of new training programs and certificate of expertise’. Newly launched certifications are made available from end of year 2013 carried over to a happy new year 2014....Read More

Living Linux – Frame By Frame

From the land of beaches, pearls and shells – Republic of Philippines, Gilbert Sagun – a Storage Support Engineer working in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, sailed all way to the Arabian queen to collect something precious – Knowledge and expertise. With over a 10 years of robust experience in IT, Gilbert reached the IPSR international center in September 2013 to undergo Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) training, and left certified leaving plenty of moments to cherish for himself and all of us. During the course, he was also part of our regional celebrations, some pleasure trips, a wedding that fell on place, and of course the house boat ride, which we gift for all our boot camp participants. IPSR Media managed to click some pictures and put it up frame by frame.

“New Chums – Saying ‘cheese’ with on-the-road masterpieces!“

Location : Remains of Kochi Muziris Biennale – Fort Cochin, Kerala.

Float in Bliss – The traditional house boats equipped with luxury and modern amenities lets you stay, 

dine and experience the beauty of nature along the river banks of Kerala. “

Location : Kumarakom, September 2013, Kottayam, Kerala.......and More

RHCA – “the capstone certificate” for Four

ipsr solutions ltd., – Authorized and Certified Red Hat Training Partner since 2003 – who first hosted a Red Hat examination in Kerala, – who bagged the national recognition for conducting maximum number of Red Hat examinations the very next year – who is the first to conduct RHCSS examination in South Asia – who produced the worlds youngest RHCVA and RHCSS - who have trainees from over 50 countries across the globe – who produced the maximum number of RHCE‘s, RHCVA‘s, RHCSS‘ RHCDS‘ RHCA‘s till date – and for all above, bagged 10 International Awards from Red Hat Inc. in the last 10 years – is here.

Today is not to be forgotten, as we produced 4 Red Hat Certified Architects (RHCA) in one go – a remarkable achievement since the launch of RHCA certification in 2005

This includes an IPSR trainer, who was also tagged Red Hat Certified Datacenter Specialist(RHCDS) last week. And from now, with “the capstone certificate” – Red Hat Certified Architect, he is Mr. Sanju Raj, RHCE, RHCSS, RHCDS, RHCA, Senior Consultant – Linux Technical Services, ipsr solutions ltd and three others namely Mr. Islam Gaber, Linux System Administrator in Egypt, Mr. Vijayabalan, Senior Infrastructure Architect – IBM Inc. and Mr. Alambprabhu Kamble, Senior Engineer – Juniper Networks..

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The Queen of Arabian Sea welcomes Linuxians

Kochi also known as Cochin – the Queen of Arabian Sea, withholds serene beauty of lakes and sea. IPSR International campus situates at the heart of the city of Cochin, Kerala, India – with all amenities to serve each Linuxian who visit us.

On this day, the 28th September 2013, when the world celebrates the “World Tourism Day” we wish to thank all those who had been with us for training requirements – from over 50 countries across the globe, Being a tourist is wonderful when you are at the right place. Cochin is here; we are here.

Ranked first in the total number of international and domestic arrivals in Kerala, Cochin is the sixth best tourist destination in India according to surveys done by Outlook Traveler magazine. Read more....

My Two Minutes with Mike, an RHCVA

It was two months back; I met with Mr. Michael Joel Parin, Australian national who works in Prague. After having been in close conversation with us since the beginning of 2013, he reached Kerala, India for training requirements. During his time with us, he underwent training and certification in Cisco Networking – CCNA, Red Hat Certified Virtualization – RHCVA and RH 436 – Clustering and Storage Management. More than a trainee who just get involved in the course and studies, Mike was more of a kind with an urge to observe and learn from everything and anything which came on his way of expedition – very keen about culture and history. He, who has traveled through many parts of India in the past, reached Kerala for the first time.

One day when I had set out of the IPSR international campus, Mike came by. We had a chit-chat for a few minutes and to my amusement, he made me realize the fact that how well a foreigner knew about India; the language and culture. As everyone, Mike was also skeptical to hear my name. Read more

Motorcycle Diaries of a Linux Enthusiast

Some while ago I decided the time had come to leave my job as a Linux sysadmin and become self employed, taking on fixed term contracts with a variety of companies in the UK. Although I’d been a Linux sysadmin for the last five years or so (Windows sysadmin before that) I have no formal certifications to prove my competence but being certified would help me gain contracts. Checking out certification routes, and attendant costs showed that it would be best value to do the certification in India, and I’d get to visit India at the same time, something I’d long wanted to do. My son had done ten weeks voluntary work in India earlier in the year and came home enthusing about the country...Read more

Snowbird Linux: fast, powerful and stable OS

Seeking to scale up a better substitute for window based desktops. Mr. Amit Caleechurn, System Engineer from Mauritius creates a new linux flavor “Snowbird Linux” which is claimed to be a remix based on fedora. Perhaps no other new flavor in the recent past is so sound with best free / non-free software packages. The snowbird linux is certain to create a substantial impact in global linux loving community by redefining the strength as a fast, powerful and stable operating system. The latest version can be downloaded from Sourceforge while the kickstart files are hosted on github

However SnowBird Linux 19 (New Dawn) in addition to the goodies released in Fedora 19 has incorporated some more significant features like:

Tweaked Gnome 3 Desktop | Clean theme with flat icons | LibreOffice 4.1 | Bundled audio and video codecs | Web, social and telephony applications | Productivity software | Graphics and development tools | Useful utilities and accessories | Live CD with optional installer  and many more.

Professing a big leap in the techno front, Snowbird Linux is certain to create new milestone in the open source world. IPSR is much proud of this revelation as Mr. Amit Caleechurun was the former student of IPSR international centre for RHCSS and RHCDS Boot camp batch. He is the fourth RHCDS from IPSR.

About the training and experience at IPSR Mr Amit Caleechurun had remarked

”The experience at IPSR is beyond words. I enjoyed a lot and seized exhaustive knowledge about Linux and its applications. Now I am waiting for the next modules to pursue with my training and certifications. I was really indulged with the infrastructure, Hi-Tech lab facilities, method of training and my accommodation. They really cared about my lodging and food. Regarding RHCE exam, the real value is it’s a real time exam procedure and you need a lot of practice and expertise to get through. I could make use of my time in lab and was able to get expertise with real time problems. The exam was really good and the full credit of my 100% score goes to the training-faculty.”

The other exalted experience I have had ever in my life is the houseboat trip!! Backwater cruise at Vembanad Lake; an intricate and enchantingly beautiful web with its majestic canals, streams and distributaries with exhilarating boating, fishing and sightseeing experiences was really rejuvenating for me. Then I have to mention about the specialized body massage performed by therapist using specific herbal oil and steam bath. It makes me feel the holistic healing experience which I have never experienced before.”

An RHCSA in Stellar Style

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

From the sovereign island country in South East Asia – Philippines, the IPSR Global Campus experienced the presence of Mr. Jonathan Viray, Technical Consultant at EuroTech ME, Dubai. IPSR over the last 10 years as a Red Hat Certified Training Partner, has trained professionals from 50+ countries across the globe. Jonathan being the first individual from Philippines nation, adds to the count. Been with us for a couple of weeks, … Read more ...

Eminence with Egyptian éclat

Mr. Mohammed Al-Maraghy Nassar and Mr. Mohamed Belal Samy Mostafa El-Sayed -  the 23rd and 24th RHCDS of IPSR.- Best buddies from school days - Mr. Maraghy and Mr. Belal are currently working as System Administrators in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. They  reached India by the middle of May 2013 with the aim of mastering higher modules of Red Hat Courses. Mr. Maraghy endorses Fedora around the middle east. … Read more →

The explorer of good times in the expedited service of Kerala

Mr.Michael Joel Parin or Mike Parin, the great explorer of good times rejoice every moment of his expedition by learning each aspect of the places he visit. This time Mr. Mike has arrived in Kerala, India to get trained in RHCDS and CCNA. He came to know about IPSR, through his colleague and found the place to be the best in training. According to him, the best aspect of being in Kerala is the warm welcome and receptiveness granted by the people of Kerala...Read More...

Synergising the Cross- cultural Training Program at its best

The vital force behind visitors coming to India is the benign service granted at its best. Like a vibgyor which looks divine when all the colours are merged, the group learning among people from different parts of the world is at sanctity when it’s blended with all the features of perfectionism that is; trainers, facilities and of course the cooperation of the trainees. This is for the first time since its journey in providing International Certifications Training; IPSR witnesses the arrival of a pool of trainees at a time.....Read More....

Art of Training is the expertise synthesized with Passion

Training is like an art to be enjoyed by the observer and the doer. Like an art without passion fails; learning fails when training is not satisfactory. According to Mr.Walid Shaari, Libyan British who was at IPSR Solutions to undergo training in SE Linux Policy Administration - IPSR follows a systematic and time-bounded training technique implemented effectively by the skilled trainers at IPSR. The inestimable possession of IPSR is the truly efficient Red Hat Certified trainers, which is a fact without question.

When Mr.Walid was sharing his thoughts with us, he seemed to be very precisely speaking about the course and the training as such. The credibility of any service is authentic only when it’s heard from the mouths of the

enchanted clients. “Mr.Sanju, my instructor from IPSR taught the course very well. His teaching technique is good. He basically doesn’t go over the slide straight away. He gives a small brief before the class starts like what are the core skills, the core tools and the core functionalities that need to be studied in one chapter and what are the objectives. He goes over the theory, he goes over the concepts and then he goes over the slides and sees if everybody is understanding what he’s saying and then we do the labs. We don’t move to the next chapter unless we finish the labs from the previous chapter. The time is relaxed and the environment is informal. There is lot of flexibilities, there is room for questions and everything I think is perfect. Specifically when you are coming for training and exams this place is the best. The trainer was able to deliver Red Hat objectives. He had his own style of delivering it and the workshops are also good”.

Mr.Walid was bewitched by the training procedure adopted by IPSR and this adds a feather to cap of IPSR’s success stories.                                     

Of course he is captivated by the welcoming behaviour of Keralites, India. He tags people of IPSR  as “Service Oriented” which is quite enough to depict how comfortable he felt while his visit to Kerala and especially IPSR.

UNION OF MINDS - in the blissful land of Uniting Cultures!

 When people from different countries meet, it’s not just the union of cultures but it’s something which reveals that the human beings belong to the same species distinguished by languages. Here Mr. Ijere Ude Ijere and Mr. Emeka from Nigeria and Mr. Mostafa Hamoda from Egypt met at one of the World’s Best Red Hat Training Partners, IPSR in India, the land of uniting cultures. There they began their journey to the new world of knowledge, together without failure. Read More...

Bucked the trend in redhat certifications

If working together is success, don’t expect anything less for ipsr tailors all learning activities in par with the levels of the scholars that no obstacles remain formidable. Hence it comes as no surprise that ipsr was once again applauded for excellence in defining top success in Redhat certifications. It is noteworthy that when the global success rate in redhat certification is so skimpy ipsr has become a pocket that has bucked the trend in registering success.

In this context what become more significant are the observations of our scholars. Here are the remarks of our students from RHCVA crash batch.

Mr. Rakesh Singh is basically from New Delhi. He started his career at Aptech, Chennai. He is now the Operation Co-ordinator at Meridian Technologies Ltd, Nigeria.

 “I am very much pleased with IPSR for the wonderful training. The infrastructure is also very good. Mr. Mojan was superb, and also an expert in helping with lab practice. I am very happy for becoming an RHCVA, And I also wish to do my next schedules from IPSR itself and I shall also recommend my friends to opt IPSR…….’

Mr. A Victor Sam Tony is from Madurai. He is also an RHCE trainer & System Admin at Klimways Informatics, Chennai.

“I mainly decided to join IPSR because I got immediate response for my enquiry. I also heard that IPSR was the best in Linux and I am happy that what I have heard was right. I also thank each and everyone for helping and co-ordinating me. I am very happy to become RHCVA. I am also planning to take RHCDS also from IPSR…”