Welcoming Anand Kurian from Canada

It is not very unusual for us to see students coming to join multiple courses at IPSR. They trust us and we work hard to deliver.

Mr. Anand Kurian is a Warranty Administrator with Nissan USA, working in Canada. He has been with Nissan USA for the past 7 years. Anand is a B E (CS) from Banglore University and later pursued M S from Macmaster University, Canada.

He is a native of Mannar, Kerala and is on a vacation. He has decided to utilize the expertise and facilities of IPSR and has enrolled in our Kottayam center. He shall be undertaking CCNA Routing & Switching, CCNA Security, MCSE, RHCSA and RHCE courses.

A warm welcome to Mr. Anand Kurian.

600th RHCE Batch commencing

It was in February 2010 that the 500^th RHCE batch at IPSR was inaugurated at our Edappally centre, by Mr. B R Anand, Manager Sales - Red Hat - South India & Srilanka. Just over an year has passed and we have reached the next big milestone.

The 600^th RHCE batch at IPSR shall be commencing at our head quarters in Kottayam, on 9^th May, 2011. While this is a big occasion, we are saving the celebrations for something bigger.

While travelling from the 500^th batch to the 600^th batch,we have seen rather big changes. RHEL 6 has been released and a new starter certification named RHCSA has been introduced. This has not made any amends to our life and our course schedules are as busy as ever.

We thank everyone who have helped us to reach this far. We thank the students for their patronage; Red Hat for their support; faculty for their relentless efforts and well-wishers for their prayers and blessings. We pledge to keep up and exceed the expectations.

Red Hat & Cisco Certifications top IDC Analysis

In the 'Worldwide IT Education and Training 2011 Vendor Analysis' conducted by IDC, Red Hat & Cisco Certifications have been ranked in the 'leader category'. International Data Corporation (IDC) is a top rated global provider of market intelligence and advisory services across various verticals.

IDC’s study had assessed 11 vendors in the IT training market, offering various certifications. The study and evaluations were based on various parameters that were expected to make the candidates successful in a given market during the short and long term. Red Hat, Cisco, Lawson and HP were placed in the "Leader" category.

IPSR is elated on this occasion, since we are the only training organization in India, which offers apex certifications in two of the highly ranked certification streams - Red Hat and Cisco. Any aspiring student who come to us shall have the opportunity to pursue their training uptil they reach RHCA and CCIE.

We take this opportunity to congratulate Red Hat and Cisco, for maintaining high standards in their certifications and never compromising on quality.
  

3rd CCIE from IPSR

Abdul khadar T M, CCIE

We are extremely happy to announce that IPSR, Calicut branch has produced the 3^rd CCIE from IPSR. IPSR is the only organisation in India, which offers CCIE and RHCA, which are the aprex certifications from CISCO and Red Hat respectively, under a single roof.

Our latest CCIE is Mr. Abdul khadar T M, who is a native of Ettumanoor near Kottayam, Kerala. He is a Diploma holder in Computer Hardware Maintainance and is presently working as Color Bank Engineer in Berger Paints India Ltd.

We congratulate Mr. Abdul Khadar and all members of RouterDome (the CISCO division at IPSR, Calicut) on this achievement and wish all success to him.

 

Results: EX423 on 27th April 2011

Antony Pradeep

Paving road to more RHCSS certifications, another EX423 (Directory Services and Authentication) Exam was conducted at IPSR Edappally branch.

Four of our students came out with flying colours, with Mr. Antony Pradeep scoring a 100% score. Antony is a native of Chennai, presently working as Linux Engineer at Vahni Solutions, Bangalore.

Arun Mohan

Bharat Vishwakarma, a BCA graduate from Madhyapradesh, Kurian Mathew Thayil and Arun Mohan also cleared EX423, placing them closer to their RHCSS certifications. Mr. Kurian and Mr. Arun are both from Kerala and are also previous students of IPSR.

We wish them all, the very best in their careers.
 

Linux Project at IPSR Selected as Best Academic Project

IPSR, through its OSBRC (Open Source Based Research Centre) offers free Linux based projects for students, along with their RHCE. Since its inception in December 2010, OSBRC has helped many students take up unique projects for their academic requirements.


Mr. Libin Balan, Mr. Anup Shaji , Mr. Jeeno Mathew Jacob and Mr.Thomas Chacko, who are BE students at Sri Nandhanam College Of Engineering And Technology, Tirupattur, Tamil Nadu had chosen IPSR for their academic project, because of our strength in Linux and Open Source. Their project topic was ‘Efficient Data Restoration for a Disk Based Network Backup System’. During the in-campus assessments, this project was rated as the Best Academic Project.

IPSR also offers all kinds of academic project assistance to MCA & B Tech students and during the previous year also, projects of our students were chosen as best projects in various campuses.

We congratulate Libin, Anup, Jeeno & Thomas on this achievement, along with all team members at OSBRC.

Update:  Also, the academic project titled "Web Hosting Server", done by Mr. Shamnad Shaikh Meeran,  Mr.Varun V, Mr. Varghese Antony and Mr. Roun Antony was adjudged as 'One of the Best Academic Projects' at Sri Nandhanam College Of Engineering And Technology, Tirupattur.
 

Another Testimonial from a Professional

We have helped thousands of students with their certifications and even now, we get thrilled when we get a good testimonial.

It was so, when Mr. Bennis Abraham spoke to us. Bennis was a student during March 2011 and certified RHCE. He is a Unix system Specialist with the Macy's Group (Macy's Systems Technology) in USA.
 

Thank God for IPSR.

I joined IPSR and did a crash course for three days and on the fifth day I passed my RHCE examination. I could say training, troubleshooting and the mock examination at IPSR would be best in the world. I recommend IPSR to everyone who is planning to pursue a career in computers.

I am thankful to God, IPSR Team and my family for helping me to get a RHCE certification.

 
Thank you Bennis, for your inspiring words.
 

IPSR Welcomes Hasan A Alswady from Saudi Arabia

This is his first visit to Kerala or even India. But Mr. Hasan A Alswady wants to stay long.

Mr. Hasan A Alswady with Dr. Mendus Jacob

Hasan has come all the way from Saudi Arabia, to the International Centre at IPSR, Edappally. He shall be initially pursuing RHCSA, which is a prerequisite for RHCE, under RHEL 6 and shall proceed on to RHCE.

Hasan A Alswady is a system administrator, working remotely for a foreign data center. He likes Kerala, has been extremely impressed with IPSR and wants to stay long to complete "all the certifications available at IPSR".

Hasan, we welcome you on board and hope to have a long association with you.
 

40th RHCSS & 5th RHCDS from IPSR

We knew this is coming, but that does not lessen the delight. It happened on 30^th March, 2011, two days before Team India lifted the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011.

IPSR Edappally hosted another EX423 (Directory Services and Authentication) Exam and 3 of our students passed, with Mr. Mohsin Hakkim A.A securing a 100% result. Mr. Mohsin is the System Admin Manager at Keltron, Cochin and was a student in our 25^th RHS 429 Batch & 28^th RHS 333 batch.

40^th RHCSS

Rithesh Kumar, RHCSS

With this very exam, IPSR also produced the much awaited 40^th RHCSS, in the form of Mr. Ritesh Kumar from New Delhi. He is the Asst. Director (Systems) at Petroleum Federation of India, New Delhi. He had initially joined IPSR, Trivandrum, for his RHCVA certification and completed the same successfully. Satisfied with the success, he joined the RHCSS batch at IPSR, Kochi North and completed the RHS333 (Enterprise Network Services Security), RHS429 (SELinux Policy Administration) and RH423  (Enterprise Directory Services and Authentication) modules.

5^th RHCDS

A. V Radhakrishnan, RHCDS

Another milestone that we passed with this EX423 exam was the 5^th RHCDS from IPSR. It was a while, since we had our 4th RHCDS and Mr. A. V Radhakrishnan from Palakkad had made us proud. He is an Ex. Service Man, with 20 years of experience with Indian Air Force. He was the Senior In Charge of Net & IT, while he was releaved from duties. He completed the EX401 (Deployment, Virtualization, and Systems Management), EX436 (Clustering and Storage Management) and now the EX423 (Directory Services and Authentication) exams to be our 5th Red Hat Certified Datacenter Specialist.

We wish the very best for Mr. Mohsin, Mr. Ritesh Kumar and Mr. Radhakrishnan, in their careers.

And Team India... You made the whole nation proud. Congratulations and Thank You...!!!
 

Placement Orientation at IPSR

At IPSR, we always treat our certification training courses as professional courses and give utmost priority for the placement orientation.

At our Kochi South branch, every Saturday has been dedicated to preparing students for their job hunt. This includes machine based tests, written tests, mock interviews etc, which shall help the students in performing well in the recruitment process of companies.

With the help of our Career Centre, we conduct various recruitment drives and job fairs, some of them exclusively reserved for our students. We also arrange special orientation programmes for our students, before some of the exclusive placement drives.

We take pride at getting our students placed, and offer them support till they get placed. We also maintain different active communities to give lifelong support to our students. The Linux Group provides professional support to Linux enthusiasts and system admins. The IT Freshers Group, IT Experienced Group and Management Jobs Group caters various groups as their names suggest. Our latest career support venture is a job portal, which aims at easy resume management and job search for job seekers, while providing a large and focused talent pool for employers, to pick from.