Cloud computing course unveiled to help fill jobs in booming IT sector

The ISA Software Skillnet and VMware unveiled a Cloud Careers programme to retrain unemployed people for jobs in the IT sector at a ceremony yesterday at VMWare’s premises in Ballincollig, Co Cork.

Ireland created 4,000 IT jobs during 2011. This sector employs more than 84,000 people in Ireland.

This Skillnet initiative is one of several joint ventures upskilling people for a sector that currently has some 2,000 vacancies nationwide. Cloud computing in particular could prove an invaluable catalyst for Irish economic recovery.