Now you can learn to be green. IBM has developed a degree programme focused on green data centres to give computer science students the know-how to work in energy-efficient computer environments.

Big Blue has collaborated with Metropolitan Community College (MCC) in Nebraska, to create the curriculum for the institution's Data Center Management course track. IBM will provide hardware, software and online course materials to assist MCC in offering this degree programme. The course is expected to take two years.

A data centre on campus will serve as the classroom in which students can learn virtualisation and server consolidation, energy efficiency, business resiliency, and security and compliance skills as part of the degree program. The environment runs on IBM Power Systems servers running AIX, i and Linux technologies, according to IBM.

Source: Techworld

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