This document discusses how getting Linux certification, such as Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), can help one's career. It provides examples of how RHCE certification helped the author by giving them a solid Linux foundation, accelerating their growth, allowing them to manage servers effectively, and making them more valuable to their employer. The document also notes that many companies are increasingly adopting open source software due to cost savings and flexibility.

1. How You Can Get Ahead with Linux Certification Bernard Chew ( [email_address] ) Manager – IT Operations Architect – IT Infrastructure muvee

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7. National University of Singapore

8. ITIL V2 Manager

9. Certified IT Project Manager (Associate)

10. TOGAF Certified Enterprise Architect

11. Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)

12. Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer 2003 (MCSE 2003)

13. Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

16. Many free and open source projects resulting in a low cost and flexible IT infrastructure

18. Identify the differences and change your working habits

20. Manage the servers effectively

22. Almost no downtime

23. Resolves incidents faster

24. Gives me time to explore new projects

26. The number of companies adopting open source software will only be increasing

28. Flexibility

29. Choice

31. Office – OpenOffice

32. File sharing – Samba, NFS, FTP

33. Email – Sendmail, Postfix, Mailman, OpenWebMail

34. Helpdesk – Cerberus Helpdesk

35. Content Management Software – Alfresco

36. IT Infrastructure Monitoring – Nagios

37. Directory Services – OpenLDAP

38. Software bugtracking – MantisBT

39. Web – Apache, Squid, Tomcat

41. High Availability, Reliability and Performance

43. Tomcat

44. MySQL

45. HAProxy

46. Sendmail

47. Virtualization

48. Clustering

49. GFS

51. Being cost effective means getting the right tools for the job – be it open source, closed source, and increasingly cloud based

52. It is clearly being cross trained is more valuable than one trick ponies!

53. Thank you!