Montgomery County Community College Partners with Toolwire and Citrix to Train IT Professionals

Montgomery County Community College has introduced a series of new courses designed to train the at once generation of Information Innovation professionals. The coursework was developed to industry certification standards by Citrix Systems, Inc., a global leader in application delivery infrastructure, and Toolwire, Inc., a global leader in experiential learning technologies.

More than 230,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix, a leading provider of virtual computing solutions, for help in building simpler, cost-effective virtual work style and data center environments.

The Cloud era is here

"The Cloud era is here," cites Dan Myers, Academic Programs Manager at Citrix.  "We created the Citrix Academic Network to provide resources and programs to help IT educators and students learn the right skills for this new era.  Montgomery County Community College is piloting our new IT Academy program, and Toolwire is engaged to offer a low-cost remote lab solution for our virtualization courses.  It is a great example of public-private partnerships working at the same time to develop the workforce of tomorrow."

"Virtualization and cloud technologies are transforming the way business is done-and to be on the leading edge where the high-level jobs are, you need the right training, right now," commented Suzanne Holloman, Dean of Workforce Development and Continuing Education at Montgomery County Community College.  "Our certified instructors are trained directly by Citrix to teach students the in-demand job skills that drive virtual computing during preparing them for the Citrix Certified Administrator exam.  To boot, we will as well support students by connecting them to job opportunities with Citrix partners and clients."

Through Toolwire's LiveLabs, students will get in-depth experience configuring and managing virtual servers just as Windows and Linux virtual machines. Students will as well learn how to centralize and manage desktops and datacenter applications in order to deliver them as a service to users anywhere.

"We work closely with our partner institutions to co-create innovative educational technologies to enhance their curriculum," commented Cameron D. Crowe, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Toolwire. "This Citrix virtualization project represents a big step forward for Montgomery County Community College by enabling them to provide leading-edge research skills to their students."

About Montgomery County Community CollegeMontgomery County Community College has two conveniently located campuses in Blue Bell and Pottstown, Pa. The College boasts a nationally recognized, award-winning faculty committed to working closely at the same time with students in the learning process. The College's comprehensive curriculum includes 85 associate degree/certificate programs in 59 areas of study, including eight complete degrees offered absolutely online, and specialized workforce development and continuing education programs, all of which leverage the College's nationally ranked use of innovative research.

Learning solutions provider specializing in products

About ToolwireToolwire is a learning solutions provider specializing in products and services for experiential learning. Serving global leaders in both the private sector and Higher Education, Toolwire's core competencies include developing media-rich educational content and providing Learning-as-a-Service that fully supports the needs of learning institutions. Toolwire Learnscapes, StudentDesktops, Scenarios, and LiveLabs provide the quickest, most effective way to develop skills and enhance student success. These innovative learning solutions enable organizations to provide "virtual internships" across a broad range of subjects including Business, Health Care, Legal, Information Innovation, and more. For more information, please visit www.toolwire.com.