25 Certifications That Matter For Cloud Professionals

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VMware Certified Professional-Data Center Virtualization

VMware's recently announced partnership with AWS, which should yield a generally available product later this year, bestows on VMware's already popular badge even greater relevance in the market.

A VMware Certified Professional specializing in Data Center Virtualization has demonstrated proficiency in designing, implementing and managing the vSphere virtualization suite for private clouds.

The average salary for a VMware Certified Professional 5-Data Center Virtualization was $96,309, according to the 2017 IT Skills and Salary Survey conducted by Cary, N.C.-based business training and certification company Global Knowledge.

With vSphere environments soon to be available through AWS, it's the rare "on-prem cert that transfers to cloud," said David Klee, founder of Heraflux Technologies, based in Portland, Maine.