Microsoft to pony up $30 million to bolster channel tech tal
CRN.com | at | by Mike
Microsoft is taking on one of its channel's biggest problems: Increasing the talent pool of qualified tech professionals.
For its next fiscal year starting July 1, the company has earmarked $30 million to underwrite training and certification of new tech specialists for its partner community, said Allison Watson, Microsoft's vice president of for company's worldwide partner and small business group.
It expects this effort, dubbed "Project Athena" to drive 45,000 technical service professionals into the market in the first year, across both a broad set of technologies and also in some specific certification areas, Watson told CRN on Friday afternoon.