{"id":111,"date":"2011-10-29T22:16:25","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T20:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/?p=111"},"modified":"2012-04-22T20:55:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T18:55:52","slug":"netapp-silver-partner-course-time-well-spent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/?p=111","title":{"rendered":"NetApp Silver Partner Course &#8211; Time Well Spent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently have enrolled the company I work for in the NetApp Silver Partner Program. And, as one of the prerequisites put by the Distri, at least one of the employees of a new Silver Partner company has to follow a NetApp Silver Partner Course organised by the distri. Me and a colleague from work were attending this course, with a total of 5 participants. The teacher should have checked the technical level he was up against, us 2 were way more developed in our NetApp fu than the others. In short: you can learn a lot of the product if you&#8217;ve never or nearly never heard of it. WHen you are experienced with it, it&#8217;s not recommended. Or a waste of your time. On the other hand, I can understand that a distri \/ producer wants to have a decent and equal level of knowledge from alll their new partners. It&#8217;s a tick on their checklist. So, that&#8217;s how I see it. A waste of time, but necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently have enrolled the company I work for in the NetApp Silver Partner Program. And, as one of the prerequisites put by the Distri, at least one of the employees of a new Silver Partner company has to follow a NetApp Silver Partner Course organised by the distri. Me and a colleague from work &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/?p=111\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NetApp Silver Partner Course &#8211; Time Well Spent?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3],"tags":[15,19,18,20],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storage","tag-netapp","tag-partner","tag-silver","tag-training"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5hbZj-1N","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}