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Where the industry learns
Every company in the industry catalogue that exists to teach, certify or credential, pulled out of the timeline and grouped by what it is: a centre that sells a manufacturer's curriculum, a body that certifies a person, a platform that sells a library, a school that grants a degree. The distinction matters because the entries keep drawing it.
Authorised training centres
Companies that deliver a manufacturer's own curriculum through instructors the manufacturer has certified.
- 1977MicrocampThe pioneering was the audience, not the technology - and it taught on the machines the market reserve built.
- 1987EPIData-centre training and TIA-942 certification.
- 1993Ka SolutionCarries fifteen vendors' official curricula at once, which is a different business from carrying one.
- 1995Global KnowledgeEnterprise IT training company, a Cisco Platinum Learning Partner, now part of Skillsoft.
- 2000LAN ProfessionalSao Paulo distributor and authorised training centre for Cabletron, Enterasys, F5 Networks and IronPort.
- 2002InLearnBrazilian authorised training centre for F5 and Fortinet courses.
- 2003ReadyTechVirtual training platform for hands-on laboratories in instructor-led and self-paced delivery.
- 2005Red EducationTraining is distributed the same way products are, and this is what that looks like.
- 2005VersimPolish distributor and authorised training centre for Extreme Networks.
- 2005Grupo BinarioChose one vendor at founding and built a certification pipeline around it.
- 2007NTSec GroupBrazilian security integrator headquartered in Brasilia, with branches in eight states and its own academy.
- 2007FlipsideRan the security event that reached the people conferences usually price out.
- 2021QD7Sao Paulo cybersecurity consultancy combining monitoring, incident response and awareness training with LGPD work.
- Fast LaneGlobal IT training company delivering authorised curricula for Cisco, Microsoft, Aruba, NetApp and others.
- Grupo IHCBrazilian group whose three companies were founded in sequence, each out of the one before.
- QoSTeaching the manufacturer's certification courses since 2006, from inside an integrator.
Certification bodies and exam delivery
Organisations whose product is the credential itself, and the companies that administer the examinations.
- 1982CompTIAIts entire value was being owned by nobody, and in 2024 it was bought.
- 1989SANS InstituteFounded in 1989 by a former naval ship designer and his wife as a cooperative for exchanging technical information; now the largest security training organisation there is, with its own certification body, its own accredited college, and its own 2020 breach.
- 1990PrometricSix owners in thirty-five years, and the layer that deliberately does not write the questions it delivers.
- 1994Pearson VUEA certification is worth exactly what its verification is worth, and this is where the verification happens.
- 2001EC-CouncilThe most required certification in its field, and the most argued about, which are the same fact seen twice.
- 2001KryterionThe same parent that founded Prometric, doing it a second time - and proctoring online fourteen years before everyone had to.
- 2007OffSec (Offensive Security)Gives the tool away and charges for the proof that you can use it.
- 2012CredlyVerifies the credential, as its owner verifies the person - and the small company bought the big one's product before the big one bought it.
Learning platforms and labs
Libraries, marketplaces and lab environments where the instructor, the university or anyone at all supplies the course.
- 2004PluralsightFour instructors with 5,000 dollars each flew to offices to teach Microsoft tools in 2004; the 2007 pivot to an online subscription made it a 3.5-billion-dollar company; by August 2024 its lenders owned all of it.
- 2004AluraTwo brothers who wanted to be professors opened Caelum in 2004 on the block where they lived; the online platform of 2011 became Alura in 2013, and by 2025 the group they built, Grupo Alun, held FIAP, PM3 and StartSe.
- 2006SkytapCloud environment platform founded 2006 by university researchers, widely used for virtual training labs.
- 2007CloudShareIts founder bought it back from the investors for four dollars, then ran it profitably for a decade.
- 2010UdemyBuilt in 2010 by a founder from a Turkish village who had learned online because his school could not teach him; a marketplace of a quarter-million courses in seventy-five languages, absorbed into Coursera in May 2026.
- 2012CourseraTwo Stanford professors put three courses online in 2011 and each drew more students in weeks than either could teach in a career; in 2026 the company they founded absorbed Udemy and became the largest learning platform there is.
- 2012edXHarvard and MIT founded it in 2012 so anyone could take their courses free; in 2021 they sold it for 800 million dollars to a company that filed for bankruptcy three years later, with the money parked in a foundation that has barely spoken since.
- 2015StartSeFounded in 2015 in the interior of Minas Gerais with a two-hour online course that cost thirty reais; a year later four former partners of XP Investimentos bought in, and the product became the week-long mission to Silicon Valley.
Schools and research institutes
Institutions that grant degrees or run programmes rather than sell courses.
- 1970FatecState technology faculties offering short applied degrees rather than full engineering courses.
- 1976CPqDThe state research centre that survived the privatisation of the state.
- 2009Raspberry PiSingle-board computer created to get computing back into teaching, now embedded across networking and lab work.
Also tagged training
Entries carrying the training tag that the sections above do not name.