EMC, NIT Warangal Sign Education Agreement

EMC, a provider of information infrastructure solutions, has announced that the National Institute of Technology, Warangal, has signed an agreement with EMC (Benelux) B V SARL, a subsidiary of EMC Corporation, to join the EMC Academic Alliance Programme (EAA) in India. Under this programme, National Institute of Technology, Warangal, will offer a course in information storage and management technology to its students starting from January 2009.

As part of the EAA, National Institute of Technology, Warangal, will receive vendor agnostic curriculum, course content, learning materials, faculty training and software simulators developed by EMC, to provide training to its students. EMC will also provide programme support in terms of examination papers and sample assignments.

The EMC Academic Alliance is an initiative by EMC to work with leading educational institutions around the world to address the emerging knowledge gap in storage technologies and to develop a resource pool of skilled, certified and industry-ready storage professionals. This is the only programme in the industry, which offers a vendor neutral, product agnostic storage technology curriculum to the students. Some of the EMC Academies include PSG College of Technology, IIIT Bangalore, UPTEC and Manipal Institute of Technology.

Dr Y Venkateswara Rao, director, National Institute of Technology, Warangal, said, “NITW is committed to provide state-of-the-art technical training and education to students. This agreement with EMC will enable our students to learn about the latest technologies in the information storage and management space, a fast-growing segment of the IT industry.”

“We are certain that our partnership with EMC will help us to impart the relevant skills to our students and produce industry ready engineers who are prepared to contribute efficiently to the rapidly growing information storage and management industry,” he further added.

Alok Ohrie, president, EMC India and SAARC region, said, “The world is witnessing a digital information deluge. The sheer volume and complexity of the information generated and replicated everyday has thrown up a plethora of challenges for organisations worldwide. But, the industry lacks the right kind of infrastructure and resource pool to tackle this situation in an efficient way. Our estimate says that there will be a requirement of one million skilled information storage professionals by 2012. We are certain that this partnership with the National Institute of Technology, Warangal, will go a long way in helping us address this issue of ‘storage knowledge gap’ existing in the industry.”