NITW to Offer Storage Management Course
By CXOtoday Staff
Mumbai, Aug 19, 2008

EMC and the National Institute of Technology, Warangal, formerly known as 'Regional Engineering College', have signed an agreement with EMC (Benelux) B.V. SARL, a subsidiary of EMC Corporation, to join the EMC Academic Alliance Program (EAA) in India. Under this program, National Institute of Technology, Warangal will offer a course in information storage and management technology to its students starting from January 2009.

This is the first National Institute of Technology in India to embrace the EMC Academic Alliance Program.

As part of the EAA, National Institute of Technology, Warangal will receive vendor agnostic curriculum, course content, learning materials, faculty trainings, and software simulators developed by EMC, to provide training to their students. EMC will also provide program support in terms of examination papers and sample assignments. Under EAA, EMC has forged alliances with over 100 education institutions across India. And today, more than 4500 students are enrolled in similar information storage courses across India as part of the EAA.

The EMC Academic Alliance is an initiative by EMC to work with the leading educational institutions around the world to address the emerging knowledge gap in storage technologies and developing a resource pool of skilled, certified and industry ready storage professionals. It 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 of National Institute of Technology, Warangal said "NITW is committed to provide state of the art technical training and education to our students. We are immensely pleased to be a partner with the one of the world leading providers of information infrastructure technology. 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."

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