EMC Academic Alliance - India Quarterly Q1 2013

April 2013 – Academia Connect is our quarterly that keeps you updated on latest from EMC Academic Alliance – India & SAARC activities. New Partner Sign-ups 100+ new EAA Partners enrolled from Tamil Nadu : 118 new Institutes from Tamil Nadu have joined EMC Academic Alliance, with an intent to offer Cloud Infrastructure Services (CIS) course to engineers in the upcoming semester First IIM Joins EMC Academic Alliance :  Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode joined EMC Academic Alliance to offer Data Science & Big Data Analytics Course. Sri Lanka Institute of Technology ( SLIIT ) - the single largest private university in the country -  joins EMC Academic Alliance COE Engagements ·         Celebrating Success of EMC Academic Alliance at COE:  EAA recently reached an important milestone: To date, more than 1,000 academic institutions have joined the EMC Academic Alliance program. Through member institutions, the program has educated over 150,000 students in 60 countries—spreading EMC mindshare far and wide in the process. Sarv Saravanan, VP & MD, India COE chaired the celebration and also recognized some of the key supporters of the program. o    Photos on Facebook ·         Visits to EMC Center of Excellence in Bangalore o    Students of HKBK College of Engineering, Bangalore visited us on 4 March 2013 o    Students of Siddaganga Institute of Technology (SIT), Tumkur visited us on 4 March 2013 o    ICT Academy of Tamil Nadu visited us on 5 March 2013 Forum / Summit Participation More than 200 Faculties join EMC Academic Forum 2013 at PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore. Speakers included  - Pushpendra Kumar Gupta, Director and Chief Architect - EMC & SNIA South Asia Chairman - Manjunath Kashi, Senior Director - IT, VMware- Dr Milind Bhandarkar, Chief Scientist, Machine Learning Platform at Greenplum- Ullas Nambiar, Consultant Research Scientist at CTO Office, EMC India COE   - David Dietrich, Advisory Technical Education Consultant Big Data & Data Science , EMC Corporation       More info on the event  One day workshop on CLOUD and BIG DATA in association with Gautam Budh Technical University (GBTU) - Geoff Hayden, COO, APJ and Rajesh Janey, President, India delivered the keynote addresses followed by sessions from Surajit Sen on Back up Recovery, Pradyumn Lavaniya on Cloud Infrastructure Services & Saqib Ghani on Information Storage Management. Cloudscape 2013 : A one day event spread across 10 cities and 12 Universities. 3000+ students participated in the event which had technical sessions followed by an online quiz. The students were educated on fundamentals of Cloud and the online quiz helped them assess their skill levels. ICTACT Bridge 2013, Chennai - Murale Narayanan, Director - Global Infrastructure & Services participated in a panel discussion hosted as part of the event. More than 1000+ academicians attended the event hosted at Chennai trade center Media Coverage ·         More than 100 heads of departments attended  the  “ Cloud Computing – Addressing the opportunity in Academia” talk series at   Madurai  & Coimbatore ·         EMC Proven Professional Batches  o    East Point College of Technology, Bangalore Faculty Development Programs ·         300 + faculties from 100 + colleges were trained on Cloud Infrastructure Services  o    Coimbatore , Madurai,  Bangalore, Bhopal and Indore Webinar Series ·         More than 500 attend Tech Talks delivered by o    Pradeep Jain on Security o    Prakash Venkatanarayanan on Enterprise Storage o    Smartha G. Thakurta on Unified Storage o    Ashwani Kumar on Next Generation Back up & Recovery Media Coverage Companies battle talent crunch in the cloud The crucial role of data scientist 2013: The year of the cloud architect SLIIT joins EMC Academic Alliance Program SLIIT joins EMC Academic Alliance Program EMC signs MoU with SLIIT EMC signs MoU with SLIIT Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology Joins EMC Academic Alliance Program Follow EMC Academic Alliance  on  || Facebook || Twitter || Slideshare || LinkedIn || Pinterest || Subscribe to our Weekly via http://bit.ly/eaaweekly © 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved.