VTU Students : Opt for Storage Area Network (10CS765/10IS765/10MCA555 ) in the next semester

India produces the highest ## of engineers today and quality remains a question mark for all. A good example from my experience is - 

Question : Where does a Facebook/Google store its data                             

Answer : "Hard Disc"                                                                                                      

Question : "And where do you think the hard disc is."                              

Answer : "Server"

Hmmmm....is't that crazy. 

Realizing this, we took our Industry recognized open course ( on Storage Networking ) thru EMC Academic Alliance to university curriculum boards. Some of the pro-active ones have adopted it into the core curriculum, where as some have the same as an elective.  

One such early adopters has been Visvesvaraya Technological University ( who added it as an elective ), with over 150 colleges from the state of Karnataka. 

|| I still could not convince them to change the title from Storage Area Network (as it looks to talk only 10 % of the topic ) to Information Storage & Management or Storage Networking & Backup or Information Storage & Protection. ||

Over the last few years, the ## of students taking the course has come down significantly. On my inquiry, i again found the same crazy reasons like - 

"Other subject textbooks were thinner than yours"

"Will you guarantee me a job, if i opt for an elective" 

"There is nothing to learn in storage" 

While thinking of a way to make students/faculty understand the value of offering/learning an Industry-recognized course ( sold commercially on Amazon as well ), i came up with the Top 10 reasons to why you should opt for our ISM v2.

Please feel free to pass the message to all and work together on creating a pool of employable professionals.

Remember : i don't advocate teaching on products, as i believe vendor lock-in's will only serve the organizations marketing teams.