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EMC Academic Alliance not only helps bridge the skill gap, but also prepares a pool of certified EMC Proven Professionals .  Today, EMC Academic Alliance offers the following 4 courses with certification programs :  Information Storage Associate (EMCISA) Certification exam will prepare you to make informed decisions about storing, managing, and protecting digital information in classic, virtualized, and cloud environments. Cloud Infrastructure and Services (CIS) is an 'open' course that covers the principles and concepts of virtualization and cloud Infrastructure technologies. The course is ideal for gaining a broad understanding of the transition from classic data center, to virtualized data center, to the cloud. CIS is aligned to Cloud Infrastructure and Services Associate (EMCCIS) Certification. Data Science and Big Data Analytics course provides hands-on practitioner's approach to the techniques and tools required for Big Data Analytic. Being Prov...

FreeStructure is a global movement focused on leveraging our growing volumes and understanding of data. Culminating in a three-day gathering in San Francisco, FreeStructure brings together data communities to explore data’s fullest potential to solve real problems being faced by businesses, communities and the planet. To see how your personal and professional life is affected by data or to join the conversation, visit http://www.FreeStructure.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates to Remember Call for Speakers ends on 2 April 2013 for following tracks   Big Data Fundamentals  Business of Big Data  Policy and Privacy  Visualization and Illustration  Case Studies  Create Your Own Track  Geeks of a Feather Event Date : July 16-18, 2013 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco --------------------------------------------------------------

Today,  Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT), the largest IT degree awarding institute in Sri Lanka, announced it has joined the global EMC Academic Alliance program (EAA). As part of this association SLIIT and EMC will work towards empowering future IT professionals in the following ways -  Offer  industry leading training programs from EMC Education Services on Information Storage & Management Backup Recovery Systems Cloud Infrastructure and Services  Data Science and Big Data Analytics    Special Discount on  EMC Proven Professional Certification  exams Access to EMC Weekly Tech talks   Regional events

Cloud represents the ideal infrastructure for dealing with vast quantities of data–or Big Data. Businesses are motivated to leverage Big Data because they know that locked inside of it are big opportunities. As a continuation to my post on  EMC IT's Journey to Cloud ,  i'm pleased to share a new w hitepaper on Business Analytics as a Service . This white paper examines how EMC is exploiting the Big Data opportunity with a new agile model for analytics and reporting. Business-Analytics-as-a-Service (BAaaS) significantly reduces total cost of ownership and provides predictive analytics proficiency and increased business agility. The paper details BAaaS architecture, deployment, results, best practices, and early adopter use cases.

RSA Security, released a special report from the Security for Business Innovation Council (SBIC) that assesses how disruptive innovations such as Big Data analytics , cloud computing, enterprise mobility and social media will transform enterprise IT and hammer away at the foundations of information security strategies in 2013.  The Council’s latest report details four strategies to help enterprises adapt information security programs to help enable business innovation over the next 12 months. These strategies include how to boost risk and business skills, court middle management, tackle IT supply chain issues and build tech-savvy action plans. The Council’s guidance will help enterprises face the impact of the technology adoption of cloud computing , social media , mobile and Big Data . The Council also outlines the major impacts of these trends for security teams and how to address them.  Cloud Computing – The accelerated adoption of cloud will push security conc...

We live in a world of Big Data . This year alone, over a trillion gigabytes of new data will be created globally. Big Data presents a big challenge – but also exciting new opportunities for enterprises to rise above the competition.  Keeping this in mind, the teams at  EMC   and Greenplum launched  Real Big Data (  www.therealbigdata.com ) -  as a place for the latest news and discussions in the world of  Big Data . In the last few months, the team has built a series of guides with some very good information on Big Data .  You may download the same from the link below -   Big Data: A CIO’s Cut Out and Keep Guide -  Every now and then something comes along that has the potential to change the face of business as we know it. Currently big data is being touted as that thing, and CIOs everywhere need to get a grip on what it is and how it can benefit their company.  Big Data: Riding the Wave | A Guide for IT ...

EMC  Greenplum sponsored a series of  thought-provoking  booklets, edited by  innovation technology guru Peter Hinssen  and published by Across Technology.  To keep you  informed on a constant basis, they have created  the Data Science Series website ( www.datascienceseries.com ), offering you case stories  from your peers, valuable insight into market research and an overview of the Catalyst partners  that help EMC Greenplum bring the right building blocks to the market. Allowing you to build  the right ‘refinery’ for all the information that is coming your way. Make sure you don’t miss the installments of the series. Click below to read them one by one -  Information is the new oil -  Markets are fast disappearing, and being replaced by networks. Networks of intelligence. Consumers can’t be controlled anymore, and become active, and are turning markets into dynamic systems. The age-old subject of mar...

In the legacy analytics process, data scientists face challenges in accessing and sharing the right data. GreenplumChorus helps foster a complete data science ecosystem with best-of-breed analytics applications. As a social platform for collaborative data science, Greenplum Chorus users can increase productivity, decrease administrative burdens on IT infrastructures, and get better visibility and faster access to data through a single tool. EMC recently released the Greenplum Chorus source code under an Apache open source license through the  OpenChorus  Project. The OpenChorus Project will speed innovation and adoption of collaborative data science practices, helping organizations to drive greater business insight and economic value from Big Data. Making OpenChorus accessible to Data Scientists Greenplum and Kaggle joined forces to tackle the short supply and heavy demand for data scientists with an integration between the Kaggle data science c...