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AppSync Fundamentals Provides an overview of EMC AppSync 1.5 architecture, features, supported applications, service plans, installation, reporting, and administration. Intended for administrators, architects, support engineers, and end users. Atmos Fundamentals Provides insight to Atmos features, functions, and capabilities and how Atmos can be used as a cloud storage solution. Intended for anyone responsible for selling, installing, supporting, or managing EMC Atmos. Connectrix Fundamentals Provides an introduction to the EMC Connectrix family of products and includes details on how Connectrix products are used to build Storage Area Networks. Intended for those positioning, designing, deploying, managing and supporting a solution using Connectrix products. Elastic Cloud Storage Fundamentals This course provides a high level overview of the EMC Elastic Cloud Storage solution covering basic features and functions, use cases, and deployment configurations including a ...

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Are you associated with EMC Academic Alliance ?  If so, submit a nomination today for the EMC Academic Awards 2015. These highly coveted awards honor Partner institutions, faculty and their academic officers (SPOC) at the grandest annual event - EMC Academic Summit 2015. Winners are selected based on the extra effort taken in empowering the student and faculty community thru EMC Academic Alliance. Award Winners become great references as well! *************************************** To Nominate your college / faculty, please follow details via https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-40701   ***************************************

EMC,  Directorate of Technical Education  ( DTE) - Govt. of Tamil Nadu and ICTACT today announced that they will be training teachers from over 350 polytechnics in Tamil Nadu on the newly introduced Information storage management courses in Polytechnic institutes.   The faculty training will be completed over a period of 2 months and is expected to benefit around 20000  students in 480+ Polytechnic colleges in the state.  EMC will provide the Technical expertise for the training and the training programme will be implemented at zero cost by EMC, ICT Academy of Tamil Nadu and DOTE, Govt. of Tamil Nadu. The aim of this initiative is to impart quality ICT education to students, make them industry-ready and help them compete effectively in a challenging global ICT environment.

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EMC's Academic Alliance program  recently announced the  introduction of  EMC Academic Associate Recognition .   The recognition aims at enhancing the employ-ability of students and extends some exclusive benefits like -   Offered FREE of cost Resume-enhancing industry recognition to validate your knowledge Affiliation with EMC’s industry leading Proven Community, where you can network and get technical guidance from global pool of thousands of EMC Proven Professionals and experts .  Logo to promote the recognition and credential on resumes, email signatures, and in social media.  More details on the same can be found on  :  https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-33154 

The latest  Security for Business Innovation Council (SBIC) report , providing guidance for how organizations can enable new competitive advantages in their business by transforming outdated and inflexible processes that govern the use and protection of information assets. The report highlights key challenges, upgraded techniques and actionable recommendations that can be used to plan and build new processes to help organizations gain business advantage and more effectively manage cyber risks. In this latest report titled  Transforming Information Security: Future-Proofing Processes ,  the Council observes that business groups within organizations are taking greater ownership of information risk management; however outdated security processes are hindering business innovation and make it difficult to combat new cybersecurity risks. The Council offers guidance calling for information security teams to collaborate more closely with functional business groups to ...

Pivotal is committed to being a significant force driving open source innovation and collaboration.  I recently updated a note on   EMC Academic Alliance  FB page related to Pivotal's open source projects and community initiatives.  Do check it via  Post by EMC Academic Alliance .

As we ended Q3 2013, the number looked even more impressive.  1000+ students visited#EMCIndiaCoE.   Here is a quick snapshot of the activities from the past quarter.  Read more on Storify [ View the story "Student Visits to EMC India Center of Excellence ( #EMCIndiaCoE) in Bangalore" on Storify ]

At the last EMC Academic Conference in India, Dr. Milind Bhandarkar delivered 2 talks.  Here is a short profile of the speaker and links to his sessions. Please feel free to share it – ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Milind Bhandarkar was the founding member of the team at Yahoo, that took Apache Hadoop from 20-node prototype to datacenter-scale production system, and has been contributing and working with Hadoop since version 0.1.0. He started the Yahoo! Grid solutions team focused on training, consulting, and supporting hundreds of new migrants to Hadoop. Parallel programming languages and paradigms has been his area of focus for over 20 years. He worked at the Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets, Siebel Systems, Pathscale Inc. (acquired by QLogic), Yahoo! and Linkedin. C...

This EMC Engineering TechBook describes how the VMware vSphere platform works with EMC Symmetrix storage systems and software technologies.  TechBook: Using EMC Symmetrix Storage in VMware vSphere Environments from EMC Academic Alliance

This white paper discusses how VMware's vSphere Storage APIs for Array Integration, also known as VAAI, can be used to offload perform various virtual machine operations on the EMC Symmetrix. White Paper: Using VMware Storage APIs for Array Integration with EMC Symmetrix from EMC Academic Alliance

I just loved the concept - Hear the Story, See the story .  As they define #EMCBlueprints as -  " EMC Blueprints is a new, innovative way of capturing the big ideas presented at EMC World.  While EMC's executives are giving their keynote addresses, artists trained in the practice of graphic recording will be producing visual transcripts of their talks. This involves listening to each talk, synthesizing the key ideas and recording them in a flow of images and text, all in real time. Hear the story.  See the story " Check them in detail on  http://pinterest.com/search/?q=EMCBlueprints  

The RSA Monthly Online Fraud Report offers the latest information on global phishing and malware trends.  RSA Monthly Online Fraud Report - June 2013 from EMC Academic Alliance

Did you know more than 200 colleges in India are part of EMC Academic Alliance   Here are my top reasons to join :  Prepares students on Storage, Cloud Infra, Data Science, Backup and Cloud Security. Offered at Zero Cost Opportunity for students to get certified on these technologies for less than $25 Only technology program from an industry leader, as we don't believe in vendor lock-ins No difference in offerings for academia and  corporate Most social educational program with more than 750K on facebook alone Developer opportunities for students  Fantastic support from Local Center of Excellence for Faculty and student events including visits  Help certified candidates find the right career ( coming soon ) Refer your College or University to EMC Academic Alliance via   http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BPWQQTF

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 Stor...

For the seventh consecutive year, we are pleased to recognize our EMC Proven Professional Knowledge Sharing authors. The Knowledge Sharing program has grown into a powerful platform for sharing ideas, expertise, unique deployments, and best practices among IT infrastructure professionals. We thank all those who participated in the 2013 Knowledge Sharing competition. The Winners Competition Elite Article: Leveraging Big Data to Battle Cyber Threats – A New Security Paradigm by Bruce Yellin (EMC Corporation) Competition Elite Article: The Software-defined Data Center – The Three Caballeros Finally Have Their Cloudy Day By Paul Brant (EMC Corporation) Building Better Management Storage Reports for Unified Storage Systems by Moshe Karabelnik (Verint Systems) Analytics on Big FAST Data Using a Realtime Stream Data Processing Architecture by Dibyendu Bhattacharya (HappiestMinds) and Manidipa Mitra (EMC) Corporation) NetWorker Integration for Optima...

Are you a professional who cannot attend 5 days of training ??  Here is a new solution   for all Cloud and Big Data Analytics lovers - A   One-day course and 90+ minute Executive Module  from  EMC Education Services. On a quick research into the course, some of the key observations are  :   Cloud and ITaaS for Business Transformation Courses -  Provides definitions, concepts, skills and strategies to leverage cloud and ITaaS for agility and efficiency within an organization Data Science and Big Data Analytics for Business Transformation Courses -  Provides the skills and knowledge to implement a Big Data strategy and lead an analytics team to success START NOW with the FREE executive model via  https://education.emc.com/guest/campaign/business_transformation  

I missed EMC World this year, but thanks to  vPass,   attended all sessions.   Here are the key sessions for you ( in case you have not been able to get it - starting from 7th May  ) General Session: Software-Defined Storage, David Goulden & Jeremy Burton Keynote: Transform Enterprise Storage to Create Business Value, Brian Gallagher, President, Enterprise Storage Division EMC Corporation General Session: The Platform for Next Generation Cloud and Big Data Applications, Joe Tucci & Paul Maritz Keynote: New Solutions: Delivered. Transformation: Delivered. Rick Devenuti General Session: The Software-Defined Data Center: The Foundation for IT in the Mobile/Cloud Era, Pat Gelsinger Keynote: The Power Of Three, Amitabh Srivastava Keynote: Change the Game with EMC Backup and Archive, Guy Churchward Keynote: Flash Unleased with VNX Innovations, Rich Napolitano, President, Unified Storage Division, EMC Corporation Keynote: Isilon - ...

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 ...