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A few months back, i wrote about the availability of Cloud Infrastructure Services certification thru EMC Academic Alliance. Today, i would like to share insights on a few learning aids available for students, when preparing for the exam.  Lets start by answering the question,  Why should i enroll for Cloud Infrastructure and Services (EMCCIS) Exam ? .  A quick note for students : Some of the product details shared may have converged to drive the Software-defined vision, but the foundation to all technologies continue to remain the same. Hence, the videos shared are only to prepare you for the CIS exam and shall only compliment the theory learnt, Breaking the contents to respective modules ------------------------------------------------------------------ Module 1: Journey to the Cloud For Reading   EMC IT's Journey to the Private Cloud: A Practitioner's Guide Videos      Intro to Cloud Computing   --------------...

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...

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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 ...

Now lead your Transformation in 2013 with an EMC Proven Professional Certification. Some of the tracks avaialable are -  EMCDS -  Data  Scientist EMCCA -  Cloud  Architect EMCDCA -  Data Center Architect EMCSA -  Storage Administrator EMCTA -  Technology  Architect EMCApD -  Application  Developer EMCSyA -  System  Administrator Product/Technology  Specific Certifications Another good reason to get certified is that - this EMC World, EMCPP is available at a 50% discount to you. Learn more on  -  http://bit.ly/175FG2F

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...

At International Conference on Cloud & Big Data Analytics (ICCBDA 2013) - David Dietrich Advisory Technical Education Consultant, Big Data & Data Science, EMC Corporation - delivered the pre-conference talk on Big Data Analytics. Here is the Slidecast for you -  Big Data Analytics from EMC Academic Alliance

The Essential characteristics of cloud computing, as defined by NIST is as below :   There is no doubt that Cloud Computing will transforms the entire infrastructure - Store - Compute - Network Enter the new - Cloud Infrastructure and Services (CIS) Course, based on 'open' curriculum - focused on virtualization and cloud infrastructure technology concepts and principles applicable to any vendor environment.  Cloud  Infrastructure and Services (CIS)  is based on National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) definition of Cloud Computing What does the course cover ?   Pre- Req  Basic understanding of computer architecture, operating system, networking and database Experience in server, storage and network infrastructure will be an added advantage CIS is also aligned to  E20-002 Cloud Infrastructure and Services Exam, under EMC Proven Professional certification...