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EMC to train 350 polytechnic faculty members on Storage technologies via EMC Academic Alliance

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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.

Sessions by Dr. Milind Bhandarkar, Chief Scientist at Pivotal

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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...