EMC has partnered with Indian training company NIIT to train storage professionals in 32 countries. The alliance is the first of its kind by EMC, and aims to fill a shortage of storage and information management professionals worldwide, Manoj Chugh, EMC’s country manager for India, said on Tuesday. About 25,000 professionals are expected to be trained in India alone over the next three years, Chugh said. EMC will provide curriculum and training for NIIT staff. With a strong presence in India and China, NIIT is also expanding gradually in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Rapid growth in the volume of data being stored by organizations is expected to create demand for 1 million new storage professionals worldwide by 2012, Chugh said, quoting storage industry estimates. The courses offered will include a foundation course, a specialist course and an expert course. Students enrolling in the programs will be certified by EMC through Thomson Prometric, a third-party testing and certification business of The Thomson Corporation. The course content will be vendor-independent, according to Chugh. The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), an industry consortium based in San Francisco, Calif., is also running programs to train storage professionals, and in October EMC announced that EMC Education Services and the SNIA have agreed to recognize each other’s certification programs. Chief information officers want professionals who are trained on a vendor-independent curriculum, but they would prefer that the training is endorsed by an industry leader like EMC, which has built a curriculum from its deep knowledge of customers, Chugh said. NIIT will offer the training under its “Edgeineers Series” for engineering students and working professionals, though down the line it may include the program in its standard course offerings. The program will be rolled out in the next quarter across 50 NIIT centers in India. The program will then be rolled out in China, and from there to other locations where NIIT has a presence, Chugh said.—John Ribeiro, IDG News Service (Bangalore Bureau) Related content opinion Website spoofing: risks, threats, and mitigation strategies for CIOs In this article, we take a look at how CIOs can tackle website spoofing attacks and the best ways to prevent them. By Yash Mehta Dec 01, 2023 5 mins CIO Cyberattacks Security brandpost Sponsored by Catchpoint Systems Inc. Gain full visibility across the Internet Stack with IPM (Internet Performance Monitoring) Today’s IT systems have more points of failure than ever before. Internet Performance Monitoring provides visibility over external networks and services to mitigate outages. By Neal Weinberg Dec 01, 2023 3 mins IT Operations brandpost Sponsored by Zscaler How customers can save money during periods of economic uncertainty Now is the time to overcome the challenges of perimeter-based architectures and reduce costs with zero trust. By Zscaler Dec 01, 2023 4 mins Security feature LexisNexis rises to the generative AI challenge With generative AI, the legal information services giant faces its most formidable disruptor yet. That’s why CTO Jeff Reihl is embracing and enhancing the technology swiftly to keep in front of the competition. By Paula Rooney Dec 01, 2023 6 mins Generative AI Digital Transformation Cloud Computing Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe