EMC collaborates with colleges and universities worldwide to help prepare students for successful careers in a transforming IT industry. The Academic Alliance program offers unique ‘open’ curriculum-based education on technology topics such as cloud computing, big data analytics, and information storage and management. All courseware and faculty training are offered at no cost to qualifying higher education institutions. The courses focus on technology concepts and principles applicable to any vendor environment, enabling students to develop highly marketable knowledge and skills required in today’s evolving IT industry.

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EMC Academic Alliance
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Academic Alliance Overview
• Partnering with leading institutions of higher
education worldwide to offer unique ‘open’
information infrastructure curriculum
• Providing faculty readiness training, course
materials, labs, and online tests at no costs to
the alliance members
• Helping faculties to prepare students for roles in
an evolving IT industry where mobile, social,
cloud and big data are transforming IT roles and
management of information infrastructures
• Preparing faculties with latest materials from
EMC, an industry leader

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Transforming IT Landscape

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Many Industries Face Structural Changes

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Organizations Face Staffing Challenges
Source: “Digital Universe of Opportunities” Info Brief http://www.emc.com/collateral/analyst-reports/idc-digital-universe-2014.pdf

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EMC Bridges the Gap Between Today and Tomorrow

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A Unique Federation of Companies
Best Of Breed, Architected Horizontally, Unparalleled Choice

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Industry Leading, ‘Open’ Curriculum
A Unique Offering to Universities
Store,manage,andprotectdatain
classic,virtualizedand cloud
environments
Foundationsofbackup and
recovery conceptsandmethods
Hands-onpractitioners
approachtoanalyzingbigdata
Clouddeployment,servicemodels,
infrastructureandmigration
considerations

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Information Storage and Management v2
Store, Manage, and Protect Digital Information in Classic, Virtualized, and Cloud
Environments:
• Storage subsystems, RAID and intelligent storage
systems
• Storage networking technologies such as FC-SAN, IP-
SAN, FCoE, NAS and object-based, and unified storage
• Business continuity solutions, backup and replications,
along with archive for managing fixed content
• Key characteristics, services, deployment models, and
infrastructure components for a cloud computing
• Information security requirements and solutions, and
managing and monitoring storage infrastructure
This course is a must for all storage, systems, disaster recovery, backup-recovery
professionals. This content is also the basis for a technical best seller book by Wiley publishing
by the same title.

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Cloud Infrastructure and Services
The Cloud Infrastructure and Services (CIS) educates participants about cloud deployment and
service models, cloud infrastructure, and the key considerations in migrating to cloud
computing. For all definitions of cloud computing, the course has resorted to the U.S. National
Institute of Standards and Technology as a guide. The course covers technologies required to
build classic (traditional), virtualized, and cloud data center environments
• Cross-organization, cross-domain expertise
 Server, Network, Storage, and other cloud building blocks
• Organization-wide, shared understanding on:
 Objectives – Why cloud computing?
 Migration Roadmap – How to get there?
 Tools and Deployment Models
 Business continuity considerations
 Management responsibilities
 Security considerations
 Strategy, migration best practices

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Data Science & Big Data Analytics
• Hands-on practitioner’s approach to
analyzing Big Data
• Immediately participate and contribute
as a data science team member on big
data and other analytics projects
• Assist reframing of a business
challenge as an analytics challenge
• Deploy a structured lifecycle approach
to data science
• Apply appropriate analytic techniques
and tools to analyze big data
• Tell a compelling story to drive
business action
• Use tools such as “R”, MapReduce,
Hadoop, in-database analytics

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Backup Recovery and Systems Architecture
Develop solid foundation in backup and recovery infrastructure
including virtualization and cloud environments:
• Backup and recovery concepts, methods, and operations
• Various types of storage systems, concepts and
components
• Major sources of backup data, protecting data,
virtualization, client and remote office backups, backup
considerations and challenges
• Different types of backup storage media, their
advantages and disadvantages, deduplication systems,
cloud storage
• Backup and recovery planning, management, testing,
disaster recovery considerations

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Expanding the Value to Faculty and Students
• Faculty community
to access and share
resources
• Social media to
keep up–to-date on
industry
• Proven Professional
community to
interact with
industry
practitioners
• ‘Open’ curriculum built
by industry subject
matter experts
• Free eLearning
available on student
portal
• Free business
transformation
modules on cloud and
big data
Courseware Community
Industry
Recognition
• New EMC Academic
Associate recognition
• Earned by students
who pass online test
• Validates subject
knowledge
• Students receive EMC
certificate
• Students can use logo
and credential on
resume/CV/social
media
Evaluation
• New pre-built online
end of course tests
• Assess students’
knowledge using
tests built by EMC
subject matter
experts
• Easy-to-use faculty
interface for
administering and
accessing results

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EMC Academic Associate is a
resume-enhancing recognition
that demonstrates mastery
of the course topics through a
comprehensive test
created by industry experts and
administered by the faculty.
Industry Recognition for EMC Academic Alliance Students

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EMC Academic Associate Value to Students
• Share your credential on your
resume or CV
• Highlight your achievement on
social media
• Validate your knowledge
• Earn industry recognized
qualification
• Connect with 100,000+ network
of Proven Professionals
• Get technical answers or
guidance from global pool of
thousands of professionals and
experts
Affiliation with EMC’s
Industry Leading
Technical Community
Promote your Success
Earn your Academic
Associate recognition

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Complementary Programs
 VMware IT Academy
– Institutions teach VMware Education course content
– Over 1200 schools and 8000 students using VMware eLearning
– Some institutions create tracks using EMC and VMware courses
 Network Development Group (NDG) Labs
– Allows academic institutions to host real lab equipment, virtual
machines and lab content
– Labs available aligning with EMC, VMware, and Cisco academic
programs

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Getting Started with the Academic Alliance
1. Visit http://education.EMC.com/academicalliance
and click “Apply for Membership” to complete
and submit the online registration form.
2. Once approved, we will provide the faculty with
free training and access to course materials,
resources, and online support.
3. Faculty prepares to teach and schedules
class(es).
4. Faculty provides EMC with number of students
educated each year.
For more information, please email Academic_Alliance_Program_Office@emc.com .