Sun Microsystems and NIIT have expanded their relationship to offer training in the growing Open Source Computing, through Sun Solaris Training programs. As part of the alliance, NIIT will offer specialized training programs through its network of education centres as well as specialized Solaris labs to be set up in key metro cities, to a large population of students and software professionals in the country.
Through this alliance, NIIT has access to the latest Sun technologies, tools, technical resources and curricula on Java & XML, and Solaris OS System administration.
This initiative is the latest in Sun's drive to provide academic developers with the educational tools and resources they need to cultivate important IT skills, participate in today's global economy, and contribute to the innovation of new technologies.
New offerings from Sun-NIIT alliance:
As part of its NetworkLABS curriculum, NIIT will now offer Training and Certification on Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) to students, thus enhancing their skills and giving a comprehensive knowledge of this innovative operating system.
• For Undergraduates – As part of the ongoing efforts to continuously enhance learning offerings, and bringing the latest and best Technology programs for students, NIIT will now integrate the Solaris 10 OS Training and Certification into its NetworkLABS curriculum, aimed at career aspirants of the expanding IT Infrastructure Management Services industry. Students will get to work on the new functionality of Solaris 10 OS with features like optimal utilization, relentless availability, unparalleled security and extreme performance, thus enhancing their employability. These programs would be offered as modular specialization programs in the NetworkLABS curriculum.
• For Working professionals - The high-end Solaris 10 curriculum will be integrated into NIIT's CATS (Curriculum for Advanced Technology Studies) offerings. This will allow professionals to ramp up Solaris 10 OS skills.
Speaking at the launch, Dr Karie Wilyerd, Vice President & Chief Learning Officer, Sun Microsystems Inc, said, “Sun's goal is to empower academic developers through sharing, collaboration and open innovation—the key elements of what we at Sun refer to as the Participation Age. Our relationship with NIIT lets students help each other, gain hands-on experience with leading-edge, open source technologies and prepare for the next age in the education process—what we term as Learning 2.0. Not only will these students be prepared to compete in the global economy, they will also go on to create amazing new innovations.”
According to Mr. Vijay K Thadani, CEO, NIIT, “The industry is currently grappling with the exceeding shortage of skilled manpower in emerging global technologies. We are happy to further strengthen our partnership with Sun, in line with our efforts to provide the latest and best technology training programs for students and the industry. Through this initiative, students will gain relevant skills and employability and the global IT industry will have access to a pool of trained manpower on emerging technologies including Open Source computing.”
After a phenomenal success of the joint initiative in the first year, Sun and NIIT are exploring the possibility of expanding this partnership to offer Java and Solaris technology programs to students in China and other emerging markets.
NIIT and Sun are also looking forward to providing specialized, hi-end training programs on Solaris, Identity Management, Java CAPS aimed at Enterprises to evolve skills and make them ready for the next generation of technology innovations. NIIT would leverage its strengths in Instructional Design and Delivery capabilities to offer these hi-end programs. Both organizations are also looking at working together in developed markets through NIIT-ElementK enhanced capabilities to provide training solutions for enterprises.
Mr. Bhaskar Gandhavadi, Chief Learning Officer, Sun Microsystems India said, “The Sun-NIIT relationship has been extremely fruitful and the response from the education community has been very encouraging. While initially our focus was on the Sun Java platform, we felt that the time is ripe now to introduce Solaris 10 OS as it is emerging as the platform of choice. It has worldwide acceptance both in the developer and the education community alike”.
The huge success of the joint initiative is evident from 15,000 student enrolments in the Java programming course at over 200 education centres of NIIT, in the last 6 months.
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