SLIIT joins EMC Academic Alliance Program

Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT), the largest IT degree awarding institute in Sri Lanka, announced it has joined the global EMC Academic Alliance program (EAA) from EMC Corporation.

The EAA program provides universities worldwide with technology curricula to educate and transform the next generation of IT and data science professionals, and help meet the industry’s growing demand for advanced technology skills.

The news was announced by Professor Lalith Gamage, Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology and Krishna Kant, Head, EMC Academic Alliance, South Asia and Russia, EMC at the SLIIT Metro Campus, Colombo.

EMC Academic Alliance Program, South Asia & Russia Head Krishna Kant with Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer Professor Lalith Gamage

SLIIT is the first institute in Sri Lanka to partner with EMC and offer Information Storage and Management (ISM) as part of their curriculum. The course will be part of the IT engineering curriculum for students in the final year.

In addition, SLIIT will also offer advanced courses from EMC in emerging technology areas such as cloud computing, backup recovery systems and architecture and data science and big data analytics to its students. As a part of the EAA, EMC will provide SLIIT with instructor training, teaching resources and course materials to expand the Institute’s expertise and knowledge in line with the latest industry trends.

With more than 85,000 EMC Proven Professional certifications worldwide, EMC is providing current IT professionals with the skills to adapt for the future, and the capabilities needed to successfully implement transformational technologies in their organisations.

More than 1,000 colleges and universities have adopted EMC’s “open” curriculum, allowing today’s students to develop the leading-edge skills to become the next generation of IT and data science professionals. The EMC Academic Alliance provides faculty with free training and resources to teach information infrastructure technologies.

Through the EMC Academic Alliance program, more than 150,000 students in 60+ countries have completed courseware that prepares them to contribute to, and make informed decisions about, projects that range from storage networking, to cloud migration, to Big Data analytics.

Professor Gamage: “At SLIIT, it is our endeavour to educate our students on next-gen technologies. We are excited to join the EAA which is a world class program from a global technology leader like EMC. We believe that this will allow our students to acquire the relevant skills and make them industry ready as they join the IT workforce.” Kant said:  “EAA is cultivating talent globally and we are working with the best universities and technology education institutions in the world. We are proud to have a premier IT institute such as SLIIT, which produces the largest number of IT graduates in Sri Lanka, join the EAA. Our aim is to provide EMC’s expertise in emerging technology areas to SLIIT students, who play a major role in the emerging IT sector in the country.”