Bangalore: What's in `store' for aspiring students who want to make a career in emerging areas of Information Technology?

They can soon acquire a professional qualification in a new discipline that may fuel one of the fastest growing sectors of the computer business — secure storage of information.

In a first-of-its-kind initiative, the world's number one provider of storage solutions for enterprises — the U.S.-based EMC — has picked the largest IT trainer in Asia, the Indian player, NIIT, to help formulate new training programme modules in the area.

Industry watchers such as IDC predict that the booming digital economy will create a demand for a million storage professionals within five years. In India alone, the disk-based storage business is growing at 72 per cent and is expected to reach one lakh terabytes by 2009 (one terabyte is a trillion chunks of information).

In a telephonic briefing for The Hindu soon after the alliance was sealed in Delhi, Manoj Chugh, EMC's Country Manager for India and the SAARC region, explained that the course content would be `completely vendor agnostic' — that means, the training would equip engineers to work on any of the popular storage systems — not just EMC's. However, for those who so chose, there were EMC certifications also available.

The Memorandum of Understanding was signed on Tuesday, on behalf of the partners, by Tom Clancy, EMC's Vice-President for Education Services, and G. Raghavan, NIIT's President for Individual Learning Business. NIIT will offer the storage education packages across the 31 countries.

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