Learn how you can enhance student career prospects in the world of IT through the EMC Academic Alliance program that provides the technology-based Information Storage and Management (ISM) course. This course covers information storage technologies including storage networking, business continuity, virtualization, security, and management.

In this session you will:

* Learn what the EMC Academic Alliance program has to offer members including faculty training, Instructor PPTs, product simulators, and secure web portals for faculty and students.
* Have an opportunity to use the EMC Navisphere Manager Simulator which simulates configuration and management activities of EMC CLARiiON Storage Systems. Activities include provisioning storage to the host, configuring disaster recovery options and staging data for online data backups.
* Learn about 3 open source software tools (Iometer, Openfiler and FreeNAS) that faculty are using for hands-on lab activities to support the ISM course.

Kim Yohanan, EMC Academic Alliance Manager