EMC signs MoU with SLIIT

Sara Pathirana

EMC Corporation, one of the leading top ten Information Technology (IT) organisation in the world, with a US$ 58 billion market capacity, is the second most admired company after Apple. EMC announced its amalgamation with Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT) yesterday. SLIIT joined the global EMC Academic Alliance programme (EAA) from the EMC Corporation, which offers universities and institutions worldwide with technology curricula towards educating and transforming the next IT generation and data science professionals.

Head, EMC Academic Alliance Programme, South Asia and Russia, Krishna Kant and Prof. Lalith Gamage, Managing Director/CEO, SLIIT after signing the MoU.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the two parties at the SLIIT Metro Campus yesterday.

EMC's aim is to offer its expertise in emerging technology areas to students at SLIIT, who also play a major role in materializing the IT sector in the country. Head of the EMC Academic Alliance Programme, South Asia and Russia, Krishna Kant, during his presentation said, "Sri Lanka's opportunity in this partnership with EMC is the void in skills gap of trained professionals in the field of Data Science and Big Data Analytics, where there is a huge phenomenal requirement for this skills set which would be filled with the introduction of this course which would be part of the IT engineering curriculum."

"The EAA is cultivating talent globally and we are interactively working with the best universities and technology educational institutions in the world and 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.

This partnership would alter the development of IT education in Sri Lanka," Kant added.

"At SLIIT, it is our effort and duty to educate our students on next-gen technologies and we are excited to join the EAA which is a world class programme from a global technology leader such as the EMC. More than 50 percent of the workforce comprise of our IT professionals.

As the industry develops, more specializations grow and as an institute, we have valued partnerships with organisations such as Microsoft and Oracle and we want to make it relevant with today's changing and progressing trends," Prof. Lalith Gamage, Managing Director/CEO, SLIIT said.

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