SKILLING UP FOR MEGA TRENDS IN IT-CLOUD COMPUTING, BIG DATA 2012

A Confluence of Academia & Industry

SKILLING UP FOR MEGA TRENDS IN IT-

IS THE ACADEMIA READY?

Seema Shah

From Mainframes to Cloud

Grid Computing

Cloud Computing

Mainframe

Current status of academiaIn the Indian context

Faculty : Content Teaching

methodology Delivery

mechanism Feedback Encouraging

creativity

Students : What do they

learn? Learning methods Developing

appropriate skillset

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” ― Socrates

Current Trends in Academia

Institute: Quality of graduates and employability

Teaching learning processes Research activities Use of technology in classrooms Use of laptops, handhelds, ipads and

even mobile devices, online testing, LMS, CMS etc.

Real life applications and Live projects

Convergence of Competing Paradigms/Communities Needed

Web Data Centres Utility Computing Service Computing Grid Computing P2P Computing Cloud Computing Market-Oriented

Computing …

•Ubiquitous access•Reliability•Scalability•Autonomic•Dynamic discovery•Composability•QoS•SLA•…

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Paradigms

Attributes/Capabilities

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A self review

Are we geared to produce the skill set needed tomorrow ?

Are we producing engineers for the next generation?

Do we know the technologies which are needed today and even a few years down the line?

Are we inculcating hunger for knowledge among students ?

Is qualitative research happening in Institutes?

Mega Trends in IT

Cloud computing Big data

Is Academia producing the right skillsets?

Industry Institute Interaction Understand the gap Skillset gap:

Attitude Technical skills (technologies which are

relevant today and tomorrow) Logical and Analytical thinking skills Learning to Learn Communication skills Team work

Programming paltforms

Move from traditional structural programming platforms to python, Ruby on rails, Spring etc. to do app development on various web enabled devices used

Increasing use of Devices and Apps

Range of portable devices

Web enabled apps

Hosted on cloud

Using Hadoop

How do we bridge the skillset gap?

Encourage students to apply concepts, relate to live scenarios

Internships in Organizations and within and Institute

Live projects Maintain Institute website, VIOLA 3.0 , V Print,

Vrefer, V place, V Feeds, VAiOS, Live@edu, On demand information, and many more

Strong focus on enhancing Faculty competency

Enhance Industry Institute Interactions and alliance programs

Lets do a reality check!

VIT-EMC Corporation Academia Alliance

Initiated in 2010 Faculty STTPs Faculty Lounge PIVOT-2010, Industry Academia meet Daily technical feeds: http

://www.facebook.com/EMCacademicalliance

EMC webinars Expert talks by seniors from Industry Certification benefits Many more

FINAL COMMENTS

Mega trends in IT: Cloud Computing and Big Data:

Are here to stay. Deployments and usage will increase over a

period of time. Is the Academia ready to join this

journey?

QUESTIONS ?

“Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is

success.” ― Henry Ford