Some 45 students have graduated from the EMC Academic Alliance programme with Middlesex University, Dubai, in the Cloud Infrastructure and Services course.

Offered to both undergraduate and postgraduate IT students at the University’s Dubai Knowledge Village campus since October 2012, the course provided 40 hours of content covering technology essentials in several key areas, including servers, storage, networking, applications, and databases.  

The graduating students were honoured at an event titled the ‘MDX Cloud Talk’, which brought together students and faculty of the programme along with representatives from EMC, to highlight the importance of industry-academia collaboration.The collaboration’s main objective is to supplement higher education IT curricula by providing market-relevant courses that highlight current solutions and best practices while promoting research into the transforming IT landscape.

The graduated students are now on their way to achieve an advanced certification in Cloud Infrastructure and Services Associate Certification (EMCCIS). - TradeArabia News Service