Big Data and the Urgency of College-Level Data Storage & Virtualization Curriculum

The two most challenges facing the IT Managers and CTOs today are the unimaginable rapid growth of data and the 24/7 access to it. Accommodating, managing and sustaining the astronomical amount of corporate data access around the clock in the most secure environment is only possible through new technologies such as data center storage and virtualization. Today, majority of our computer science and Information Engineering programs in the North America are lacking the studies of these topics in their curricula; thus the graduating bodies will miss out on so many job opportunities offered by many industries in these areas. Many of these companies have to provide extensive training for their new hires on fundamental data storage and virtualization topics which are the building blocks of rapidly growing Cloud Computing & Services, and Big Data technologies. Today, few data storage companies have successfully forged academic alliances with various colleges to fill the gap for much needed data storage and virtualization savvy new-hires engineers and IT staff.