Open Source
Nexenta Partners with Universities for Higher Education Program
Nexenta, a provider of open source-driven
software-defined storage (OpenSDS), has launched a program to partner with
higher education institutions on developing technical curricula designed to
link theory with practice and prepare students for the workforce.
The company has already partnered with the Department of Computer Science
and Engineering in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado Denver, and the
university will offer its first course through Nexenta's Higher Education
Program beginning on Jan. 19, 2016. The course, Computer Storage Systems,
will be taught by Doug McCallum, a former storage engineer with Oracle and Sun
Microsystems, and will focus on advanced storage technology. The course will be
open to "exceptional undergraduate students and graduate students," according
to Nexenta.
Gita Alaghband, professor and chair of Computer Science and Engineering at
CU Denver, said the partnership will help teach students "how to approach
technology based on the needs of today’s enterprises." Technology is
changing rapidly and many companies are transitioning to cloud-based virtual
technology. "Nexenta’s knowledge of open source and software-defined
technology should help our students to gain a higher level of expertise, so, as
new storage engineers, they can hit the ground running when they start their
first jobs,” said Alaghband in a prepared statement.
Nexenta is currently developing other courses in partnership with San Jose State University and expects to begin
offering the courses in the near future.
Faculty or administrative staff at other universities or institutions that
are interested in participating in Nexenta's Higher Education Program should
contact the company's vice president of Marketing and Strategy, Jill Orhun.
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Leila Meyer is a technology writer based in British Columbia. She can be reached at [email protected].
