Hewlett-Packard, in partnership with International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore (IIIT-B) announced the HP Network University. The two day workshop was held on 12th & 13th January, 2012 at IIIT-B. Based at the IIIT-B campus the university allows IT Professionals to advance their IT knowledge in the delivery of next generation enterprise networks. The growth of networking technologies, new open standards and unified communications has increased the skill requirements of IT professionals.


To bridge this requirement, the Network University will provide the tools, methodologies and labs to teach the latest standards in networking solutions.  Course attendees will also learn how to transform their proprietary environments into open,agile networks and data centers based on HP Converged Infrastructure.Spread over three to six months, the course will cover basic toadvanced levels of networking, network security, consulting,unified communication and converged infrastructure.  HP and IIIT B will also establish up a dedicated lab to study and analyzenetworking technologies.


 

Speakers included, among others

• Uday Birje, HP India
  
• Biswanath Bhattacharya, HP India
  
• Prof. S Sadagopan, IIIT,Bangalore
  
• Amol Mitra, HP APJ
  
• Dr. YLR Moorthi, IIM,Bangalore
  
• Roger Lee, HP APJ
  
• Michael Yu, HP APJ
  
• Prof. H Krishnamurthy, IISc Bangalore
  
• Dr. Viswanath Poosala, Alcatel-Lucent
  
• Arun Shetty, Avaya AURA Sales & Consulting
  
• Ashok Verma, HP APJ
  
• Sanjay Jotshi, HP India