NIIT : Project Pulse

NIIT has a strategic partnership with technology companies e.g. Cisco,

Microsoft, Oracle, Adobe etc. Under these partnerships, NIIT provides curriculum

to working professionals and career aspirants in IT. NIIT provides use of

hardware and software resources to give participants real time hands on

experience and work environment. NIIT found that deploying identical

infrastructure across hundreds of education centers was neither cost effective

nor green, as infrastructure is underutilized and also creates management

overhead. As a result, NIIT decided to setup virtual labs to reduce the number

of deployments by having centralized infrastructure. It also contributes to

Green IT by reducing CO2 emission that would have got generated due to massive

deployment at education centers. NIIT has used 'Cisco gear' to setup virtual

labs which can be accessed by its various centres from anywhere on time sharing

basis. Also NIIT has partnered with Reliance Communication Infrastructure for

co-hosting at Datacenter in Mumbai. NIIT has also setup a Cisco CCNA module

enabling students to have hands-on of real time devices. They are now using this

virtual lab gear to practice their lab exercises as part of the CCNA training

they are attending at NIIT.