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NIIT : Project Pulse
NIIT setup virtual labs to reduce the no of deployments by having centralized infrastructure, and reduce CO2 emissions
Monday, June 01, 2009
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.
| Project Specs |
- Project Head: Pankaj Dikshit, GM
- Deployment Location: Mumbai
- Team Size: 10
- Tech Used: Apache, Perl, Cisco 2800 Series Routers, Cisco 3560
Series Catalyst Switches, Cisco 3600 Series router, Cisco ASA 5520 Series
Firewall, Element K for Virtual Lab setup
- Expected life: NA
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| Implementation Partner |
| Inhouse |
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