Hopkinton-based EMC Corp., which employs more than 53,000 people around the world, has its own type of solution for the high-tech skills gap – developing its own vendor-agnostic curriculum for colleges and universities to train the IT workers of tomorrow.
EMC announced that its EMC Academic Alliance is now being used by more than 1,000 schools around the world. Thirteen schools in Massachusetts – including Framingham State University, Dean College, Quinsigamond Community College and Worcester State College – use the curriculum, according to EMC.
The company commissioned a recent survey which found that the amount of data managed by enterprise data centers will grow by 14 times by 2020, while the number of new IT professionals is projected to lag far behind, growing by a factor of only 1.5 by then.
“The careers of tomorrow, in areas like cloud architecture and data science, require that we invest in developing people with the skills required to fill those roles,” said Howard Elias, president and COO of EMC Information Infrastructure and Cloud Services.
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