NEW DELHI, INDIA: Cisco and NIIT have joined hands to develop and enhance the IT infrastructure management talent pool in the Asia Pacific region.
According to the agreement, NIIT will offer training programs on Cisco's tools and technologies in the networking and infrastructure management space across its select IT education centers in the Asia Pacific region.
The partnership is in line with Cisco's aim to expand India's networking workforce capacity to 360,000 engineers in the next five years, a six-fold increase from the present capacity, said Cisco in a statement.
"With these initiatives in place, we are able to ensure that our customers and partners have the resources available to train and equip the students in India with the necessary skills," said Leo Scrivner, vice president-HR, Cisco Services and Globalization Center East.
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