Novell offers professional courses to M-Tech students at Karunya University

BANGALORE, INDIA: Novell India, an Attachmate Group company in association with Karunya University introduces Novell's professional courses in their university curriculum. As part of the academic tie-up, the students pursuing M.Tech in Information Technology at the university will be offered industry accepted courses.

The Novell University Program would help engineering students to learn as well as to work on some of the most advanced and sophisticated technologies in areas such as mobility, cloud, big data etc.

The program would provide an opportunity for them to gain real-time experience on cutting edge products from the entire Attachmate Group portfolio, which includes SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, NOWS (Novell Open Work Group Suite), PlateSpin,  and Novell ZENworks Mobile Management.

Under the Novell University program, Novell will provide a cost effective bundled package which would include authorized training for the teachers, course ware for students, customized products for the university and certifications.

In addition to this, the university also plans to launch a Novell Excellence center to focus on these technologies at the Karunya University campus in Coimbatore.

The University program will feature a team of dedicated experts from Novell who will help train the teachers under the ‘train the trainer program'. The curriculum, which is an industry acknowledged course, will have curriculum support and instructor preparation in the following subjects that are added in their 4 semesters and the corresponding labs - NetIQ Access Manager, Identity Management, SUSE System Administration (CLP) & SUSE Cloud Computing.

"This is the first time that we will tie-up with a university in India. Going forward, we hope to partner with at-least another 15 - 20 universities this year to integrate our courseware into the curriculum in a bid and to benefit the maximum number of students in India ", said Venkatesh Swaminathan, country head, The Attachmate Group (Novell, NetIQ, SUSE & Attachmate).