IBM Collaborates with JK Lakshmipat University, Jaipur for Providing Skills in Emerging Technologies

IBM (NYSE: IBM) has partnered with JK Lakshmipat University (JKLU), Jaipur to open IBM Software Lab for Emerging Technologies under its Career Education program. The lab is to equip faculty members and students with knowledge and skills to develop and deploy applications for Cloud environments, Big Data Analytics, Mobile Computing & Information Security.

IBM will enable the faculty and students of JKLU with capabilities for Cloud environments, Big Data & Information Security to incorporate courses offered by the Career Education program, as a part of its curriculum.  Participants will be able to access IBM’s Bluemix cloud platform. Bluemix is the Next Generation Cloud platform for building, running, and managing apps and services. The offering from IBM is based on open standards and supports several programming languages and services as well as integrated DevOps to build, run, deploy and manage applications on the cloud.

Dr. R L Raina, Hon’ble Vice Chancellor of JKLU says “To meet the burgeoning demand of domain field specialists in the field of Computer Science, JKLU has taken lead to introduce B.Tech Computer Science Engineering degree with specialization courses like Cloud Computing, Mobile Computing, Big Data Analytics and Information Security in collaboration with Industrial partner IBM. These courses would certainly provide astonishing breadth of opportunities to a Computer Science Engineering Graduate of JK Lakshmipat University. “ 

"We are pleased to partner with JKLU, who will help us deliver a blended program constituting technical and problem-solving skills.  With technology based on Cloud, Analytics and Big Data revolutionizing industries, it is imperative for students to be armed with relevant knowledge in these areas. This partnership will enable students undergo experiential learning modules led by an innovative curriculum developed and taught by IBM experts.  They will also work on projects that emanate from real-world business scenarios," said Mr. Kaushik Bhaskar, Vice President - India Software Labs.