AskProven: I want to know about how to enter this industry.

Most of the storage admins were "promoted" from server admin to storage admin, when the company they worked for suddenly decided to buy some storage array and somebody had to manage that device.

If you can find a consultancy company that needs storage consultants or admins who are willing to invest time and money in your education to become a Proven Professional, that's another possibility.

If you already know a lot about storage arrays, SANs, HBAs it's way easier to get a contract at some company as the new storage trainee than to start from scratch.

My name is Rob Koper and I'm based in the Netherlands, I work for an inovative EMC partner called Open Line Consultancy (www.openline.nl) and we do projects, have long term contracts with customers to remotely support their storage and we place colleagues at customer's sites to help the local admins keep everything up and running.

I'm a proven professionel since 2004 and I hold the following certifications:

Implementation Engineer Expert on Clariion (IEe)

Technology Architect Specialist on Clariion (TA)

Implementation Engineer Specialist on Symmetrix/DMX (IE)

Technology Architect Specialist on Symmetrix/DMX (TA)

Well, to enter this industry you need know storage fundamentals. One of the easiest and best ways from my point of view is to buy EMC ISM book and EMC Proven Professional Starter Kit that includes voucher to pass your first EMC exam (e20-001 EMC information storage and managment) and get certified. This book and course covers all required storage fundamentals and best material to prepare to exam. Then when you get certified it is easier to find interesting offers and to get employed. That's it and nothing more.

Good luck!

Marat Salakhutdinov

marat@salakhutdinov.net

Kazan, Russia

EMC Proven Professional
(EMCISA) - Information Storage Associate (october 2010)

Hi Saagar,

This was the same question haunted me an year ago. I too was a student graduating from Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University an year ago. Becoz of a session I attended by EMC in my college, I decided to take up the certification Information Storage and Management (E20-001) and made the certification achievement visible in numerous job portals like Naukri.com, Monster.com. As soon I graduated out from my college I was invited to attend interviews from various companies like IBM, HSBC GLT and many more. But luckily I came to know about EMC recruiting graduates in India in June 2010 and due to the certification I had an edge over others. So I advise you to do the certification and make it visible/leverage in numerous job portals. You can read my posts below in ECN and keep in touch to get more information when EMC will be recruiting graduates in India.

https://community.emc.com/message/520699#520699

https://community.emc.com/message/519576#519576

Oops, I forgot to include my name, certification and location.

Chilkuru Ragunath

Associate Software Engineer,

India COE,

Bangalore, Karnataka

India.

EMCISA (ISM: E20-001)

EMCPA  (ETF: E20-040)

chilkuru.ragunath@emc.com

You need to check the possible offers by company in your country that ara parthner of USA coorporate operating in sylicon Valley . And then , if you have a very good skill and a very good public relation you can try to jump into something great big USA Coorporate!

I've been like to work in Sorint (  in Italy )  that was primary parthner in solution delivery for Sun Microsystems.

I'm work for Sun , throught this company for 10 years so  , I know very well Solaris 2.6 , 2.7, 2.8 , 2.9 and Solaris 10. I'm a SunCluster 3.x Certified

and I've have been installed, certified , upgrada hundry and hundry of SunCluster. With Sun I'm specialized also with Veritas (now Symantec) Volume Manager ( 3.0 , 3.2, 3.5, 4.0 , 5.0 ) and Junior Veritas Cluster administrator.  I know very well all SUN HW  from old Sparc Enterprise 10K , 6500 to SunFire 25K SF6900 and the latest M9000 an MX00 Series (Fujitsu). Working as system administrator and cluster I needed to aknowlege SAN and Storage...so I started to work

with switch Brocade and StorageTek storage  (acquired by SUN )  and I 've skill on SE3510 SE6140 SE6180 SE6540 and a little with HDS 99xx.

I'm working for Sun also in Spain and Portugal , because my company have also an office in Madrid and was Sun Spain parthner!

After the acquisition of Sun bye Oracle , the work fell and my company ask me to join into new skill work. I'm working with VMware ESX  , Linux and

IBM AIX and IBM HACMP  ( i follow official course in IBM ) and then now we cooperate with EMC. Starting with my bases skill in Storage Area Network and my great skill in system administrator in 6 month  I got this two certification E20-001 (emc associate ) and E20-335 ( Symmetrix Implementation Specialist).

I've have many experiance of data migration , specially host base ( VXVM or LVM )  but also Open Replicator

This is my information :

- Diego Giovanelli

- Working in Milano Italy

- Senior System Engineer on Solaris and Sun Cluster

- System Engineer on Linux , VMware and AIX

- Storage Administrator

This is my certification

Sun Cluster Installer and administration Certified

VMware  VCP-310

E20-001  ( ISM EMC associate )

E20-335  (Symmetrix Implementation Specialist )

dgiovanelli@sorint.it   or diegogiova@gmail.com

Bye Diego

hi i read u r tips and cleared ISM recently and i m pursuing MCA final year i m interested in EMC i want to know what are the chances of recruitment for 2012 please help me friend i know that i m average in programming but i m very interested in storage and i think i got an edge by doing ISM is that ok or shall i go for other certifications....