Hitachi Vantara, Ramanujan College collaborate to Implement Online Learning Management System on private cloud

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2 mins readUpdated on Nov 26, 2022 09:21 IST

Hitachi Vantara has developed the dynamic data infrastructure for Ramanujan College that runs an online learning management system to train 150,000 faculty members and research scholars at universities across India.

Ramanujan College (founded in 1958 and a constituent college of the University of Delhi) has collaborated with Hitachi Vantara, the modern infrastructure, data management and digital solutions subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. To train faculty members and research scholars. Hitachi Vantara has developed the dynamic data infrastructure for Ramanujan College that runs an online learning management system to train 150,000 faculty members and research scholars at universities across India. The college’s new private cloud infrastructure also supports its ground-breaking R&D work and develops compelling cloud reference architectures for government, industry, and educational institutions.

Previously, much of the R&D work by Ramanujan College was hosted in the public cloud. However, the cost was increasing due to running performance-intensive applications for 5G communications, blockchain and a learning management system for over 150,000 participants. This phenomenon is being witnessed in enterprises across industries where companies are deploying more cloud services resulting in ungoverned on-demand consumption, and unexpected operational costs eating up promised cost savings.

Q:   Is Ramanujan College, University of Delhi a good college?

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It changed its status to an independent morning college in 2013, and since then, it has experienced tremendous growth. Ramanujan College boasts an excellent study atmosphere and a terrific campus life. It received a Grade A+ with a GPA of 3.71 from NAAC. With an aggregate score of 54.68, it is also placed 53rd in the college category by the National Institute Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2021.

Here are some distinguishing characteristics that set Ramanujan apart from the crowd:

  1. Excellent Location: The college is conveniently located in Kalkaji, adjacent to restaurants like Epicuria, McD, Pizza Hut, Domino's, and others.

  2. Societies: JAZBA, NSS, DNA, Shivranjani, Tark, TATVA, and other societies for students to participate.

  3. Experienced Faculty: For Commerce students they have an excellent faculty

  4. Infrastructure: The building's infrastructure distinguishes it from all other DU colleges. The college has the best infrastructure in DU, with all modern amenities. 

  5. Crowd: The college environment is always pumped up with some event, campaign, rally, or other activity that inspires students. 

Q:   Is the degree offered by Ramanujan College valid?

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Hi Anita, The degree offered by college is valid throughout the world as it comes under the central university of Delhi. The college have NAAC rating 3.71 which is the highest for a Delhi university college. Hence, the degree is valid.

Q:   Is it worth doing Certificate courses from Ramanujan College?

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Hi Anita, If you want to pursue a Certificate course from Ramanujan college it is worth doing as great mentors are available here. The college officially do not offer any Certificate course but the programs organise certification courses and the mentors of those are highly qualified and experts in there fields. Also, the price asked for the certification courses are very lower than the market rates. Hence, its worth pursuing them from Ramanujan college.

In fact, IDC predicts that in India, by 2024, 30% of organizations using cloud services will establish a dedicated FinOps function to automate policy-driven observability and optimization of cloud resources to maximize value.

Vipin Rathi, Assistant Professor at Ramanujan College, Chair of the Hyperledger Telecom SIG and Director of the Open Infrastructure Foundation, explains, “When you need to scale up to larger servers with multiple processors in the public cloud, the costs quickly become significant. The private cloud infrastructure opens huge potential for innovation. By partnering with Hitachi Vantara to build next-generation cloud platforms on open-source software, we can help India lead the world and take control of its own technological future.”

The solution includes a Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) G350 array as the foundation for its private cloud, with three Hitachi Advanced Server DS7060 compute nodes to run the cloud software stack and test and production environments for various databases and applications. The DS7060 servers also offered a key technical advantage: each node can scale up to 16 Intel Xeon Platinum processors—ideal for supporting very demanding workloads such as large-scale applications.

Q:   How is Ramanujan College for a Vocational Courses?

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Hi Sandhya, If you want to pursue any vocational course from Ramanujan college here the college offers only two vocational courses I. e. B.Voc banking and finance and B.Voc software development. The courses are being taught by Ph.D. specialised teachers. If you want to join you can learn alot. Also the placements for vocational course are very good.

Q:   Is Ramanujan College good for middle-class people?

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Hi Sandhya, Ramanujan college being a college of Delhi university is very pocket friendly college for students to pursue an undergraduate course as the fee for the courses here ranges form 16500 to 46500 per year depending on the courses which is bare minimum for a course from such a reputed college.

Q:   What is the population of students at Ramanujan College?

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Hi Sandhya, The population of college is per batch is around 2000 students. If to take a rough idea per class have around 50 students each. So there are alot students studying at college.

Q:   Are there cultural events organised for students at Ramanujan College?

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Hi Sandhya, There are a lot of cultural events organised at the college premises. The cultural events scale depends but almost every month an event is organised. A few events that were organised were diwali mela, josh ( annual fest) etc.

One of the research areas of the college incudes software-defined networking to support the Indian government’s push to expand 5G internet access into rural areas. Experiments with the open-source Magma Core platform are already running on Ramanujan College’s private cloud and providing valuable data for the 5G rollout. By adopting the private cloud approach, Ramanujan College pioneered open cloud solutions for education, digital government and 5G. This infrastructure development also freed up $60,000 per year for the college to allocate for research and development by eliminating monthly public cloud costs.

Hemant Tiwari, Managing Director, India & SAARC, Hitachi Vantara, commented, “Education is crucial to India’s rapid development and we are delighted by the positive outcomes brought by our solutions. Now Ramanujan College has agile and flexible infrastructure to support its ground-breaking R&D work and develop compelling cloud reference architectures for government, industry, and educational institutions. Their new learning management system provides online courses for more than 150,000 faculty members and research scholars at universities across India.”

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