How to Transform Today’s Information Security Programs
Information security today can be likened to a classic American sandwich – the BLT. Simply, information security is not just about the technology. It’s also about the people that manage it and the...
View ArticleWater Is Everything: EMC Gives Back
Water is everything. Help us bring clean water to the thousands of people in Tigray, Ethiopia who need it most. In the past, many efforts to give back have been organized in different places...
View ArticleSPARKS Smart Grid Project Kicks Off
As I’ve mentioned in several earlier blogs, EMC is participating in a major EU-funded project on security for the SPARKS Smart Grid. The project has now officially started and we’ve put up a public...
View ArticleAnalysis Paralysis: Avoiding This With The EMC Leader 2020 Report.
You don’t have to speak to many CEOs to get a real and immediate sense of how challenging the market is for companies today with analysis paralysis. Many of them are seeing their markets disrupted by...
View ArticleBig Data is Big – and Security! – at EMCworld 2014.
I’m at EMCworld 2014 this week, coordinating the security-related sessions, meeting with customers and doing briefings. There hasn’t been time for me to go to any sessions other than the RSA ones,...
View ArticleLotus F1 Partnership With EMC To Achieve Global Formula 1 Domination.
“The partnership between EMC and Lotus F1 Team provides us the IT technology we need to become world champion.” Patrick Louis, CEO of Lotus F1 Team, on today’s announcement of a technology...
View ArticleEMC World Video- Evolving Customer Service for Third Platform
EMC World 2014′s theme was “Redefine”. During this event we talked with many customers who are redefining their IT infrastructures. The third platform means a proliferation of mobile devices with...
View ArticleSunsetting With InfoArchive
In a recent post I described how the Adaptivity and ADM toolsets can be used to classify enterprise applications and devise a strategy for modernization, enhancement, or application decommisioning...
View ArticleEMC IT for SAP HANA Innovation Award
After barely recovering from EMC World last week which was a ton of fun seeing announcements around DSSD, Virtual HANA and spending a lot of time talking with clients and partners about EMC’s Big Data...
View ArticleMonetizing the Internet of Everything at Cisco Live!
On Wednesday, May 21, between 10:00 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., I will be taking the stage at Cisco Live! as part of a keynote presentation titled “The Internet of Everything Ecosystem—Bringing IT and OT...
View ArticleBig Ideas, Big Technology: Redefine Your Business With OEM Solutions
Design4Data EMC OEM Solutions EMC is a dedicated global organization that understands the design driven business and your unique needs. We are able to deliver comprehensive programs and services...
View ArticleBest Practices for Virtualizing Your Oracle Database – Datastores
By Darryl Smith — Chief Database Architect, EMC IT First off, my apologies for delaying the last part of this four part blog for so long. I have been building a fully automated application platform...
View ArticleMicrosoft TechNet– Download & License Keys Reminder
As many of you know, Microsoft have decided to retire their TechNet software download and licensing subscription service, with the last day being the 31st August 2014. This is a real blow to the many...
View ArticleMathematical Mission Criticality
Labeling an application as Mission Critical can actually be a contentious activity. Ask any Line of Business for a listing of which apps are mission critical and it is highly likely that the answer...
View ArticleAuthenticity Drives Customer Service Excellence
― Howard Schultz, Starbucks Chairman and CEO, in Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time Authenticity is integral to the EMC brand and more specifically to EMC’s...
View ArticleApplication Transformation For The Cloud: Understanding Workloads
When C-level technology executives make decisions about cloud services, what drives their decision making? In a past blog, I noted that CIOs seem much more concerned about how to deliver IT as a...
View ArticleSave the Ugly Baby: the Pixar Success Story
A recent article from Fast Company titled “Your Ideas Are “Ugly Babies,” You Are Their Champion” talks about how Pixar nurtures creativity in the production of their many successful animation movies....
View ArticleEMC’s IT Transformation Journey: CIO Squeeze Play Shows Changing IT World
By Jon Peirce — Senior Vice President, EMC IT The reality is if your IT organization is working to transform into an IT-as-a-Service model to meet changing user demands, you didn’t just wander onto...
View ArticleLeaving Las Vegas
With wheels up and the neon lights of Las Vegas behind me, I reflected on two days spent with nearly 80 global CIOs at EMC’s fourth annual CIO Summit. Whether in our panel discussions, collaborative...
View ArticlexCP ranked as "Major Player" in IDC Study of Business Process Platforms
In its latest MarketScape on Worldwide Business Process Platforms Vendor Assessment, industry analyst IDC has ranked EMC as a “Major Player”. The study covers the 10 best Business Process Platforms...
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