Pioneering Women Speak Out and Inspire at EMC World
There are so many remarkable women who have played crucial roles in defining the world we live in and have contributed to making it a better place, whether through politics, science, medicine, sports...
View ArticleEnterprise Platform as a Service Explained: Our Experts Take a Deeper Dive
EMC IT’s new Enterprise-Platform-as-a-Service offering brings automation, agility and efficiency by providing users with an on-demand IT landscape on which to develop their applications. For a closer...
View ArticleEMC OEM Solutions at EMC World 2014
Anton Prenneis Technology Evangelist EMC OEM Solutions On location at EMC World 2014, Anton Prenneis gives an overview of EMC’s OEM business. Topics include the expansion of EMC OEM Solutions across...
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 ArticleEMC Customers Can Choose Any Cloud
Our leaders have time and time again emphasized a core aspect of the EMC Federation strategy and functioning model: “(we) offer best-of-breed, integrated, technology while preserving customers’...
View ArticleWhy Marketing Enablement for the Channel?
In my last blog The Evolution of Enablement, I discussed the role of marketing enablement as a hand-in-glove function to sales and technical enablement. Today I want to explore what marketing...
View ArticleWhat is SDS? battle card/decoder
Perhaps an (intentionally) inflammatory title – this topic rages as furiously as the SDN battles, and the AFA wars… Hey at least things aren’t boring :-) I still think we could have better things to...
View ArticleSummer Gift Part 1 Project Mercury Beta Open!
As part of celebrating summer here in the northern hemisphere, I’ve got two pieces of great news… The first one is that the Beta for “Project Mercury” is now open! What is “Project Mercury”? Well –...
View ArticleMacBook Air (Mid 2013) Battery Drain – Firmware Update
Here’s an important firmware update (SMC 2.0) for all of you MacBook Air (Mid 2013 model) users out there. Apple have just released an SMC firmware update (2.0) for all mid 2013 MacBook Air models...
View ArticleThe Value of Data: Google Gets It!
Google has officially invaded my local Starbucks hang out. The Google “Free WiFi” splash page below (Figure 1) greeted me the other day when I opened my browser and got ready to enjoy my venti,...
View ArticleThe EMC IT Transformation Journey: Making Big Bets and Taking Bold Action
By Jon Peirce — Senior Vice President, EMC IT A big mistake companies make as they work to transform their IT operation is thinking that they can achieve that change without making some bold, big...
View ArticleSummer Gift Part 2 10 VNXe arrays free to play with for volunteers!
Ok – here’s awesome surprise #2 (and there is a 3rd coming). I have ten, count ‘em, 10 (!) shiny new VNXe 3200s for people to play with! Well – actually I have 8 :-) Christian Mohn triggered this...
View ArticleHow to Start Down The Road Towards Database as a Service
When we think of the traditional problems that cloud computing solves – decreased deployment times, providing self-service to users, among many others, we might not immediately think about how the...
View ArticleSummer Gift Part 3 XtremIO vCOPS integration
This was an internal thread too good to not share. Plus, there’s a huge (and growing like crazy) number of EMC XtremIO AFA customers who will love it! P.S. – ViPR automation integration with XtremIO...
View ArticleHow Can Cloud Help My Database?
When we think of the traditional problems that cloud computing solves – decreased deployment times, providing self-service to users, among many others, we might not immediately think about how the...
View ArticleVMware vSphere 5.5 U1 Hardening Guide Available
The VMware vSphere Hardening Guide is something you should always be familiar with and keep stashed away in your vArmory of useful things. This MS Excel based document/guide contains valuable...
View ArticleEMC Privacy Index Reveals Divergent Views on Internet Privacy Worldwide
Internet privacy has been a constant topic in the news for months, yet, until now, relatively little attention has focused on how consumers really feel about the issue. Taking the pulse of 15,000...
View ArticleWow. Thats a lot of oomph from commodity hardware.
I’ll keep saying it – I think the potentially most disruptive technology in the whole EMC Federation when it comes to the world of “persistence” is ScaleIO. We are busily disrupting ourselves on many...
View Article3 Tips for Evolving BSS/OSS Operations for the 3rd Platform
We are at the very beginning stages of a new era of dramatic improvement in the way communications services providers (CSPs) are using information technology to support creation and delivery of...
View Articlecharity:water…We Unlocked a Well at SAPPHIRENOW!!
Hello Everyone, This is my final installment of the triology of charity:water and SapphireNOW experience. I do apologize for taking a week to report in, many of you know the results at this point. I...
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