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EMC 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’...
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Why 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...
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MacBook 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...
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VMware 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...
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EMC Storage Simulators for your lab – Free!
Fancy running your own EMC Isilon, VNX, VNXe or ViPR installation in your own lab environment, to try out, trial and/or educate yourself with? If so, you’ve come to the right post! Here I provide...
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Challenging the Paradoxes of Online Privacy
EMC has just announced the results of research into the attitudes of consumers around the world towards privacy, particularly in terms of the often conflicting requirements of online convenience and...
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The Data Protection Conundrum
So hands up who protects their personal data? It’s that age-old problem, very few of us consider data protection until it’s too late and we find we have lost data. So let’s consider your options:...
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The Intelligence Community Runs on (Shared) Data
By John M. Custer, Director, Federal Missions and Programs, EMC The intelligence community (IC) runs on data – from information on cyber threats to details on emerging political unrest. National...
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Trust @ Virtual EMCworld 2014
This year, for the first time, the content of EMCworld is being made available online – not just to EMCworld attendees, but to everyone. From keynotes to sessions to panoramic tours, Virtual EMC World...
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Behavior-Driven RESTful APIs
In the RESTBucks example, the authors present a useful state diagram that describes the actions a client can perform against the service. Where does such an application state diagram come from? Well,...
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Cost-Efficient Application Placement
I've been writing a series of posts on EMC's Adaptivity technology. In my last post I discussed the concept of projecting applications onto different elements of the business value chain (BVC). For...
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Data Science as a Service: Driving Agility and Innovation to the ITaaS Model
By Dr. Alon Grubshtein, Principal Data Scientist — EMC IT This is a great time to be a data scientist –a bit like rock stars with all the fans always trying to catch some private time with us. While...
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The Data Lake is Real and Open for Business
The market and folks on blog sites are talking about Big Data, internet of things, and how these factors are redefining business and IT. Sometimes it can feel like an academic discussion or a...
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What Universities Can Learn from Big Data – Higher Education Analytics
There is a growing interest by institutions of higher education to take advantage of Big Data to improve student performance and raise teacher/professor effectiveness, while reducing administrative...
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A Missing Link In IT Transformation: Executive Governance
In my recent blog posts, I’ve explored various components of enterprise IT transformation—from drivers, barriers, and process retooling to evolving personnel skill requirements, evaluating cloud...
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Predictive IT and Moving from a BI to a Data Science Role
I recently participated in a Predictive IT panel discussion at EMC World. Our panel was moderated by Bill Schmarzo (@schmarzo), part of EMC’s Big Data consulting practice. The other panelists were:...
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Celebrating Three Years: InFocus Looks Back At Top Blogs
The technology industry has soared in the last three years, and InFocus has brought its enterprise IT audience along for the amazing ride each step of the way Since the blog’s launch back on July 1,...
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EMC Storage Simulators for your lab – Free!
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Demanding More from Data Protection
Business expectations for data protection have evolved more rapidly than IT can respond. Initially, CIOs sought to lower operational and capital cost and risk by covering the protection continuum...
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Next gen vSphere beta, and the scoop on EMC and VVOL support
Happy July 4th to my American brothers and sisters! Had a great Canada Day (July 1st) earlier this week… Saw some traffic and inbound customer requests around VVOLs earlier this week – and I wanted to...
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