Grr make your pick. Do you want Open Everything or Agility?
Sometimes, customers and partners frustrate me. There, I said it :-) I’m sure the reverse is also true – I bet I/we can be frustrating too :-) People… “Choice” is good. But “Choice” can also be the...
View ArticleData Lakes: Store Everything. Analyze Anything. Build What You Need.
You can look at business data lakes three ways: The first is as one place to put all the data you may want to use. That includes structured data drawn from traditional databases and unstructured data...
View ArticleKnow Where You Are: Innovation and Technology Communities
In a previous post I discussed the “data gathering” aspect of an innovation strategy named "Know Where You Are". I recommended the creation of a Portfolio Intelligence team to gather business data....
View ArticleBig Strata
David Dietrich The Javits Center After returning from Strata + Hadoop World in New York, I am struck with how mainstream Big Data has become. No longer the playground of only a few quiet people with...
View ArticleElectric Gadgets, Space Junk and Cyber Security: Purging Obsolete IT Controls
By Doug Graham — Senior Director, Global Security Office, EMC IT As we in IT security scramble to put more and better controls in place to combat a changing array of cyber threats, we as an industry...
View ArticleThe Most Successful Joint Venture in IT History
That’s how we, as co-Chairs of the VCE Board, think about VCE. We may be a bit biased, but we’re confident many others agree based on the tremendous success of VCE’s Vblock converged infrastructure...
View ArticleGetting Converged Infrastructure Right
David Buffo Converged infrastructure platforms have enjoyed great popularity in the last several years. IT organizations realize that leveraging the tight integration of servers, storage and networks...
View ArticleExploring the Idea of Community Architect
Mark Browne I have been doing a fair bit of research and honestly a fair bit of reflection. In fact this blog post is a long time in coming. I warn you now, this will be a long enough post, with...
View ArticleEMC Secure Remote Services – My Personal Journey
Ben Chused I don’t typically blog about my day-to-day role within the EMC Global Services Marketing organization, but we had some big customer service news last month and I felt inclined to share…...
View ArticleThe Fine Line Between “Extreme” Personalization And Creeper
Bill Schmarzo I frequently hear questions of concern about the use of big data and the invasion of one’s privacy. And there is no doubt that data science and “extreme personalization” requires an...
View ArticleMurder by Internet – coming here soon
IoT (Internet of things) is the new buzzword and everyone is talking about it, from connected vending machines, parking meters, fridges, cars…you get the picture. According to Gartner by the year 2020...
View ArticleMy 2 cents on the VCE Announcement.
I’m really excited about having VCE part of EMC. We will take the Converged Infrastructure market that we created together with Cisco, and accelerate it to a whole new level. Now – listening to a lot...
View ArticleScaleIO 1.30 – VMware vSphere Installation – Part II – SVM Setup
Keep in mind that, other than the new features added in ScaleIO 1.30, it still operates in the same fashion on vSphere. Each host still has a ScaleIO VM (SVM) that leverages vmdks, residing on local...
View ArticleAre Your IT Consumers Eager to See What’s in Your Catalog?
David Buffo The busy holiday shopping season is just around the corner, and retailers are eagerly anticipating the rush of commerce. The shopping days between Thanksgiving and Christmas account for...
View ArticleHow To Design a REST API
There is a lot of interest in REST APIs these days. Unfortunately, most APIs I see are not very mature. In this post I’d like to share my approach to designing REST APIs: Understand the problem domain...
View ArticleEnterprise Hybrid Cloud Applied to SAP, and HINT: TOMORROW.
In partnership with VMware, we keep cranking on the Enterprise Hybrid Cloud (EHC). This is the tag we apply to “Self-Service IaaS solutions with on-premises and off-premises elements”. We started...
View ArticleBig Data MBA: Creating a Living Document: 3Q-2014
Bill Schmarzo I continue to update the mapping of recent blogs to chapters in my book “Big Data: Understanding How Data Powers Business.” I want to maintain the book is a living document where I can...
View ArticleProtect and Recover: Everything Partners Need to Know about EMC's Latest Data...
If you’ve been around the technology industry for a while, you know that it is a steady stream of product launches. Vendors use product launches as an opportunity to get attention in the market from...
View ArticleEMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud: ITaaS Out of the Box
Jay Snyder With the launch of EMC’s Enterprise Hybrid Cloud (EHC) solution and services today, it makes me think back to how this all started. We’ve been asked for the past couple of years, through...
View ArticleKnow Where You Are: Innovation and Data gathering
In a previous post I introduced the “data gathering” aspect of a four-point innovation strategy to Know Where You Are. I discusses the creation of a Portfolio Intelligence team to gather business...
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