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EMC Wins Hybrid Cloud Trifecta
Acquisitions can be a bit like buses…you wait around for an hour and then, suddenly, three show up at once. That’s what happened today at EMC. We announced a three-acquisition convoy to accelerate...
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Why Spanning? Why now?
Again, like Maginatics, more patently obvious than Cloudscaling. The space of “Cloud Backup” is very interesting (and we have a lot of experience – remember, Mozy is an EMC company!) People...
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Why Maginatics, why now?
Answer for this one is simpler than the Cloudscaling one. We’ve been watching the space of “storage things that use object storage” closely for a while. What’s clear is that it’s very hard to make...
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Why Cloudscaling, and why now?
Welcome to my Cloudscaling brothers and sisters? So – this post will be about “Why Cloudscaling” and “Why now?”. Clearly – there is a real and growing model where customers are looking at different...
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Cloud Trifecta!
Big news today – Cloudscaling, Maginatics, Spanning join the EMC family. What’s the story behind each of these? I’m going to hit each of these in a seperate post to avoid making you all suffer more...
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An IT Epiphany: Getting Back to Basics and Defining Our “Wins”
By Jon Peirce — Senior Vice President, EMC IT Sometimes simple steps can lead to substantial insights in the midst of transition. One such instance proved extremely valuable in our Redefine IT effort....
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DevOps: Transforming Application Delivery
Bart Driscoll DevOps is disruptive; it is a framework for transforming application delivery within an organization. DevOps targets the people, processes, and tools associated with application...
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New Frontier of Managed Services Innovation
Peter Lacoste Recently I was asked to deliver a keynote at the 2014 TSW Services Transformation conference and I wanted to share my experience and keep the discussion going by providing a short recap...
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Everything OpenStack at EMC, in Paris.
I’ll admit to being somewhat amused by the OpenStack Summit planning call earlier today (At time of writing) because it’s possibly the smallest EMC event presence I’ve seen in a while. And that’s a...
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Is Your “Sneakernet” Protected?
Lady Backup may be showing her American roots here, but I can’t find a British alternative expression to “sneakernet…” Not all of my UK colleagues know what this means, so simply put “sneakernet”...
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Big Data MBA Class Learnings
Bill Schmarzo Professor Mouwafac Sidaoui and I recently completed delivery of our Big Data MBA course at the University of San Francisco, titled “Turning Big Data into Business Power.” The students...
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Driving Application Transformation with EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud
Scott Bils New cloud infrastructure models are creating attractive opportunities to transform and modernize the application portfolio. Public cloud IaaS services enable on-demand provisioning of...
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What Makes EMC’s Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Different?
Matt Liebowitz EMC announced a series of powerful hybrid cloud solutions and services this week built up on our previously discussed EMC Hybrid Cloud solution. As a refresher, the EMC Enterprise...
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Agile for a Reason
Over the last year or so, I’ve had the opportunity to speak to a variety of groups and organizations. The focus has been on just ‘how’ we, at EMC, have piloted, rolled out, refined and ultimately...
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How To Return Error Details From REST APIs
The HTTP protocol uses status codes to return error information. This facility, while extremely useful, is too limited for many use cases. So how do we return more detailed information? There are...
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Intention and Intuition – Cyber Security
I was in Istanbul recently, speaking at the IEEE ISGT Europe (see my earlier blog on the SPARKS site for a discussion of the May IEEE ISGT in Croatia). In addition to speaking on a panel about Smart...
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Which Apps Should I Transform?
David Buffo The IT world is awash in headlines about transforming IT, Cloud, IT-as-a-Service, adopting Hybrid Cloud, increasing agility, and modernizing applications, to list a few. IDC just published...
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Today’s CIO Agenda
Last week, I attended Evanta’s CIO Executive Summit in New York, where I spent time with CIOs from some of the largest enterprises in business. This is an exciting time to be a CIO, and a risky one,...
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Cooler than Cucumber – EMC Hybrid Cloud is Foundational for App Dev
Bart Driscoll Most app dev teams will respond to the EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud release with a comment like, “’bout time” assuming it even makes a blip on their radar. This isn’t or shouldn’t be...
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Healthier IT Working – Wrist Support: Part 1
I’ve been suffering from tendonitis for a few months now, a combination of lifting our new 12kg addition to the family (Baby TechHead), and also the fact that I wasn’t able to be particularly active...
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