Get Your IT Transformation In Gear
Barbara Robidoux IT executives are finding it more difficult to look outside their window and not wonder at what rate of speed their organization is keeping ahead – or lagging behind – the competition...
View ArticleConverged or “Build Your Own” VDI
Building out a VDI infrastructure requires great care and planning. Do you have enough performance from your storage infrastructure? Do you have a well defined performance objective for your users?...
View ArticleYou never forget your first long-term marketing plan
I remember my first long-term plan like it was yesterday. I worked at a small software company that asked me to build a solution for an all-in-one product (software/server/storage/etc.) for small...
View ArticleWhat’s the Best Predictor of Success with IT Transformation?
The softer elements are often the hardest to execute On the road to IT-as-a-Service, transforming your IT infrastructure and applications is the easy part, comparatively speaking, that is. The really...
View ArticleThree Ways To Become a Better Software Professional
The other day InfoQ posted an article on software craftsmanship. In my view, software craftsmanship is no more or less than being a good professional. Here are three main ways to become one. 1. See...
View ArticleUnderstanding and Mitigating Risk
In addition to being a presenter at the recent RSA EMEA Archer Summit, I was also able to sit in on several other sessions at the Summit, especially those on managing risk. It’s an area we’re working...
View ArticleWhat’s the Best Predictor of Success with IT Transformation?
Mike Koehler The softer elements are often the hardest to execute. On the road to IT-as-a-Service, transforming your IT infrastructure and applications is the easy part, comparatively speaking, that...
View ArticleDevOps Is The New Agile
In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn argues that science is not a steady accumulation of facts and theories, but rather an sequence of stable periods, interrupted by revolutions....
View ArticleIT Transformation: Banks must address IT risks
Almost lost amongst all the Media coverage of the Forex scandal and the record breaking fines the regulators have levied on the five banks involved was just a few column inches about another record...
View ArticleVideo Surveillance at the Edge
Did you know the video surveillance equipment market is expected to grow from about $15B in 2014 to nearly $26B in 2018? IHS Technology and many other analyst firms have the surveillance market...
View ArticleFirst EMC{code} #DevHigh5 Winners!
"Code Open, Deploy Everywhere" There's a lot of change happening here at EMC :-) We're investing heavily in innovating and developing next-generation infrastructure and converged infrastructure in...
View ArticleFive Application Transformation Trends to Watch
Scott Bils As CIOs lead their organizations through ITaaS transformation, many are finding that accelerating new application delivery, modernizing the application portfolio, and “consumerizing” the...
View ArticleEnterprise DevOps: Too Big To Fail?
Bart Driscoll For many enterprise IT shops, the “too big to fail” theory from the financial services sector is akin to how the often fragile application delivery pipeline is both perceived and...
View ArticleBe A Lasting Impression
Chris Gaudlip Last month I wrote about what not to do during an interview. The feedback I received was overwhelming, but not as I expected. The questions I received were related to what I have...
View ArticleGross Disruptions Per Year (GDP)
I would image most of you are very familiar with the term “Gross Domestic Product” or GDP. GDP is the market value of all final goods and services from a nation in a given year. When we look at the...
View ArticleThe Quest for Solid Ground
According to the EMC Global Data Protection Index, which surveyed 3,300 IT decision makers from mid-size to enterprise-class businesses across 24 countries, common data protection practices have left...
View ArticleAre Your Customers on Solid Ground to Protect Their Most Precious Digital...
It’s a simple question: Do your customers have an adequate data protection strategy? The answer, however, is probably not so straight forward. I would expect “sort of” is probably the most truthful...
View ArticleData Science – How Do I Turn Insight Into Value?
Frank Coleman In many of my past blogs I focused on building a data science team and getting started down the path of advanced analytics / Data Science. I originally used the slides below at EMC World...
View ArticleEMC and Open Source sitting in a tree
“If you don’t like change….you are going to like irrelevance even less” As I’ve mentioned in prior blog posts, that’s a phrase I use in just about every meeting, presentation and blog to describe...
View ArticleEmerging Innovation at DEMO
In a recent post I stated that any company should (a) understand their spend on innovation, and (b) devote a portion of their innovation spending on emerging technology. The picture below describes...
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