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Results are In: IDC names EMC #1 in Flash Markets
EMC continues to lead the pack. IDC’s latest report names EMC the leader in both all-flash and hybrid array market shares, listing EMC as #1 in several categories, including: 1H2014 Worldwide Hybrid...
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Chief Data Officer: The True Dean of Big Data?
Bill Schmarzo There’s a new sheriff in the big data storymap world (see Figure 1) and that’s the Chief Data Officer (CDO). While the CDO was just an idea just a few years ago, more and more...
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vSphere 5.5 & the Isilon NAS VAAI Plugin – Part 2 – v1.2
If you have vSphere 5.0/5.1 and have waited to upgrade to 5.5, at least in part because you have some Isilon NFS datastores, you wait is over. In case you missed it, an updated vSphere VAAI plugin for...
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Should You Care About One Bad Customer Review?
Dave Matson There’s a little seasonal hot dog stand in downtown Hopkinton, Massachusetts, home to EMC’s corporate headquarters and the start of the Boston Marathon. Snappy Dogs is owned and run by two...
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The Cloud-Integrated Future of Storage
Over the past several years, cloud storage has found a niche that traditional online storage arrays and archival media, like tape, do not address. Whether it’s for secondary data,...
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What’s the Best Predictor of Success With IT Transformation?
By Mike Koehler — Senior Vice President, EMC Global Services On the road to IT-as-a-Service, transforming your IT infrastructure and applications is the easy part, comparatively speaking, that is. The...
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Doing it for the Kids
We are a proud sponsor of the Dallas Margarita Society’s annual Margarita ball this year (http://www.dallasmargaritasociety.org/our-sponsors/sponsors-list/sponsors-2014/) benefiting the Dallas...
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Converged 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?...
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Windows Server 2003 End of Life – Part 2
Sam Cavaliere In my last post, we recapped the situation with Windows Server 2003, why you would want to engage with professionals for this task and an approach that identifies what your Windows...
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REST Messages And Data Transfer Objects
In Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, Martin Fowler defines a Data Transfer Object (DTO) as An object that carries data between processes in order to reduce the number of method calls....
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5 Application Transformation Trends to Watch in 2015
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...
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A Three-Pronged Approach to Enterprise Analytics
David Dietrich Over the past 3 years, I have spoken with hundreds of people at many large enterprises doing analytics of one kind or another. While some of these conversations focused on reporting and...
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Don’t Be a Dr. No in 2015
At the New Year, some people struggle to identify a bad habit that they want to end. Their co-workers, of course, instantly produce a long list of irritating behaviors. Similarly, every IT team’s...
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Does Your IT Organization Measure Up in Data Protection & Recovery?
David Edborg Volume-I in the Edborg-3-Step Process to Increase Confidence in Your Data Protection and Recovery Posture. EMC has just released its latest update to its Global Data Protection Index on...
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What is Business Resiliency?
Mat Allen This is the first blog in a series supporting EMC’s Business Resiliency eBook. Use the menu to the right to explore the rest of the series. In my last blog, I introduced the framework of a...
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Stardate: 5977.497.471 (Aka VMAX3 has a big day)
Congrats to the VMAX engineering team - for getting the Q4 VMAX3 Service Release out last week as committed! The specific release is 5977.497.471, which there was an internal thread where Jeremy...
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Cyber Attack – Nato playing war games
Last week Nato has held its largest ever war games from the Estonian city of Tartu. Security was so tight that Nato did not reveal the existence of the event for fear that the simulated hack would...
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IT Transformation –‘Invention is the Mother of Necessity’
Bart Driscoll I came across this twisted version of an old saying while reading on my travels to Santa Clara, CA for EMC’s first (hopefully annual) IT Transformation Week. As I met with customers to...
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The Basics of ‘What’&‘Why’ Object Storage
We have all had it drummed into use many times that the storage explosion is around content-based storage rather than traditional transactional storage, and although object storage has been around for...
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Creating Service Blueprints for Hybrid Cloud
Edward Newman In my last post, I talked about the four ways you can extend the EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud (EHC) Solution. The first is by publishing additional service blueprints to add new...
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