Designing for Scale
I love TED talks. I am not sure if there is a better source for 10 minute chunks of information and inspiration. As I do a fair share of presenting in my career – never on the scale of a Ted talk...
View ArticleVSPEX BLUE Ushers In Radically Simpler IT
Notice how the pace of business seems to accelerate every year putting IT departments at a disadvantage as they try to keep up with the demands for additional compute, storage, performance and feature...
View ArticleInside Flash Episode #19: VMWare Partner Exchange 2015 (NDA Required)
VMWare Partner Exchange is the go to conference for VMWare Partners; it’s also the perfect opportunity for EMC to update our partner community on the latest product roadmaps and strategies. In fact,...
View ArticleBreaking Out of the Squeeze with Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
To balance the seemingly incompatible needs of “keeping the lights on” and investing in the future, IT leaders are driving changes in how their organizations consume IT. They are demanding solutions...
View ArticleVSPEX Blue – Evo:Rail and more!
Today EMC announced it’s latest product, the VSPEX Blue! This 2U hyper converged offering is based of of VMware’s EVO:Rail platform that was announced last year. While most everyone reading this is...
View ArticleWant To Build A Data Science Team? EMC Offers a Holistic Approach
Many of our customers invest in big data solutions to target their sales prospects better, explore advanced medical research, and make their internal processes more efficient. The biggest obstacle to...
View ArticleInside Flash Episode #19: VMWare Partner Exchange 2015 (NDA Required)
VMWare Partner Exchange is the go to conference for VMWare Partners; it’s also the perfect opportunity for EMC to update our partner community on the latest product roadmaps and strategies. In fact,...
View ArticleDon’t Mess With Naptime
Long story short an electrical malfunction caused my neighbor’s house to catch fire over the weekend. Fortunately nobody was hurt but things certainly could have turned out much worse for a few scary...
View ArticleImplementing Adaboost on MPP for Big Data Analytics
It is an exciting time to be working on machine learning applications, due to the ubiquitous availability of data, ease of access to large-scale distributed computing platforms, and the availability...
View ArticleCollaboration Never Stops – The Future of Document Management – Part 5
It’s not much help to recognize the massive growth in information or the far-reaching impact of privacy legislation unless you consider how information will be used by future generations. Already,...
View ArticleVSPEX: Blue - Enterprise Grade Hyper Converged Infrastructure Appliance
Today EMC released our Hyper Converged Infrastructure Appliance (HCIA) based on VMware EVO: Rail. In a previous post I described the different Converged Infrastructure models that I saw emerging in...
View ArticlePivotal Philanthropy Helps Viral Video Game With A Strong Message On To The...
Last summer, two members of the Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program produced a viral, headline-grabbing video game called Tampon Run and created quite a buzz. Through the Pivotal for Good (P4G)...
View ArticleBackups: How Many Do You Need?
It’s not a new story and one you would have heard many times before. We just cannot stop creating new data. Data growth along with diversification of storage methods is not helping either. The volume...
View ArticleSecure Crypto: Survival of the Strong
Not all TLS cipher suites are made equal. Some cipher suites use weaker algorithms and others don’t provide independent handshake security. The cipher suites to avoid include those using: SHA-1 as the...
View ArticleThe Patching Nightmare
At a recent event in London a member of the audience stated that 99.9% of companies are struggling with patching and therefore the bigger security strategy gets left behind. Whilst there were some at...
View ArticleWhat IT Taught Me About Buying a Car
Keith Waryas Note: this blog is part of the ViPR how-to video series. Click the image below to explore additional resources and step-by-step videos from our experts. Trust. It’s hard to win, easy to...
View ArticleSpringboard into a Different Kind of Worldwide Web
One of the benefits of being a big, global organization is that as your enterprise grows, you can create market-changing opportunities, and you can work on truly global opportunities. But some...
View ArticleAre Your Processes Holding You Back from Big Data Benefits?
If your big data efforts are flagging, one problem may be that your processes are in the way, according to a recent article by McKinsey “In more established organizations, management-approval...
View ArticleAnnouncing NetWorker 8.2 SP1 – Not Your Mother’s Service Pack!
NetWorker 8.2 was announced in April 2014 with many exciting new features focused on EMC’s commitment to delivering a data protection solution that includes a central catalog for various protection...
View ArticleThe World is a Global Fraud Stage, Mobile e-Commerce is the Next Big Act
Sir Isaac Newton discovered in his Law of Conservation of Energy that energy cannot be destroyed, merely transformed from one form to another. The parallels to fraud in the online world run along...
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