Solving the HANA Puzzle: Optimized Infrastructure Choices
I was recently meeting with SAP customers while traveling throughSingapore and Bangkok. What I found on these travels was a growing market with unique challenges, and some brilliantly spicy food. I...
View ArticleVMware KB Digest – New KB articles published for week ending 9/5/15
In our effort to provide our viewers with up to the minute information on VMware related news and topics, we’re posting the following list of new KB Entries for this week, direct from VMware Support....
View ArticleWinning the Content Delivery Race With Innovative Storage Solutions
2014 is a year where we saw an organizational shift—where production companies moved towards being ‘always on’ to serve the connected customer. With the proliferation of mobile devices and content...
View ArticleCheck out the Isilon multiprotocol series
There’s a new series in town: the Multiprotocol Concepts series on the EMC Community Network (ECN) Isilon community. If you’ve ever wondered how OneFS handles multiprotocol data access or even what it...
View Article’80s Flashback: The Good Old Days & Getting Hip with InfoArchive
In the 80’s I went through Grammar School, University and listened to some great music. In a few short weeks, I will get to relive my glory days, or at least a small part of them again, as I go …...
View ArticleTop 10 Business Transformation Best Practices
Laddie Suk Why is it so hard to transform a business area with IT as a catalyst? In this blog, I’ll take a look at the top challenges to an IT-led business transformation – and the top 10 ways to be...
View ArticleThe 24-hour Work Day: The New Reality
How many devices do you use for work today? And how many of those are your own personal gadgets? I am sure you will not be surprised to know that 43% of us use at least three, and a significant …...
View ArticleAll About the New GemFire For Pivotal Cloud Foundry Service
We look at the new GemFire for Pivotal Cloud Foundry Service that is now available and delivering one of the market’s most powerful in memory technologies on Pivotal’s open Cloud Native application...
View ArticleWhat Customers Want from EMC and VMware
There has been so much speculation about EMC/VMware lately and I continue to be surprised by how much the speculation feeds itself. One reporter speculates, and then another reports the first as a...
View ArticleStudy reveals: Financial Services industry suffering from “Clandestine Cloud...
The financial services sector is in the midst of a transformative era. This highly competitive industry is under constant pressure to deliver new products to win over customers who expect information...
View ArticleIs Cloud the ‘Magic Bullet’ for Legacy Systems in Public Sector?
Two recent surveys raise some very interesting findings relating to the public sector’s drive to enable more agile ICT and to deliver better public services that are digital-by-default. Our research...
View ArticleGo Big Data Lake or Go Home
Frank Coleman Remember, when it comes to Data Lakes, I’m not just an EMC employee I’m also a client. I was recently interviewed about analytics at EMC and was asked what I would say to other companies...
View ArticleEMC Positioned as a Leader in the 2015 Forrester Wave for Business Content...
In August, EMC was one of three vendors cited as perennial leaders in a Forrester report: The Forrester Wave™: ECM Business Content Services, Q3 2015. I was asked last week how I felt about the...
View ArticleGot 99 Problems? But Salesforce Data Loss Ain’t One.
The largest SaaS conference in the world - Dreamforce - is about to fire up next Monday, where Salesforce admins and developers learn how to keep their 99 problems in check...and since Spanning is in...
View ArticleState Transportation Departments, It’s Time to Connect the DOTs
Departments of Transportation (DOTs) were one of the first state agencies to move to electronic storage and retrieval of documents, images, and engineering drawings. This move from paper to electronic...
View ArticleBig Data Insights in Healthcare, Part I: Great Ideas Transcend Time
Louis Frolio Civil War: Field Telegraph Battery Wagon Timing is everything—as Abraham Lincoln learned 153 years ago. Thirty-nine days after becoming the 16th President of the United States of America,...
View ArticleDisruption Day: Bimodal IT Revelations
Dinko Eror We’ve talked a great deal about the ‘third platform’ of IT with our customers, an aspirational point in our infrastructure when we have the ability to deliver hyper-scale, web-powered...
View ArticleWindows, Docker, and Buildpack Apps in One Platform
Pivotal Cloud Foundry now runs Windows, Docker, and Buildpack apps on a single, integrated platform! By supporting these three types of apps, we believe this is the most comprehensive Cloud Native...
View ArticleDisruption Day: Bimodal Revelations
We’ve talked a great deal about the ‘third platform’ of IT with our customers, an aspirational point in our infrastructure when we have the ability to deliver hyper-scale, web-powered applications for...
View ArticleFine Tuning Pivotal HAWQ and EMC Isilon HDFS
To help our customers and partners, Pivotal’s Platform Engineering team has been testing all the common Pivotal HAWQ functionality used by customers with EMC Isilon as the HDFS layer. This post is not...
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