Cloud Driving the Economy
From tech startups (like mine) to Fortune 200 tech companies (like mine) alike, cloud has been a global engine of growth as well as as an enabler of rapid innovation. And even through the recent...
View ArticleA Beginner’s Guide to EMC and Microsoft Management
Earlier this week I blogged about all of the great Microsoft Virtualization and Management integration that EMC has been developing and that will be showcased during Microsoft's Management Summit...
View ArticleHow The Data Center Is Becoming Software-Defined
How pervasive is the concept of software-defined? In mid 2012 VMware CTO Steve Herrod and others began to articulate the concept of the software-defined data center. This concept was just as often...
View ArticleSoftware Defined Storage; just some random thoughts
I have been reading many articles over the last weeks on Software Defined Storage and wrote an article on this topic a couple of weeks ago. While reading up one thing that stood out was that every...
View ArticleInnovation Roadmap 2013: Push the Improve Button
Earlier this week the Chief Technology Officer of EMC, John Roese, launched his own version of what used to be called the Innovation Showcase: The 2013 Innovation Roadmap. The Innovation Showcase...
View ArticleEscaping The Channel Partner Vise
One of the more interesting things I've done recently was speak with the executive leadership of one of EMC's valued channel partners. They were going through a strategic planning cycle, and wanted an...
View ArticleNYSE Technologies and The Community Cloud
Almost two years ago, I wrote about how NYSE Technologies was launching a "community cloud" targeted at the financial trading community. At the time, it was a brave experiment, with powerful ideas...
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View ArticleA Robot Gave Me My Job!
“A robot took my job!” The familiar refrain gets at a long-running cultural anxiety that machines will render human workers redundant. “My father had worked for the same firm for twelve years,” begins...
View ArticleOpenstack Grizzly is out, with extra awesomesauce and bonus VMware and EMC...
On April 4th, Openstack 2013.1 was released – better known as “Grizzly”, and is the 7th Openstack release. The best place to get a quick glance (haha – glance is the image service in Openstack) at...
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View ArticleTintri releases version 2.0 – Replication added!
I have never made it a secret that I am a fan of Tintri. I just love their view on storage systems and the way they decided to solve specific problems. When I was in Palo Alto last month I had the...
View ArticleHow Data Analytics Saved $300M In Health Care Costs
Delia Vetter, Senior Director, Benefits and Programs How can employers mitigate the escalating costs of health care while providing a benefits program that meets the needs of their employees? By...
View ArticleUpgrading VMware View Composer
So far we’ve been going down the journey of updating a VMware View 5.1 environment to VMware Horizon View 5.2. Let’s review what we’ve done so far: We’ve updated our Connection Broker We’ve added...
View ArticleEMC’s Proven Infrastructure Presents New Opportunities for SMBs and VARs
A number of organizations are benefitting from virtualization, including small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). However, many SMBs face challenges with virtualization and implementation of their...
View ArticleMy Thoughts On HP's Moonshot
This morning, HP took a bold step forward with formally unveiling their "Project Moonshot" -- a new class of servers targeted at (apparently) hyperscale web server farms. While I'm certainly a big fan...
View ArticleWhat is the real thing stopping Cloud in the Enterprise? - RANT.
I firmly stand by “EMC SE Manifesto Principle #5”: We are positive force. Meaning “We think of the customer, our ‘tribe’, ONE EMC, the community at large, the world - and never go negative on the bad...
View ArticleVPLEX Use Cases – Animated Descriptions
We have been increasing the number of animated VPLEX Use Cases, which now include:- VPLEX for VMware VPLEX for Oracle VPLEX for Continuous Data Availability VPLEX for Migrations You can find more...
View ArticleGuaranteeing availability through admission control, chip in!
I have been having these discussions with our engineering teams for the last year around guaranteed restarts of virtual machines in a cluster. In the current shape / form we use Admission Control to...
View ArticleAn important ETA for VMAX customers using vSphere
EMC Technical Advisory (or “ETA”) are notices to customers of important fixes or updates. Some are more important than others. If you go to http://support.emc.com, you can get all the ETAs for your...
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