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Vblock + VISION + UIM
We’ve learnt a lot over the 3-ish years that Vblock has been on the market. The core “why” people choose to deploy on Vblock or Vblock-like consumption/support models is fundamentally about...
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Shaquille O’Neal vs. Proactive Customer Service: A Case Study
During my last blog I mentioned a presentation I delivered during EMC World 2013 comparing the proactive remote monitoring and repair tool EMC Secure Remote Support (ESRS) to the very dynamic...
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Defense Cyber Protection Partnership – The End of Cyber Crimes?
Many lessons can be learnt from the traditional Neighborhood Watch schemes which were first introduced in the UK in 1982 with one objective – To reduce crime. For those of you who follow my blog you...
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Get Inside the EMC/Microsoft Partnership
I’ve had the privilege of knowing and working with Sam Marraccini for about 10 years now and although he’s a Pittsburgh Penguins fan, he’s always been a great guy to hang out with and a prolific...
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Application Workload Innovation
In my last post I introduced the concept of application workload evolution. As software applications become increasingly complex, they drive innovation from the underlying IT infrastructure that has...
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The Federal March to the Cloud Continues, Despite Challenges
By Kyle Keller, Cloud Business Director, EMC Federal Last week I had the pleasure of participating in an event hosted by the Information Technology and Innovation Forum (ITIF) on Capitol Hill, focused...
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Business School Lessons From Evolutionary Biology
One of my more frequent rants is the unsatisfying state of affairs with current business education. The formula behind what it means to be a successful business is continually being redefined; the...
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EMC Durham Data Center: The First 90 Days Mad Dash Teamwork Brings Success
By Stephen Doherty, Principal IT Project Manager This is the second installment of a blog series about the EMC Durham Data Center. Click here to read part one. In my first blog in this data center...
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Latest on vLab (including Openstack labs)
For those of you using vLab – keep on doing it! in Q2, EMCers, EMC partners and some EMC customers even drove more than 23,000 uses of vLab. It’s one of those usage charts that is “up and to the......
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Big Data Is Not Just For Big Business
Gary Evans, CTO, EMC Ireland I was asked a couple of weeks ago to present to a group on Big Data. The target audience was C-level executives in the SME (Small and Medium-sized Enterprise) arena. Now...
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Busted! A MythBusters Approach to Big Data Analytics
During a Big Data analytics project you uncover a ton of information about your business. All of it expands your knowledge, and some of it leads you to new and interesting hypotheses. The trick is to...
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The Information Economy Strategy – Is the government doing enough to support...
Recent weeks have seen two important announcements from the UK government on how it intends to support and accelerate growth in the digital industries of the future. The Information Economy Strategy...
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Service Levels and Innovation
I have been blogging my way through the theme that application workloads drive innovation into the underlying high-tech infrastructure. In my previous two posts I gave evidence that the disk array...
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Psst. Secret info now available.
EMC SEs in my team get a quarterly training package which is about 6-10 hours of content. It’s structured to inform our field BEFORE things arrive. This is one of three major parts how we continually...
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DCI #7 – Data Center Insiders Podcast with Chad Sakac
In this episode of the Data Center Insiders podcast I speak with the one and only Virtual Geek, Chad Sakac. As always I enjoy my conversations with Chad and his excellent knowledge of technology and...
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Departmental Workloads
In previous posts I stated that evolving application workloads have been a primary cause of innovation inthe high-tech industry. For example, applications drove the need for faster disk response times...
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How EMC IT Does Storage
By Chuck Hollis — VP, Global Chief Technology Officer You might be used to getting storage advice from a storage vendor, but the better source might be to speak to someone in their IT group. Such is...
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DCI #8 EMC Backup & Recovery with Alex Almeida
Alex Almeida is the Senior Technical Manager from EMC’s Backup & Recovery Systems Division, and a backup guy from way-back. With the recent big announcements from EMC around most of its backup...
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Building Data Science Teams
I delivered a session called “Building Data Science Teams” (viewable on YouTube) at EMC World. As I mentioned during the presentation, as much as the media is focusing on the shortage of Data...
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EMC Technology Tour coming to reveal “Paranoia”
Backup making you paranoid? Come find out how we can help and watch the movie. Get the technology insights you need tolead—and be among the first to screenParanoia, the new Harrison Ford blockbuster...
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