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Burnish Your Brand, Using Your Best Talents More Often
By Sheryl Chamberlain, Senior Director, Technology Standards and Strategic Initiatives, CTO Office Wherever you go, whatever you do, the most effective tool you bring with you is the brand called...
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Isilon/Syncplicity File Sharing: Get Some
A nice review of the concept(s) I’m about to discuss can be found at GeekFluent. Yes, it’s a dated post but I don’t do anything in a hurry. Read up, here. I don’t shill for EMC products, well, ever....
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vBeers Tweetup – VMworld San Francisco 2013 (Saturday 24th August 2013)
VMworld San Francisco 2013 is almost here again folks and it’s time for another vBeers Tweetup! The last vBeers Tweetup from VMworld SF 2012 was a great time so I couldn’t let this opportunity go by...
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Capital doesn’t grow on trees
Steve O’Neil recently blogged about why CFO’s should be looking at their vendor’s financing options with more earnest in today’s economic climate. An organization can reduce some of their risk or even...
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Contextual Customer Service
As I stepped on to an elevator at the W Downtown hotel on a recent trip to New York City, I noticed the mat on the floor said, “Good Morning.” Hmmm, I thought, glancing at my watch as it read 11:45am,...
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Intellectual Property – What is knowledge worth?
The BBC in the UK published an interesting article last week. The security industry has been beating the drum very loudly about the value of corporate assets vs. value of custodial data and we were...
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Workload Evolution and the Rise of Metadata
I have written several blog posts about the following hypothesis: The evolution of application workflows is a major driver for innovation in IT infrastructures. In order to prove this point,...
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vSAN vs. ScaleIO fight!
I guess I’m not immune to the temptation for the inflammatory blog post title :-) Over the last week, I’ve gotten a lot of “vSAN and ScaleIO seem similar – I don’t get it why would EMC/VMware do the...
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Why The Storage Farm Continues To Grow And Grow
Back in 1994, I was lured from Los Altos, CA to Hopkinton MA to interview for a new position at then-startup EMC. The recruiter said that EMC was expanding from their mainframe storage market into...
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LeapMotion unboxing and quick review
Today I got a really nice surprise when I got to the office, our LeapMotion devices had been delivered! Yes, I ordered eight of them and no, not all are for me LeapMotion is a small and incredible...
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GiveWell: How Data Transparency Leads Donors to Better Charitable Giving
Carter Wilkie, Senior Director, Executive Communications Two young financial analysts make good money in the hedge fund business and decide to give a chunk of it away to some worthy humanitarian...
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Not Sure Which Hadoop Distro To Use? EMC Isilon Provides Big Data Portability
95% of clients starting Hadoop projects don’t have an established use case; therefore, selecting the right distribution will probably be a shot in the dark. You may start off with Hortonworks for a...
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Are Conditions Right For A "Chief Data Officer"?
It's not exactly a new idea. If information is the new corporate wealth, who is responsible for maximizing its value, ensuring its proper use, and safeguarding its integrity? You might be tempted to...
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It’s A Great Time for Collaboration — EMC Syncplicity a Leader in File Sync...
Let the good times roll — EMC Syncplicity has been positioned as a “Leader” by Forrester Research, Inc. in its July 2013 report, “The Forrester Wave™: File Sync and Share Platforms, Q3 2013. Forrester...
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Application Workloads and Object Innovation
This series of blog posts has focused on the evolution of high-tech infrastructure in response to constantly-evolving application workloads. In my last post I described how unstructured and...
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Introducing MitCH: A Channel Superpower
Ladies and gentlemen, I’d like to introduce “MitCH.” No, it’s not a new single-name celebrity like Beyonce or Prince. MitCH actually stands for “Meet in the Channel” and represents the way in which...
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Working from Home
Hi all, I had a very enlightening conversation with someone I admire recently who put a new lens on the work from home debate for me. It has long been held as a belief that the effectiveness of...
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CISO – The Changing Role
I wonder how many CISO ’s or individuals in a similar role go to the board with bowl in hand to ask for more? More of what you might ask? Budget of course! And how many times are they challenged? CISO...
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New Book: VMware Private Cloud Computing with vCloud Director
My friend, and ex-colleague, Simon Gallagher has just released a book on “VMware Private Cloud Computing with vCloud Director”. As the name suggests the content will no doubt appeal to those of you...
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Securing HTTP-based APIs With Signatures
I work at EMC on a platform on top of which SaaS solutions can be built. This platform has a RESTful HTTP-based API, just like a growing number of other applications. With development frameworks like...
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