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NAS Gateway Alternatives
Mission-critical storage is not just block storage anymore with the introduction of the VMAX 10K Block and File system that was developed as an alternative to traditional file gateway deployment...
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Davos & The Coming of the Second Machine Age
Today in Davos, EMC hosted a conversation with New York Times Columnist Tom Friedman and MIT’s Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson, who have a new book out today called, The Second Machine Age: Work,...
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The Big Data MBA: Creating A Living Document
My goal with the “Big Data: Understanding How Data Powers Business” book was to create a living document or book where I could easily share updates and integrate new ideas and concepts with the...
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2013 In Review–Lessons Learned
Right up front, I promise: no predictions! Ain’t nobody got time for that… 2013 was an interesting year for me, and looking back at it, there’s a lot to learn from it. There were highs and lows,...
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This Is Why I Can’t Have Nice Things, Blog Outage Style
There are lots of different subtitles this post could have: Just because a Synology update SAYS it doesn’t need to reboot the array doesn’t mean it won’t… Yanking storage out from under a running...
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It Doesn’t Matter What You Think: Setting up the Linksys EA6900
Trust me, by the time we get done you’ll understand the title… Based on the work that Chris Wahl did documenting his upgrade to 5GHz in his home lab, I ran right out and purchased a spiffy new Linksys...
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New Role, New Challenge
Well, it’s certainly been an interesting time in my professional life, lately. I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be starting in a new role with VMware next week, running the “Platform” product line...
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Trends in Telco: How Network Functions Virtualization and Big Data will...
Anton Prenneis Technology Evangelist EMC OEM Solutions In just over a month, more than 70,000 people from around the world will descend upon Barcelona, Spain for the annual Mobile World Congress...
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Cloud Foundry as Device Driver
It is a bad pun to say that Cloud Foundry is a Pivotal layer of a data analytic stack, but it's true. I first discovered Cloud Foundry over four years ago after hearing about it from Storagezilla. I...
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Two Big Deals EMC Architect Tool, and a HUGE new way to get EMC software.
On last week’s “Speaking in Tech” episode (it’s one of my favorite podcasts – sometimes silly, sometimes insightful, but always fun – subscribe here), Greg asked me what is going on in my gig – and I...
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The Edge of Chaos
The system with the greatest processing complexity that controls the equivalent amount of information is the most creative. Complexity science tell us that the most creative and productive state is at...
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Why Olive Drab Is Decidedly Pink
At a meeting of EMC executives, author Dan Pink argued that business leaders need to look beyond extrinsic incentives to intrinsic motivators.
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Data Science Projects – Value Comes First
Most companies are investing in some sort of Big Data capabilities but just having these capabilities isn’t enough. They’re cool but if you can’t provide business value your investment dollars will...
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The Countdown Begins: EMC Business Partner Program
“Whew!,” is all I can say. We finished up 2013 with a flurry of activity as we ran our fall Partner Advisory Boards: four weeks, four countries, four cities and 65,000 air miles. These advisory boards...
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Getting Your Hands Dirty With ViPR
One of the most requested conversations I’m asked to present on, other then End User Computing, is EMC’s Strategy as it relates to the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC). As you can imagine it’s a...
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Hot Topics for 2014
In strictly avoiding making new year’s predictions in this space, in the last few years I have: Spoken with the ghosts of eDiscovery Past, Present and Future (2011) Created a New Year’s Wish List for...
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How to Protect a Mission Critical Environment
EMC has added a new video to it’s Big Idea;Big Tech series with “How to Protect a Mission Critical Environment”. This one offers a great overview of the reasons why businesses should be thinking about...
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Splunk on VMware and EMC ScaleIO – A quick index performance test
The last few weeks I’ve been getting acquainted with Splunk, a powerful tool for searching, analysing and visualising logs and events that happen in your infrastructure, live application performance...
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Graph Analytics 101
I’m intrigued by graph analytics. It’s a wonderful analytic tool to uncover insights about customer, product and device/node relationships buried inside social media, telecommunications, healthcare,...
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SMARTS Evolution
One product set being featured at Cisco Live this week is EMC's Service Assurance Suite. The evolution of the SMARTS technology acquired by EMC last decade is part of this suite. Given the heritage of...
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