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The Elephant In the Room: Big Data Privacy Concerns
By now, we’ve all heard the story. Target stores, through their advanced analysis of website activities, determine with some level of confidence that a visitor is a girl and that she’s likely...
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How Do You Cross the Bridge?
What a start to 2014! It’s been an EMC whirlwind of strategy, direction and customer engagement as we jump head first into 3rd Platform and the journey to the Hybrid Cloud. It’s an inflection point...
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Too Many Open Files, Or Too Few Bounded Contexts?
Server software needs to run unsupervised for long periods of time to be practical. Release It! is full of horror stories about programming mistakes that get in the way of that lofty goal. One example...
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Putting Customer Happiness First: EMC IT’s New-Look IT Service Management
By Dana Swanstrom — Director of IT Service Management, EMC IT If early results are any indication, EMC IT Service Management is making its customer 30 percent happier than we did two years ago. We are...
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Corporate MOOCs, the 3rd Platform, and the Invisible Gorilla
If a gorilla walked in front of you, you’d notice it, right? Well, not so fast. Researchers Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris’ ingenious experiment about selective attention showed us that when we...
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Productivity Gets Reimagined when Mobile is the Design Baseline
Mobile is the new design baseline, cleanly isolated and independent of any lingering PC notions.
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Understanding Skynet: Internet of Things vs. Industrial Internet
My friend Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick of SiliconANGLE) was educating me recently on the difference between the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Industrial Internet. That conversation persuaded me to...
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What Makes a Killer App?
“The Killer App” is a phrase that resonates with millions of people outside the enterprise IT world. The phrase conjures up images of billion dollar IPO’s, and late night oil burning in an intense,...
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Data Lake, Simplified
I enjoyed reading the Data Lake Dream article in Forbes (written by Edd Dumbill). The very first paragraph, for me, contained some illuminating statements about the value of a data lake. Once in the...
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Is a SAN Better, Cheaper, and More Secure Than Office 365?
SAN’s – especially SAN’s from market leader EMC – are always under attack from companies wishing to cash in on a piece of the rising data growth across all industries and market segments. Some say DAS...
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Transforming Asia’s Businesses: Redefining Leadership in the War for Talent
Redefining leadership in the Asia Pacific region requires balancing thinking, feeling, and being prepared to make tough business decisions.
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Striving To Be Less Necessary: Developing Future Security Leaders Is Crucial
By Doug Graham, Senior Director, Global Security Office – EMC IT I would no doubt turn a few heads if I said, “I’m trying really hard to get to the point where I make no decisions and do no …...
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EMC and RainStor Optimize Interactive SQL on Hadoop
Pivotal HAWQ was one of the most groundbreaking technologies entering the Hadoop ecosystem last year through its ability to execute complete ANSI SQL on large-scale datasets managed in Pivotal HD....
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Cede Authority, Grant Autonomy
In a recent post I described the successful recruitment of a team of global employees to work on an unapproved corporate strategy: the building of a global innovation analytics platform. I was...
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10 Years with EMC this week…
This week was a milestone in my career with EMC, hitting the 10 year mark on Monday Feb 17th. I thought it definitely deserved a day off for me (something about a President’s day for others that also...
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My IT predictions for 2014
Disclaimer: These are my predictions, not those of my employer. And yeah, I might be a bit late to the 2014 predictions, still wanted to share though. During 2013, a lot changed on the playing field...
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Data Lake Addendum
In Data Lake, Simplified a simple picture of an emerging infrastructure was presented: in-memory data grids on top of HDFS. The reason for this new infrastructure is that "second platform" (e.g....
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What if?
What if the United States Postal Service (USPS) were among the first to wholly embrace e-commerce? What if they were quicker to accept the fact that a package could be delivered overnight? In case you...
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GE Software Center: The Big Data Land of Oz
As many of you know, I get to spend all of my time working with customers on identifying where and how to start their software analytics and big data journeys. And I’ve been fortunate enough to work...
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Survey says: 6 ways recent EMC study results can help you sell
Have you ever sat waiting for the radio DJ to reveal the results of a survey before getting out of the car? (I need to know, Ms. DJ, what is it that 60% of people also do while watching TV?) It’s...
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