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Here Comes the 4th Platform
The title of this piece is not a typo. I’ll explain… EMC’s 2014 strategy is built on the premise that IT as we know it is being redefined by the 3rd platform. It’s almost impossible to attend any...
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IT Infrastructure from EMC Redefined Lotus F1 Team.
Formula One 2014 rule changes brought massive change and opportunity for the Lotus F1 Team. In order to design a competitive car, the team needed the best IT solutions available from EMC. Learn more...
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Dual Perspectives: Conflicting Viewpoints
A recent study by IDG Research shows an interesting dichotomy. IT leaders’ opinions of the progress they’ve made toward ITaaS, (i.e. running IT like a business), denotes that IT has made considerably...
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Dual Perspectives on ITaaS: Conflicting Viewpoints
A recent study by IDG Research shows an interesting dichotomy. IT leaders’ opinions of the progress they’ve made toward ITaaS, (i.e. running IT like a business), denotes that IT has made considerably...
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Importance of Metadata in a Big Data World
Last week, EMC announced the 2014 EMC Digital Universe, a study with IDC that details what the Digital Universe will look like in 2020 and the opportunities it presents. One of the interesting...
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The Hybrid Cloud – Its Place In The Move To ITaaS
In my last post, I examined the demands IT transformation places on organizations that want to provide IT as a service (ITaaS). I suggested that while those demands make public cloud solutions very...
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How To Increase Confidence in IT? Foster Better Communication with the Business
Today, enterprises are facing more cybersecurity threats and risks than ever before, demanding more resources from both IT organizations and their associated businesses. Yet, the confluence of...
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Stop Blaming Storage For Busting you VDI Budget
Guess what….you can now officially stop blaming storage as the most expensive part of a VDI deployment. Gunnar Berger (@gunnarwb) with Gartner sent out a provocative tweet that grabbed my...
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Notes of Encouragement
I have just completed a two-day "Energy Excursion" sponsored by the Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce. And I have never encountered more auspicious signs for a carbon-reduced energy future. The...
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Managers and Individual Contributors in Code
I’m lucky to work for a company that makes it possible to have a good technical career, so that I don’t have to become a manager just to get more money. I like being an individual contributor because...
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Dual Perspectives on ITaaS: Steps of Progress
We now know that Cloud is no longer hype but a reality and almost all organizations have begun the transition to some form of the Cloud – whether it be embracing the public Cloud or implementing a...
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Government’s Critical Role in the Expanding Digital Universe
By Karen Delprete, EMC As I publish yet another blog post, I realize that I am contributing to the digital data explosion. What digital data explosion you ask? The digital data explosion is not just...
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Beware Simpson’s Paradox
When I first heard of the “Simpson’s Paradox,” I immediately thought of my favorite TV show, The Simpsons. I thought the paradox had to about how Homer Simpson deals with the challenges he faces in...
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Digital Universe Study by EMC With Research & Analysis From IDC.
The EMC Digital Universe study recently launched its seventh edition. This highly anticipated study always makes a big splash because it focuses industry attention on the incredible growth rates of...
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The Second Machine Age: 5 Things Our Kids’ Kids Won’t Know about Retail Shopping
Transforming secure and protected retail will require data correlation and aggregation, and matching shopping trends with predictive purchasing.
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Listening to Customers
The definition of listening is “to make an effort… to hear something… to pay attention… to heed advice.” It’s a critical element in defining the success of any relationship and it’s the starting point...
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EMC Hadoop Starter Kit ViPR Edition: Creating a Smarter Data Lake
Pivotal HD offers a wide variety of data processing technologies for Hadoop – real-time, interactive, and batch. Add integrated data storage EMC Isilon scale-out NAS to Pivotal HD and you have a...
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Dress for Success with Pivotal RabbitMQ
I recently finished writing a series of articles discussing next-generation applications and the new models of IT infrastructure that are often required to support them. My focus was primarily on the...
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Conscious Giving is Better Together
There is no muscle memory to writing a check. We forget about it just as soon as it’s cashed and unfortunately, we’re often too busy to even notice. But the people suffering without food, water or...
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Buying Criteria vs. Use Criteria
When I talk to our customers about the advantages of a Hybrid storage array, I frequently come across many questions that I can be categorized as either buying criteria or use criteria. A couple quick...
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