The Channel Has Spoken: Customers Want Dell EMC VMAX 950F for Their...
This month, CRN announced their 2017 Products of the Year, with the judging being done by those who work directly with the offerings to solve customers’ problems – the IT channel. At Dell EMC we are...
View ArticleDigital Transformation – the Connected CEO’s Main Focus
Digital disruption is coming. Through my travels meeting with customers around the region, one thing is very clear – the current trend toward digitization is not a passing fad that will gracefully let...
View ArticleFive Reasons Mobile Devices Will Generate the Need for More Servers
In 1987 when I read a book titled The Media Lab that described some forward-looking work at MIT, I came across the question: how will we directly connect our nervous systems to the global computer? I...
View ArticleLooking forward to 2018Part 1: Buy to Buy and HCI (and more)
The ongoing evolution of HCI – 2017, 2018 and beyond – in three parts. In 2016, EMC (and then Dell EMC) and VMware started with several goals – one of which was to become #1 in the HCI market by the...
View Article‘Tis the Season to Help Meet All Of Your Customers’ Data Protection Needs —...
As a highly qualified Dell EMC channel partner, you’ve earned the trust and confidence of your customers that you can deliver powerful IT solutions that can help transform their enterprise performance...
View ArticleNever Stop Climbing: Three Secrets That Got PowerEdge to the Top
“Strive to be more than number one. Strive to be the greatest number one. – Matshona Dhliwayo How should one feel when you reach the pinnacle of the tall, steep mountain you always wanted to climb? Or...
View Article[The Source Podcast] The Transformed Dell Technologies Executive Briefing...
The Dell Technologies Executive Briefing Program provides a perfect opportunity for our customers to address a wide range of IT topics, built on a foundation of trust, as well as Dell’s commitment to...
View ArticleData Driven Marketing Insists Upon a New Operating Model
In a recent interview with IDG, I discussed how data driven marketing has accelerated the evolution of the modern CMO. Thanks to the increased insight presented by the sheer volume of Big Data, the...
View ArticleLooking forward to 2018Part 2: Hint, its not about infrastructure.
If you’re just catching up, this is a part of a multi-blog post epic saga (ha!) with some things that are on my mind as I reflect towards 2018. I’d encourage you to read the first part here, which...
View ArticleLooking forward to 2018: Vertical Stack Wars are upon us.
This is part 3 of a 3-part blog series on things that I’m thinking about going into 2018. Warning – remember, Virtual Geek post are my musings, not an official company position. They are officially...
View ArticleThe Mobile Desktop – Taking Corporate Infrastructure on the Road
Although the personal computer has been declared dead many times, it continues to be the primary way in which work gets done in the modern age. As such, the merging of Dell and EMC is great news for...
View ArticleTo allTHANK YOU for 2017, and lets dream of 2018!
To all my readers, all our customers and partners, all my colleagues, all my friends – heck my competitors, thank you for everything in 2017. It was a year filled with change for me in the middle of...
View ArticleData Driven Marketing Insists Upon a New Operating Model
In a recent interview with IDG, I discussed how data driven marketing has accelerated the evolution of the modern CMO. Thanks to the increased insight presented by the sheer volume of Big Data, the...
View ArticleRefined Thinking like a Data Scientist Series
We don’t need “citizen data scientists”; we need “citizens of data science.” I’ve written several blogs and conducted numerous student and executive training sessions associated with getting business...
View ArticleThe DevOps Counterpart You Forgot You Needed
Buzzwords like DevOps tend to drive the discussion when it comes to digital transformation. But a recent white paper from Moor Insights notes that in addition to DevOps, the efficiencies gained in IT...
View ArticlePatching Missteps Are Not an Excuse to Blame Victims of Ransomware Attacks
“It’s their own fault. They wouldn’t have been hit if they’d kept up with their patches and updates.” How many times did we hear this line in the wake of WannaCry, Petya and virtually every other...
View Article[The Source Podcast] Transforming and Converging Data Protection with...
The Dell EMC Forum 2017 provided the opportunity for Dell EMC customers to get the latest updated direct from product and solutions specialists. With a cornucopia of breakout sessions available, not...
View ArticleBuild a Last Line of Defense Against Cyber Attacks
Channel partners looking for new revenue sources should consider qualifying to sell the Dell EMC Isolated Recovery solution. It’s the last line of data protection defense for your customers against...
View ArticleCloud Computing Is the next Business Platform: What This Means for Your...
For IT organizations, cloud computing can dramatically impact not only technical infrastructure but also skill sets, processes and operations—often in unanticipated ways. In fact, cloud computing is...
View ArticleAutomated Data Protection for Virtualized, Mission-Critical Apps
As a channel partner, you need ways to help your customers protect their data and also set yourself apart from the competition. That’s what you get with the updated and greatly enhanced Dell EMC Data...
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