2017: A Turbulent Year – But Also a Year of IT Pragmatism
Inevitably as a calendar year wraps up – one reflects back on the year past and dreams of the year to come. One thing that is constant is hyperbole and irrational exuberance. We tend to like black and...
View ArticleRetiring SAP and Non-SAP Environments in a Cost-Effective Manner to Get...
In an enterprise environment, information technology never stands still. It is always evolving. As next-generation systems and applications, such as SAP HANA in-memory database and appropriate...
View ArticleCompetition Bites The Dust in Face-off with Dell EMC VMAX All Flash
As the General Manager of the Dell EMC VMAX business unit, I interact with a variety of customers on a daily basis. It is very clear to me that today’s IT practitioners are increasingly relying on...
View Article2018: The Year Man and Machine Meld Together in the Data Center
IT, much like nature, abhors a vacuum. Businesses are more dependent on IT to drive innovation than ever. But the challenges associated with managing IT at the level of scale required to drive that...
View ArticleThe 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 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 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 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 ArticleData Integration Is the Cure to Increasing IoT Adoption in Healthcare
In a recent Verizon report on the adoption of IoT in various industries between 2016 and 2017, healthcare came in last with only an 11% increase. This is compared to manufacturing as the far-and-away...
View ArticleEconomics, Monetization and the “New Order” Automobile Industry
Premise: How will the traditional car industry create and extract customer value in the future when the source of that value is no longer the vehicle itself? An increasingly digital economy is...
View ArticleDell EMC HCI Launches on Optimized PowerEdge 14th Generation Servers
The best just got even better![1] The launch of an exciting new ‘supercharged’ solution from Dell EMC gives you a fantastic opportunity to increase your margins while also helping customers to boost...
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 ArticleDell EMC Vscale Turns Converged Infrastructure Inside Out
The days when IT departments can take months to stitch components together and build the perfect data center are coming to an end. Businesses expect their IT organizations to deliver a turnkey,...
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...
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