The Enterprise Social Fabric: Putting next-generation collaboration to work
IT’S A DIGITAL LIFE People in the 21st Century increasingly perceive themselves and each other through their “digital selves.” The digital self, which can be made up of avatars, blogs, profiles,...
View ArticleChaos, Big Data, Systems and Sustainability
The symbol of diverging arrows above is said to represent chaos. I added the globe for sustainability and the dizzy green surround to represent big data in raw form. Cutting and...
View ArticleIt’s back and going for gold – TFT Returns
Hello taverners Sometimes it’s hard – or impossible – to put the genie back in the bottle. So it appears for The Fantastic Tavern. I have plenty of requests to bring it back and now our kind...
View ArticleWhy content shouldn’t be king
Content is everywhere and always present. It is what we read, watch, listen to or look at. Digitally, content is data. In the UK, data employs 1.52 mio people in the IT industry. In June 2011 there...
View ArticleWe've Been Awarded Search Partner of The Year (United Stated) by Microsoft
Today MSFT has announced their partners of the year and we've been awarded Search Partner of The Year for 2012!You can see the winners your self on...
View ArticleWe are the Winners of the 2012 Search Partner of the Year announced by...
Microsoft awarded EMC as Search Partner of the Year for 2012!Have a look at the winners at the below mentioned...
View ArticleIndependence Day Redux
Three years ago cloud IT was still an emerging concept. Intriguing. Two years ago the promise of cloud was better defined and many had already made a successfull start. But new understanding was...
View ArticleEMC Press Release on Winning Microsoft Search Partner of the Year
It's been an exciting past few weeks as I attended Microsoft's World Partner Conference for the award winners activities, going on stage in front of over 16000 world wide partners was surprisingly...
View ArticleBig Data Predictions - Truth and Context
"It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future" Among others, variations on this quote have been attributed to Yogi Berra, Dan Quayle, Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein and Confucius....
View ArticleSharePoint 2013 Installation: Part 1 of 2
I decided to try and install SharePoint 2013 Preview on a VM on my laptop. Doing it yourself is still the best way to learn. It’s even better to make a record of what you did. You may want to read...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013 Installation: Part 2 of 2
I’m continuing from Part 1. I am ready to install SQL Server 2008 R2. I suspect that I should really install SQL Server 2008 R2 before starting with SharePoint 2013. But I wanted to see what would...
View ArticleBloggers Digest - 23rd August 2012
Below is a digest of some interesting blogs that EMC Thought Leaders have posted in the last 7 days. Coutersy of @mattbuckley. 1. Reflections – EMC Executives Report From The Road The problem with...
View ArticleStrategy & Experience Newsletter 28/08/12 - How To Spend It - via Asen Tsvyatkov
How To Spend It The world of behavioural economics never ceases to amaze and inspire us. We recently discovered another instance where the emotional trumps the rational and people’s behaviour...
View ArticleStrategy & Experience Newsletter 29/08/12 - What is Your Social Credit...
What is Your Social Credit Standing? Creditworthiness is one of the driving forces behind the financial services industry, and as we saw in our previous example, people’s behavour is no longer...
View ArticleStrategy & Experience Newsletter 30/08/12 - Pay By Voice. Via Asen Tsvyatkov
Pay By Voice One of the many things Square is famous for is the ingenious data triangulation which makes it one of the smoothest acceptance experiences today. A recent NY Times article, revealed the...
View ArticleStrategy & Experience Newsletter 31/08/12 - Miscellaneous Inspiration. Via...
Miscellaneous Inspiration: Remarkable Ryanair The EMC Consulting strategy and retail team recently held one of our customary dinner events, focused on the knotty subject of innovation. One of the...
View ArticleDigital Government Accelerating in Cloud IT
In 1965 there was a proposal to to create one massive federal data center. It was stopped by a public outcry about invasion of privacy and because it would have cost about $12 million a year....
View ArticleWhat EMC have blogged about last week 12th to 19th September via Matthew...
09/18/2012 Technology for Social Transformation Sarv Saravanan, Senior Vice President & General Manager, India & Egypt COEs India, Egypt, Malaysia, Vietnam, South Africa, Algeria -- We call...
View ArticleWhat EMC have blogged about last week, 12th to 19th September via Matthew...
Introducing the Human Face of Big Data Brian Fitzgerald, Vice President, Marketing RSA, The Security Division of EMC Sometimes, in the technology world, the hype wildly overstates the real power or...
View ArticleData Center Energy in a Times Warp
A recent NY Times series titled “The Cloud Factories” has stirred up some controversy (over 300 comments- mostly negative). That’s a good thing. Data Center energy consumption is a critical...
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