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A Note To My Regular Readers ...
Given that Google's Reader is disappearing at the end of the month, and Google's Feedburner is not far behind, I thought the time was right to switch over to a new feed service -- FeedBlitz....
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Storage: Demand And Supply
That boring stuff -- storage -- is where we keep all of the interesting information we care to own. The size and growth of the storage market can often be a rough proxy for economic macro-trends such...
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What Storage Might Look Like In Five Years
Once in a while, I get someone who challenges me to really think outside the box, and speculate what things might look like farther out beyond the typical 12-24 month horizon. When that gauntlet...
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How I Give A Really Good Customer Presentation
I have given many thousands of presentations during my career -- and that's no exaggeration. I've always enjoyed doing this, which makes me focus on it, which makes me better, which makes it even...
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How EMC IT Does Storage
You might be used to getting storage advice from a storage vendor, but the better source might be to speak to someone in their IT group. Such is the case with EMC IT -- a great team I've written about...
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Software Security at EMC: The Journey So Far
As the lead of the Product Security Assurance team at EMC, I am often asked to talk about our software security practices. While previously we have shared our practices with industry presentations,...
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Running IT Like A Business: Where Are We?
There's a frequent observation that our familiar enterprise IT function might be better branded as "enterprise IS" -- information services. The business people paying the bills aren't all that...
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Thoughts From The Hadoop Summit
This week, many of my colleagues are attending the Hadoop Summit in San Jose. Another sizable group are down in Orlando at the Cisco Live event. While both events are interesting, I've been more...
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Information Logistics -- Revisited
A long while back, I wrote a speculative post around what I dubbed "information logistics" -- the disciplines associated with getting the right information in the right place at the right time -- and...
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The Ongoing Challenge Of Data Migrations
One of the more painful topics in the storage business that never gets much of a public airing is data migrations: the inevitable necessity of moving all that information from one piece of hardware...
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Backup To The Future?
In the beauty pageant of sexy IT topics, data protection doesn't usually fare well in garnering attention. Not many IT types get excited about providing good data protection, and all that it entails....
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Happy Customer: City of Lenexa on EMC VNX (w/FAST) and VMware
In the video below, Justin Rairden talks about using FAST-enabled VNX storage for his VMware environment which hosts Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server. SUMMARY: they went from 14 SANs with nothing...
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Speculation on ScaleIO
Last Thursday, EMC announced the acquisition of ScaleIO, a small Israeli storage startup. While many news sources reported the facts of the transaction, painfully few went deeper to try and explore...
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Get Inside the EMC/Microsoft Partnership
I’ve had the privilege of knowing and working with Sam Marraccini for about 10 years now and although he’s a Pittsburgh Penguins fan, he’s always been a great guy to hang out with and a prolific...
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Business School Lessons From Evolutionary Biology
One of my more frequent rants is the unsatisfying state of affairs with current business education. The formula behind what it means to be a successful business is continually being redefined; the...
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EMC Acquires Aveksa Inc., Leading Provider of Business-Driven Identity and...
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EMC Elevates Data Protection Strategy with Sweeping Array of New Products
New Data Domain Systems Deliver 4x Performance, 10x Scalability; Data Protection Suite Enhanced with Deeper Storage and Virtualization Integration; Mozy Makes Cloud Backup Easier to Scale and Manage...
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Independent Research Firm Names EMC Syncplicity a Leader in File Sync and...
EMC Recognized as one of the ?Leaders? with a Strong Offering and a Solid Strategy for Success; Receives Highest Score Possible in Security Model, Administration, and Mobile Strategy Update your feed...
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EMC to Acquire ScaleIO?Strengthens Industry-Leading Flash Portfolio
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Weak Help Desk Security Traced to Lack of Training, Loose Processes and Too...
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