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View ArticleWhy The Storage Farm Continues To Grow And Grow
Back in 1994, I was lured from Los Altos, CA to Hopkinton MA to interview for a new position at then-startup EMC. The recruiter said that EMC was expanding from their mainframe storage market into...
View ArticleAre Conditions Right For A "Chief Data Officer"?
It's not exactly a new idea. If information is the new corporate wealth, who is responsible for maximizing its value, ensuring its proper use, and safeguarding its integrity? You might be tempted to...
View ArticleRSA Live Webcast: Be Empowered to Know How IT Security Risks Impact Your...
Today?s IT security teams must be able to quickly prioritize and manage security incidents. This live webcast discusses why business context and proper incident management are imperative, how to...
View ArticleIn Praise Of IT Sales Reps
They go by many names: account manager, sales representative, etc. In our world of enterprise IT, they're an essential part of the chain that delivers value from producers to consumers. But they get...
View ArticleA Change In Role
I enjoy watching the great people in our community evolve into to new roles and new responsibilities. Every day, there's someone on Twitter announcing their latest change, with plenty of well-wishing...
View ArticleGoing To VMworld? Interested in Software-Defined Storage?
VMworld is right around the corner, and I know many of you are going -- or at least *wish* you were going! VMworld has evolved into one of the premier industry events for us infrastructure types --...
View ArticleBackup! And Watch These New Networker Microsoft Demos
Networker has added some great functionality in the Microsoft backup space recently, including a lot of great integration with SQL, Exchange, and Hyper-V. The videos below are meant to show you the...
View ArticleSurvey Says… A Dual Hypervisor Strategy?
If you are virtualizing physical servers and want to see what others in the industry are doing, then you should definitely take this survey. The Wikibon guys running the survey are top notch and will...
View ArticleWhy You Should Consider VMware As A Serious (Future) Storage Vendor
We can be a tight-knit group in the storage world. Everyone knows who the relevant vendors are, what they do, and how they stack up: NetApp, EMC, HDS, HP, Dell, IBM and so on. For years, I've followed...
View ArticleBlackBerry -- I Knew You Well
Today marks a bittersweet day for many of us who have formed deep personal relationships with our gadgets -- the announcement by Blackberry, Inc. that it is once again exploring "strategic...
View ArticleDevOps & Application Security: People You Need to Know
Eric Baize, Senior Director of the Product Security Office, was recently featured in the Trusted Software Alliance’s 50 in 50 Interview Series along with other stalwarts from the DevOps &...
View ArticleVMware Still Dominant, Hyper-V Gaining Ground
The results from Wikibon’s Multi-Hypervisor study are back, and there’s a good amount of data that you can dig into. For virtualization trends the survey provides evidence that virtualization will...
View ArticleThe VMware View Of Software Defined Storage
VMworld is upon us, and -- amidst all the noise and chatter -- VMware is quietly laying out the first chapter in how it views software-defined storage. Like all good stories, it's going to take a...
View ArticleConsidering VSAN
For us storage types, one of the more interesting announcements coming out of VMworld is VSAN (formal name "Virtual SAN"), which will now be available in beta form before too long. Although VSAN does...
View ArticleHow to Follow VMworld from your Couch
The VMworld effect? This week is VMworld and if you are in IT, it’s likely that you might be hearing about it in some way. There are tweets, press releases, pictures of grown men dressed up like...
View ArticleFive Reasons Why EMC for Windows Server 2012
Increase Data Transfer Performance with ODX Optimize Storage Utilization With Virtual Provisioning Detection Provide Flexible and Reliable Server Storage with SMB 3.0 Simplify Storage Management With...
View ArticleReal Software Does Have Bugs (and Vulnerabilities Too)
I was recently interviewed by a business journalist at CNBC for a story on high-profile software glitches that impacted operations of a trading company and an airline. The interviewer was seeking...
View ArticleVFCache 1.5 = A HomeRun for SQL Server
In this episode of “Lightning Strikes,” EMC Vice President Ken Grohe discusses the new features available in VFCache 1.5, including deduplication and orchestrated vMotion. The predominant use case for...
View ArticleVNX Replication: Ask the Experts… Now!
For the next three weeks we’re inviting anyone and everyone to ask anything about data replication on an EMC VNX storage array. This is part of our Ask the Experts Series on the EMC Community Network...
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