Break the cycle of deploying unwieldy Hadoop infrastructure
We are in a new data-driven age. With the rise in adoption of big data analytics as a decision-making tool comes the need to accelerate time-to-insights and deliver faster innovation informed by...
View ArticleBig Data and the Personalization Challenge: The Murky Middle
Bill Schmarzo What if you knew, through legal means, something about someone where you could intervene to deliver advice to help them perform better or stay out of danger? Should you act on that? I...
View ArticleGRC – A Rising Tide That Lifts all Ships
I think back to a handful of audits over my career as an internal auditor where the people performing the function we audited just seemed to get it right. They knew how to run their business, but...
View ArticleCloud Foundry’s Impact on App Development
Earlier today, I had the opportunity to keynote the Cloud Foundry Summit Asia with Cloud Foundry Foundation CEO Sam Ramji. Notably, this is the first year that Cloud Foundry is governed by an...
View ArticleNever Put Off Until Tomorrow What You Can Do Today
This week I had the privilege of participating in an event held in Sydney, Australia, with Bill Dawes, publisher and editor of Image & Data Manager, and Chris McLaughlin, Chief Marketing Officer...
View ArticleFriendly Fraud and How to Keep Parents Safe Online
I recently read a great blog which discusses a child’s journey through the digital universe. If you are a parent, especially of a young child, I highly recommend it. The digital world offers so many...
View ArticleCan Kids Give Us A Lesson Or Two On Big Data Analytics?
Math scores across US grade schools have dropped this year according to newly published NAEP 2015 test scores. According to the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematic) Education...
View ArticleSAP HANA: EMC IT Trailblazes Into the Unknown So You Don’t Have To
Sometimes, when your organization is leading the way in adopting bleeding-edge technology, you need to be a trail blazer to help to advance the innovation as an early adopter. EMC IT has a history of...
View Article2016 – The Year EMC Leads the Smart Cities Transformation
IDC recently released its top 10 smart city predictions for 2016 creating a renewed focus on the concepts and technologies that enable smart cities. Government Technology summarized the IDC...
View ArticleThe Mid-market Big Data Call to Action
Bill Schmarzo I recently had the opportunity to do a webinar titled “The Data Lake: Empowering your Data Science Team” with Senturus. (Note: Select the [webinar] button on the upper right of the page...
View ArticleProduct Alias: Tag a Product with a Custom Name (Video!)
Hello All! Recently, I was asked to do a demonstration of the product alias feature of online support. As a result I took some time to create this <4 minute video that will show you how to use...
View ArticleRackHD: An Open Source Solution for a Hyper-Scale Problem
You might recall that we took our first major step into open source back at EMC World, rolling out the CoprHD project – derived directly from EMC’s ViPR Controller product. At the time, I said that...
View ArticleE4 – Storms on the Horizon – The Calm Before
Marty walked into the executive conference room and felt he had passed through a portal of luxury. No battered pizza boxes in the trash cans. No empty soda cans littering the table. No crazy mess...
View Article3 Guiding Principles of Service Innovation
Chris Gaudlip If you are a pilot or an aviation buff, you are familiar with the three rules of being a pilot. In the event of a situation you must (1) aviate, (2) navigate, and (3) communicate with...
View ArticleA REALLY big day for EMC in Open Source.
Last week we published a huge testimonial from a great customer (Verizon) about what we’re doing with them around their network function virtualization and cloud efforts. Hint, it doesn’t center...
View ArticleCloud Foundry’s Impact on App Development
Earlier today, I had the opportunity to keynote the Cloud Foundry Summit Asia with Cloud Foundry Foundation CEO Sam Ramji. Notably, this is the first year that Cloud Foundry is governed by an...
View ArticleForensics: Reactive or Proactive?
In the current threat-intensive operational environment, network management must include end-to-end post-breach analysis capabilities to investigate inevitable network security breaches. However,...
View ArticleIntroducing a “Pinpoint Wayback Machine” for Large Volume Salesforce Data Loss
If you’re a Salesforce admin who’s using powerful tools like Data Loader, you may have had a massive data loss “oops” experience, such as updating hundreds of thousands of records - in error - at...
View ArticleFostering Women’s Leadership Starts With Your Friends
It turns out the advice is true – breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Last week I joined 650 leaders for breakfast at a meeting of The Boston Club, a community of women executives...
View ArticleFarsighted or Foolhardy? A Look Back at My 2015 Predictions
Prediction season is nearly upon us. It’s that time of year where companies start looking ahead and reflecting on lessons of the past. Let’s start by looking back at my 2015 predictions....
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