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The Contrast Is Stunning

admin — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:05:37 +0000

I think people know by now that I get to meet lots of customers and partners in the course of my work. Actually, I really don't consider it "work", it's really a lot of fun. And they even pay me Sometimes, though, you get this great juxtaposition: you get to see how different IT organizations approach the same fundamental challenge in entirely different ways. And the contrast can be stunning ..

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My Friday Rant — Transparency

admin — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:10:25 +0000

Four things happened this week that sort of bothered me, and it finally struck me that all four revolved around the concept of transparency. Transparency is one of those things I didn't realize was truly important until later in my personal development. Once I learned of its importance, though, life became better for me and those around me. I can only hope that others aren't as slow as I was to catch on ..

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Another Step Towards Information Governance

admin — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:59:08 +0000

Sorry for falling behind the pace here, but there was a recent EMC product announcement that I found worthy of a deeper discussion. EMC's SourceOne group just announced their new File Intelligence product. And, as organizations struggle to get their arms around unfettered information growth, we may just have a new and important tool in the arsenal

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Questions From "Journey To The Private Cloud" Simulcast

admin — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:23:10 +0000

A few weeks back, I joined Sanjay Mirchandani (our CIO) and Tom Roloff (heads up EMC Consulting) on a neat simulcast that was beamed to multiple locations around North America. The content mostly focused on EMC IT's journey — results, challenges and lessons learned — but we spent a lot of time answering questions as well. Despite our best efforts, there were many good questions that we just didn't have time to answer

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Customer Priceline talks about 3PAR storage

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:37:45 +0000

Here's a video that TechTarget produced for us with one of our customers, Priceline.com . Here are a few highlights from the video: Priceline.com was one of the first e-commerce players to adopt virtualization. That may account for why the company's IT organization is known for for it's high availability and ability to adapt quickly to changes in the market. Given the fact that their business has a broad value-based appeal, their IT organization works very hard to get the best rate of return for their capital expenditures. 3PAR storage allowed them to increase their storage capacity over 400% over the last four years while reducing the administrative load required to manage it all. Ron Rose, ex-CIO at Priceline (now on the Sr

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Reconsidering the LUN

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:20:54 +0000

I wrote previously about my current challenges involved with unlearning just about everything I've ever learned about storage. One fun exercise is to take terms and concepts we've been using for many years, and look at how their definition has evolved to a point that they're somewhat unrecognizable as compared to where they started. And today, I'm going to have some fun with LUNs … LUN — The Fundamental Unit Of Storage Allocation If you'd like a clinical treatment, I'd refer you to the Wikipedia entry here .

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VMworld Session Voting

admin — Mon, 24 May 2010 13:56:12 +0000

Ok – it’s VMworld season starting Seems like just yesterday I was in Cannes We’ve got a series of session proposals that have made it to the voting round – I’ve nominated my “Top 10”, but please peruse and if you are interested, please vote! Public voting will close on May 26th. For each track there is a direct link. You need to have a VMworld login, but that’s cake (just register) Hybrid and Public Cloud: http://vmworld.com/community/conferences/2010/cfpvote/hapcloud Private Cloud-Management: http://vmworld.com/community/conferences/2010/cfpvote/pcmanagment Private Cloud-Business Continuity: http://vmworld.com/community/conferences/2010/cfpvote/pcbusiness Private Cloud-Security: http://vmworld.com/community/conferences/2010/cfpvote/pcsecurity Enterprise Applications: http://vmworld.com/community/conferences/2010/cfpvote/eapplications Desktop Virtualization: http://vmworld.com/community/conferences/2010/cfpvote/dvirtualization Technology and Architecture: http://vmworld.com/community/conferences/2010/cfpvote/tarchitecture Virtualization 101: http://vmworld.com/community/conferences/2010/cfpvote/v101 Read on for my “Top 30”, and an complete listing of submissions we’ve made. Customers, EMCers, EMC partners – heck anyone interested – please check them out, people are working very hard behind the scenes to make it useful to all… I’m enforcing a “no commericals” rule for the EMC sessions (worked to ensure that none of the ones that sound like commericals made it into my Top 30 – and that I know that the presenters will keep it real).

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The Real Rock Stars of EMC World: EMC IT

admin — Fri, 14 May 2010 18:19:21 +0000

There's a veritable river of information, perspectives and opinions coming out of EMC World this week. Not to mention about a bazillion tweets on the #EMCworld hashtag. While all the keynotes were excellent, the one that I thought really stood out came from the EMC IT organization. Sanjay Mirchandani and his team did an excellent job of bridging the gap between theory and practice while adding a healthy dose of pragmatism to the whole private cloud discussion.

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Live From EMC World!

admin — Mon, 10 May 2010 23:25:26 +0000

Had an interesting experience today where I was interviewed and videostreamed from the show floor. David Vellante has teamed up with John Furrier, and they brought in some cool, portable studio tech that I hadn’t seen before. You can see the results below as David interviews me on social media, EMC’s strategy, storage, the mood in IT, private clouds, and — yes — social media again. Watch live video from The Cube LIVE from EMC World 2010 on Justin.tv

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100 Years of Success

admin — Tue, 04 May 2010 12:05:35 +0000

As you likely already know, Hitachi Ltd, our parent company, is celebrating its 100 th birthday this year.

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