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Kathrin Winkler, Chief Sustainability Officer At EMC, as in many leading companies, we believe in mainstreaming sustainability. Rather than belonging to a single team, we see it as a shared responsibility and as a pervasive consideration in how we conduct business. Sustainability as a concept is not there in every... Continue reading
Posted 2 days ago at Reflections
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Stephen Manley, Chief Technology Officer, EMC Backup Recovery Systems Division “Well, at least you brought lunch.” – Every CIO’s reaction after I tell them we’re going to talk about backup. Backup is broken. Backups are slow and restores are even slower. Even worse, application administrators assume they’re unprotected because they... Continue reading
Posted 4 days ago at Reflections
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Bob Savage, Vice President and Managing Director, EMC Ireland Across every sector and in every boardroom, Big Data is disrupting business models. The challenge facing enterprises is how to monetise data and drive new revenues. To do that, organizations will need data savvy and business savvy innovators who can trigger... Continue reading
Posted May 16, 2013 at Reflections
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Brian Gallagher, President, Enterprise Storage Division Unique architecture for each business-critical application or standardize for efficiency? I spend a lot of time talking with IT leaders around the world, so I get a first-hand account of the struggles, tradeoffs, and effective approaches of their IT transformation and journey to cloud,... Continue reading
Posted May 8, 2013 at Reflections
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Jeremy Burton, Executive Vice President, Product Operations and Marketing It’s day two of EMC World 2013 in Las Vegas. Everybody here is talking about or asking about software-defined storage. Let me give you a couple of analogies to help you understand what we mean by software-defined storage and what we... Continue reading
Posted May 7, 2013 at Reflections
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Amitabh Srivastava, President, Advanced Storage Division The Times They Are a-Changin’ The speed at which our data is growing doesn’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon. We’ve seen the predictions – a digital universe of 40 ZB by 2020 (according to IDC), the prevalence of cloud, and our industry... Continue reading
Posted May 6, 2013 at Reflections
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Sheryl Chamberlain, Senior Director, EMC Corporate Office of the CTO Leaders aspire to build ever more nimble and responsive businesses while seeking a competitive advantage in a global economy. Today’s successful leaders must not only be strategic thinkers, but innovators as well. And the successful leaders of tomorrow must be... Continue reading
Posted May 3, 2013 at Reflections
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Prasad Rampalli, Senior Vice President, EMC Solutions Group As IT goes through waves of transformation every decade (Mainframe in ‘70s => Cloud today) the core CIO/business drivers of TCO and business agility remain as primary metrics pacing adoption. In the Cloud “wave,” I see three converging trends that will dictate... Continue reading
Posted Apr 30, 2013 at Reflections
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John Roese, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Over the previous generation, successive waves of new information technology – from the introduction of personal computers to the Internet to wireless broadband and diverse mobile devices – have enabled dramatic gains in workplace productivity. Today, in a period of widespread... Continue reading
Posted Apr 25, 2013 at Reflections
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Steve Todd, EMC Fellow and VP of Strategy & Innovation My co-workers recently forwarded me an interesting article about cognitive diversity. The Techonomy article, written by John Hagel and John Seely Brown, asserts that "like-mindedness" can hurt corporations. In other words, we should re-think the phrase "Great Minds Think Alike"... Continue reading
Posted Apr 24, 2013 at Reflections
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Tom Clancy, Vice President, EMC Education Services Business executives have been hearing for quite some time about the business advantages of cloud and IT as a Service (ITaaS), and more recently about Data Science and Big Data Analytics. However, implementing cloud or Big Data strategies is not just about the... Continue reading
Posted Apr 22, 2013 at Reflections
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Chris Goode, Vice President and Chief Public Affairs Officer The instinct to preserve and share information is as old as mankind—some of the first cave paintings trace back to 35,000 B.C. Our identity is defined by our own experiences and knowledge of the experiences that came before us. Innovation is... Continue reading
Posted Apr 18, 2013 at Reflections
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Tony Pagliarulo, Senior Vice President, Business Technology & Service Delivery For most IT executives, the term ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) is often a four-letter word, but it doesn’t have to be. I’ve had the good fortune of leading several major system transformations in my 20+ years in the industry, most... Continue reading
Posted Apr 16, 2013 at Reflections
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John Roese, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Last month, I took a trip to Barcelona to attend Mobile World Congress. This event is quite possibly the largest in the telecom and service provider industry. My rationale for going was to test a theory about (a) EMC’s focus on... Continue reading
Posted Apr 10, 2013 at Reflections
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Delia Vetter, Senior Director, Benefits and Programs How can employers mitigate the escalating costs of health care while providing a benefits program that meets the needs of their employees? By becoming data rich and making data analytics meaningful to their workforce. Meaningful and Actionable Data Over the past decade at... Continue reading
Posted Apr 8, 2013 at Reflections
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Rodrigo Gazzaneo, Specialists PreSales Manager, Latin America As the “B” in BRIC emerging economies, Brazil is at the intersection of massive economic gains and growing pains related to ongoing infrastructure limitations. Energy and transportation are some examples, but the hardest resource to find is also the most valuable: qualified professionals.... Continue reading
Posted Apr 4, 2013 at Reflections
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Sanjay Mirchandani, Executive Vice President and Former CIO While bittersweet, career changes are exhilarating. After nearly five years as EMC’s CIO, I’ve handed the reins over to our newest executive Vic Bhagat and EMC’s award-winning IT team, who proudly and painstakingly built our industry-leading cloud and Big Data foundation. I... Continue reading
Posted Apr 1, 2013 at Reflections
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Scott Yara, Senior Vice President, Products, EMC Greenplum We are living in an extraordinary time. The convergence of technology vectors in recent years, including the advancement in microprocessors, storage, networking, virtualization, and the cloud, has presented one disruptive shift after the other, empowering remarkable people and organizations to push the... Continue reading
Posted Mar 28, 2013 at Reflections
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Zahid Hussain, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Flash Products Division Flash has become ubiquitous. It is being deployed on PCIe cards in servers, in all-flash arrays that plug into storage networks, and in hybrid arrays in the form of solid-state drives (SSDs). But where is the best place to... Continue reading
Posted Mar 26, 2013 at Reflections
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Joe Tucci, Chairman and CEO EMC is squarely focused on three of the most important drivers in information technology for enterprise customers today: 1) the adoption of cloud computing to improve agility and reduce IT costs, 2) leveraging vast quantities of data to make smart decisions and uncover new business... Continue reading
Posted Mar 22, 2013 at Reflections
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Adrian McDonald, President EMEA, EMC Organisations are putting aside the retrenchment of the recession years and once again looking to IT to underpin the transformation and growth ambitions of their businesses. This is the clear takeaway from research conducted at EMC’s EMEA Forums in late 2012. More than 6,500 business... Continue reading
Posted Mar 20, 2013 at Reflections
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Bill Teuber, Vice Chairman A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to address a group of legislators, public officials, and industry leaders to launch Massachusetts’ inaugural Tech Hub Caucus, led by Senator Karen Spilka. The event kicked off a dialogue between leaders in the state’s tech sector and members... Continue reading
Posted Mar 18, 2013 at Reflections
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Paulo Prazeres, Senior Director of IT Finance Sometimes simple is just better, even when complex financial and IT strategies are at stake. So it wasn’t totally surprising that EMC IT’s simple approach to creating financial transparency for its transformation to IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) struck a positive note with financial leaders at... Continue reading
Posted Mar 14, 2013 at Reflections
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Stephen Manley, Chief Technology Officer, EMC Backup Recovery Systems Division While companies now understand that information drives their business, many have yet to consider the impact backup can have on their bottom line. IT organizations that drive a service-provider approach to backup can accelerate both IT and business initiatives. To... Continue reading
Posted Mar 11, 2013 at Reflections
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David Dimond, Chief Strategist, EMC Industry Solutions Group I’m excited to be attending this year's Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference where the intersection of healthcare and IT will be more prevalent than ever before. Big Data, of course, will play a prominent role this year. What... Continue reading
Posted Mar 6, 2013 at Reflections