Posts by Steve Todd

I’ve been delivering a series of posts that describe the approach that my company (EMC) is taking to guide innovation investment strategies. This approach is called Know Where You Are.…

In a previous post I described the formation of a global team that began gathering innovation data from EMC R&D teams around the world.  This team decided to start by…

In a previous post I introduced the “data gathering” aspect of a four-point innovation strategy to Know Where You Are. I discusses the creation of a Portfolio Intelligence team to…

In a previous post I discussed the “data gathering” aspect of an innovation strategy named "Know Where You Are". I recommended the creation of a Portfolio Intelligence team to gather…

In a previous post I described EMC’s historical innovation strategy. I then introduced an additional approach proposed by EMC’s Chief Technology Officer (John Roese). This strategy is called Know Where…

Recently I gave a keynote speech at NCTA, the North Carolina Technology Association. I was asked to start the conference by answering one question: How do market leaders sustain innovation?…

In a previous post I highlighted that certain application workloads (public cloud, web-scale, etc.) were pulling applications and data increasingly closer together. Is it possible for them to get any…

In a previous post I introduced the diagram below to emphasize that: a)      SANs introduced a shift in application nearness b)      Scale-out and mobile applications stretched this distance even further…